Our Mission
At A Path With Heart, we help our clients to improve their health, happiness, and peace of mind. We inspire our clients to grow towards their highest potential, in all life arenas. In the process, we create a healing environment that is fun, fulfilling, and enriching for everyone on our team.
Our Values
We Value: Caring, Connection, Competency, and Congruence in our service with clients.
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We cultivate an attitude of service. Appreciating and caring for the clients we serve. We care enough to consistently provide our clients with inspired support and honest accountability that is needed for positive change.
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We build and maintain a healing connection and a therapeutic bond with the clients we serve. This connection is authentic and allows for compassionate and courageous conversations to promote positive change.
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We currently have, or we obtain the experience, skills and wisdom to help our clients heal and grow towards their highest potential in all life arenas.
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We are authentic, transparent and genuine in the therapeutic relationship. Being congruent means that we do our best to live as role models of possibility and potential. We recognize that who we are, and how we live our lives, is more important to the clients we serve than anything we say. In other words, we walk our talk!
Our Philosophy and Approach
Client-Centered Services
Our practice is called A Path With Heart for a reason. How we treat our clients makes all the difference to them, their families, our community, and our planet. Clients often come to us with many challenges. They need insight to learn new skills, and to build resiliency and self-efficacy. They want to make changes to improve their quality of lives.
When it comes to making a difference in our client's lives, effective interventions and expertise are important. However, our clients won’t let us help them if they don’t feel like we care about them.
If we care deeply about our clients, they will feel it, and a therapeutic connection will be much easier to establish. Research shows that the strength of connection between the therapist and the client is the 2nd most important element needed to facilitate positive change for the client. The most important element needed to facilitate change is the willingness and desire of the client.
Unfortunately, some healthcare practices and providers lose their way. They start to believe that they are doing the client a favor by taking them on as a client. That attitude can lead to clients being treated as unimportant, unheard, and uncared for. It can be tempting when you are experienced, and in high demand, to lose your humility and service mindset. There can be a tendency to forget the very special opportunity you have as a therapist to deeply connect with another Soul and awaken the client to the awesome potential that is often dormant within them, even though they may have long forgotten their potential, or perhaps, never realized they had it to begin with.
From Insight to Action: From Awareness to Application
Our practice is called A Path With Heart for a reason. How we treat our clients makes all the difference to them, their families, our community, and our planet. Clients often come to us with many challenges. They need insight to learn new skills, and to build resiliency and self-efficacy. They want to make changes to improve their quality of lives.
When it comes to making a difference in our client's lives, effective interventions and expertise are important. However, our clients won’t let us help them if they don’t feel like we care about them.
If we care deeply about our clients, they will feel it, and a therapeutic connection will be much easier to establish. Research shows that the strength of connection between the therapist and the client is the 2nd most important element needed to facilitate positive change for the client. The most important element needed to facilitate change is the willingness and desire of the client.
Unfortunately, some healthcare practices and providers lose their way. They start to believe that they are doing the client a favor by taking them on as a client. That attitude can lead to clients being treated as unimportant, unheard, and uncared for. It can be tempting when you are experienced, and in high demand, to lose your humility and service mindset. There can be a tendency to forget the very special opportunity you have as a therapist to deeply connect with another Soul and awaken the client to the awesome potential that is often dormant within them, even though they may have long forgotten their potential, or perhaps, never realized they had it to begin with.
Inspiring Positive Change
The word, “Psyche” is used as a prefix in psychology and psychotherapy, but Psyche in its original Greek means of the Soul. Psyche was the Greek Goddess/Healer of the Soul. When we connect with a client at the deepest level, that connection often awakens something profound within them. A sleeping giant that has been dormant and yearning to be expressed.
Unlike most other healthcare providers, we have a special opportunity to connect with our clients beyond their problems so that we can help them either overcome their problems or transcend them! Clients can feel whether you care about them or not, and in a therapeutic relationship, it makes all the difference if you care! No caring, no connection. No connection, no positive change.
How We Treat Clients
We treat clients with respect, dignity, attention, and care. We work for them. We are here to help serve their needs. Their needs are important. Their feelings are important. We strive to treat our clients as welcome guests.
For a lot of people, it is a big step to see a new therapist or health care provider. Many clients are nervous, apprehensive, and anxious. All have questions, but many are afraid to ask those questions. Once in the office and face to face with the client, it can be helpful to simply ask the client if they have any questions for you, and answer their questions, before you start asking them questions.
When we ask clients, at the start of their first session, what questions we can answer for them, it conveys three important things to the client: First, that their needs are important to us. Second, that this will be a collaborative process. Third, it gives clients a sense of agency and ownership over the process.
