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Equality for All

EMH condemns any form of prejudice and oppression including but not limited to racism, sexism, ageism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, nationalism, xenophobia, ableism, audism, and religious prejudice. We are affirmative of neurodiversity. Learn more about EMH’s orientation to cultural humility and antiracism here.

Cultural Humility

Equilibrium Mental Health (EMH) is honored to provide mental health services to clients from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. EMH staff acknowledges the role of cultural competence in understanding and helping clients from such differing cultural backgrounds. Indeed, human beings are unique and may possess differing cultural aspects across race, ethnicity, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, ableness, neurodiversity, religion, spirituality, and physical appearance. Indeed, the sociological concept of intersectionality, or the idea that people carry multiple aspects of different parts of their identity that could contribute to both privilege and discrimination, is present through our cultural lens of the world.

Similarly, culture can be complicated, with many layers of experiences and differences from person-to-person. As a result, EMH providers adhere to a lifelong pursuit to understand and learn from others’ different cultural backgrounds. In other words, our multicultural education is not simply a fact-based exercise, but a fiercely committed analysis in identifying implicit biases both internally and externally. To do so, EMH practices cultural humility.

Commitment to Anti-Racism

Dismantling systemic racism and thwarting the oppressive forces that work to maintain racial inequity is no easy job. EMH celebrates diversity, human dignity, mutual respect, safety, equity, and inclusivity. We also seek to identify the implicit biases, however seemingly invisible, that contribute to the barriers that obstruct black communities’ access to equal and fair healthcare.

Equilibrium Mental Health (EMH) is committed to the delivery of state-of-the-art mental health services to children, adolescents, and families while maintaining an actively antiracist stance. Anti-racism refers to actions taken against racial hatred, bias, and systemic racism. In part, an antiracist worldview also works to identify racist systems of oppression and strategies to promote racial equity.

In psychotherapy, EMH providers routinely recommend that clients perform their own work towards their recovery and treatment needs. Policy now parallels clinical practice: EMH approaches their own antiracist “work” with openness and willingness to examine the role of privilege and social positionality as it relates to client care. To weed out implicit bias, EMH providers engage in several antiracist practices:

Obtain direct and ongoing education related to antiracist initiatives to bolster the deconstruction of prejudice attitudes, values, and beliefs that contribute to systemic racism.
Celebrate diversity across race, class, gender identity, sex, ableness, ethnicity, spirituality, religion, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, nationality, and communication differences. EMH is committed to diversifying the social makeup of our staff, to reflect the rich and varying nature of humankind.
Support our staff to engage in various levels of introspection and communication to identify implicit racial and ethnic biases that impact care.

We take pride in being trauma-informed, or understanding the impact of traumatic stress on a person’s day-to-day life and clinical care. It is EMH’s belief that one cannot be trauma-informed without also being actively antiracist.