Our Mission

TAC offers careful, intentional, justice-oriented application of evidence-based care. We think a case conceptualization should include an explicit consideration of the social, cultural, political, structural, and institutional forces that come into play for a client, and they should inform our treatment plans. All of our care is HAES-aligned and uses a harm reduction lens.

We are committed to the idea of concientización – that political consciousness-raising and community pride can be powerful interventions. We believe in a psychology that’s from marginalized populations and not merely for marginalized populations.

According to the most recent data from the American Psychological Association, 83% of American psychologists are White, 4% Asian, 3% Black, and 7% Latinx. Demographic surveys show that 95% of American psychologists are able-bodied.

It was only in March 2021 that the APA adopted a resolution against coercive effects to change individual’s gender identity, i.e. trans “conversion” therapy. The vast majority of American psychologists are white, cisgender, heterosexual, able-bodied, non-immigrants who have the social, structural, and financial support to get a doctorate degree.

This is not representative of our communities.

TAC believes that a key to increasing justice in psychology is changing the face of the field. We aim to develop and promote the careers of psychologists and psychologists-in-training who hold marginalized identities through advanced training and mentorship.

We pay fair wages, and our doctoral students are provided with paid advanced training every year. This helps our clinicians be maximally effective serving our communities and helps promote the careers of doctoral students who might not otherwise have access to the most specialized (and expensive) training. TAC believes that improving the pipeline for doctoral students means a more diverse field of psychologist in the future.