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Valuing Lived Experience in our professionals
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Phippsian Comprehensive Counseling
What is Phippsian Comprehensive Counseling and why do we practice it? Learn about Rachel’s decolonizing thru divestment info sessions for therapists and more!
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Meet Our Counselors
Read a bit about each of our counselors and find who may be the right match for you!
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Mind-Body Somatic Therapy
Under the Rainbow Collective is a Somatics-based practice that values the connection between the mind and the body in mental health care.
Phippsian comprehensive Counsling
Photograph of Mamie Phipps Clark
What is Phippsian Comprehensive Counseling?
Who was Dr. Mamie Phipps Clark?
Dr. Mamie Phipps Clark was the first Black woman to earn her Ph.D in experimental psychology in 1942. Most well known for her work with her husband, Kenneth Clark, on “the doll study” used in Brown vs. the Board of Education that led to the end of segregated schools.
Dr. Mamie Phipps Clark studied prejudice and low self-esteem in children of minorities, particularly Black children. She found that these children needed a strength-based and more of a holistic comprehensive approach to therapy and community care than the Psychoanalysis treatment that was most prominent at the time.
Valuing Lived Experience
SURC therapists not only have education and training in their specialties, but come with personal experience. SURC believes the best way to provide truly trauma-informed care is by connecting clients with a therapist who has personal experience processing what our clients come to us to work through.
For more on the individual lived experience of our counselors to help you find the right match, see our Meet the Counselors page.
Mind-Body somatics
What is Somatic Therapy?
Somatic therapy encompasses many trauma-informed mind-body practices. It allows for body-based modalities, combined with psychology, to help heal the body as a whole. At SURC, we use Somatic therapy to focus on the mind-body connection, intentionally weaving body work into sessions when appropriate. This may look like joyful movement, guided meditation, or the exploration of sensory sensations, emotions, or memories.