Starobin Counseling: Our Values
MISSION STATEMENT
Starobin Counseling’s mission is to guide individuals, couples, and families of all ages, cultural backgrounds, and neurodiverse profiles in their own processes of repairing relationship challenges that stand in the way of living fully, relationally, and authentically.
VISION STATEMENT
Starobin Counseling aims to repair the world one person, one couple, one family, one group at a time. We regard counseling as a practice of contextualization. We enter work with clients not only with respect for their own unique life histories but also with regard to challenges they present as participants in their dynamic, ongoing relationships with others.
ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
Starobin Counseling encourages a collaborative team where colleagues listen closely, invest themselves in the practice of therapy, and maintain high ethical standards not only for their clients but for each other in the practice.
WHAT NEURODIVERSITY-AFFIRMING
MEANS TO US
We address ableism and internalized ableism in compassionate and firm ways with ourselves, first, and in our work with individuals, couples, families, and groups.
We promote sensory security.
We provide scaffolding for executive function differences and challenges and collaborate with other professionals to that end.
We pay attention to affirming language with a client-centered approach.
We use a neurobiological framework and understanding of neuroscience to teach and reinforce emotion regulation.
We presume competence, strengths, and resilience.
We empower people to embrace neurobiological and developmental differences without manipulation.
We embrace complexity with knowledge, skill, compassion, and humility.
We validate neurodivergent lived experience and invite positive exploration of a person’s neurobiology.
We promote accountability to oneself and in relationships with scaffolding and support and understanding of brain differences.
We use a trauma-informed approach paying attention to safety, trustworthiness and transparency, opportunities for peer and community support, collaboration and mutuality, empowerment and choice, and cultural, historical, gender, sexual, and family of origin context.