Mission Statement
HEALING • LIBERATION • SCHOLARSHIP • HEALING • LIBERATION • SCHOLARSHIP • HEALING • LIBERATION • SCHOLARSHIP •
Services
The Rooted Path Institute aspires to be a premier space where adolescents receive historically grounded, culturally affirming therapy, and where provisionally licensed counselors are challenged and equipped to move beyond surface-level multicultural competency into a deeply informed, liberatory clinical practice.
In practice, that means two things: therapy that treats your teen's story as context, not pathology - and supervision that treats your clinical training as something worth interrogating, not just completing.
The Work
The Rooted Path Institute envisions a mental health field that moves beyond performative diversity toward an unflinching reckoning with white supremacy's role in shaping psychological theory and practice - and that actively employs liberatory, culturally grounded frameworks in service of the mental and collective healing of BIPOC communities.
Future Clinicians
Through a supervisory experience that is both affirming and rigorously challenging, The Rooted Path Institute aims to embolden current and future counselors to carry the principle of Sankofa into every aspect of their clinical identity - understanding that to move forward as a healing practitioner, one must first be willing to look back.
That's the whole point of Rigorous Compassion: you'll be held with real warmth here, and you'll also be pushed. Both, always - never one without the other.
Core Values
Historical Consciousness
RPI honors the historical roots of trauma and resilience, ensuring clinical practice is grounded in the realities of BIPOC communities.
Liberation
RPI's mission is to confront the racially biased foundations of Western psychology and center the liberation of BIPOC families.
Sankofa
RPI is grounded in the principle of returning to the past to reclaim what was forgotten, fostering a healing and liberatory clinical practice.
Cultural Humility
RPI centers the healing and wellness of BIPOC communities, affirming the unique identities of our clients.
Community
RPI builds bridges within and across communities, fostering connections that support collective growth and healing for all.
Rigorous Compassion
RPI combines deep empathy with a rigorous scholarly foundation, ensuring that every interaction is both compassionate and evidence-based.