It’s also helpful for us as therapists. A client’s initial questions will often reveal their underlying concerns, their motives, and their issues. In other words, it’s an efficient way to get to the essence of what’s most important to the client, while identifying the obstacles that they perceive to resolving those issues.
What all clients want to know is this: “Can I trust you to help me? And can you help me?” Until these questions are resolved by a client, not in our mind, but in the client’s mind, they won’t fully trust you enough to form a therapeutic bond.
Once a client believes you care and believes you can help them, a therapeutic bond is established. When that therapeutic bond combines with the client’s innate desire for healing and self-realization, a transformative awakening can happen within the client. At that point, we transition from an active facilitator to a supportive witness.
Our Culture: What do we Believe and What do we Cultivate?
We believe in only hiring professionals who are healthy, caring, and competent. This helps us to maintain a healthy environment with high standards, while avoiding unnecessary drama and micromanagement. We are discerning with the people we invite into our culture.
We believe in having independence and autonomy over our own schedules. We have the freedom to decide when we work, how much we work, with whom we work with and how we work.
We believe a collaborative and supportive team of professionals is better than a hierarchical top-down system of supervisors and subordinates.
We believe in direct communication and transparency. We are brave enough to have the conversation.
We believe in spending 10% of our time complaining about the problem, and 90% of our time working towards collaborative solutions. Issues are going to arise. We approach issues with a positive, collaborative, and solution-focused mindset. Resolving issues and problems collaboratively and transparently is how we grow as professionals and as an organization.
We believe in maintaining a chill and positive environment to work in. We believe working at A Path With Heart should feel fulfilling, enriching and fun. If it doesn’t, we work together to make it so.
We believe leadership is an opportunity for service that is based in “power-with,” not an opportunity for authority that is based in “power-over.”
We believe in being super ethical and making sure we go home each day with our integrity intact.
We believe we are a health care service first and foremost and a health care business second. Our North Star is caring for and inspiring people. While remaining economically viable is necessary, our most important bottom line is how well we take care of our clients, ourselves and each other.
We believe in being congruent. We do our best to attend to our own health, happiness and wellbeing at least as much as we attend to the health, happiness and wellbeing of the clients we serve.
We believe that tending to people is more important than tending to profits. We pay our professionals as much as possible, whilst maintaining the financial health and stability of the practice. Pay is weekly, whether the practice is paid or not, and we offer opportunities for significant monthly bonuses for our professionals who choose to work with at least 26 clients per week.
We believe in equitable compensation. Every clinical therapist on staff, including the owner of the practice, is paid the same amount per client and has the same bonus structure.
We believe in creating a nurturing, comfortable and inspiring healing space for ourselves and our clients.
We believe that the only mistakes are the mistakes we don’t learn from.
Ethical Practice Guidelines for A Path With Heart Therapists
Licensure Compliance
Adhere to all ethical standards and statutes established by the licensing board governing your professional credential.
Confidentiality
Safeguard clients’ privacy and sensitive information at all times.
Disclose information only with client consent, when legally mandated (e.g., risk of harm to self or others), or as permitted under HIPAA.
Informed Consent
Clearly communicate the nature of therapy, including goals, methods, risks, and potential outcomes.
Ensure clients understand and voluntarily agree to the therapeutic process before initiating services.
Professional Competence
Provide services within the scope of your education, training, and experience.
Pursue ongoing professional development to maintain and enhance clinical competence.
Non-Discrimination
Treat all clients with dignity and respect, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or other personal attributes.
Actively avoid bias, prejudice, or discriminatory behavior in clinical practice.
Boundaries
Maintain clear and appropriate professional boundaries with clients, avoiding dual relationships (e.g., social, familial, financial).
Respect client autonomy and never exploit the therapeutic relationship for personal gain.
Client Autonomy
Support clients in making their own decisions and exercising self-determination.
Honor clients’ right to choose their path, even when it diverges from clinical recommendations.
Avoiding Harm
Act in ways that promote client safety, well-being, and empowerment.
Remain vigilant to potential harm or exploitation and take proactive steps to prevent it.
Professional Integrity
Uphold honesty, transparency, and accountability in all professional interactions.
Disclose any potential conflicts of interest and avoid situations that compromise ethical practice.
Cultural Sensitivity
Recognize and respect the cultural, social, and personal factors that shape clients’ experiences.
Adapt therapeutic approaches to honor clients’ diverse backgrounds and identities.
Supervision and Consultation
Seek supervision or consultation when navigating complex clinical issues or ethical dilemmas.
Remain open to feedback and engage in reflective practice to support ethical decision-making.
Duty to Report
Report suspected abuse, neglect, or other threats to client safety in accordance with legal mandates.
Follow ethical protocols when making mandatory reports to protect all parties involved.
Termination and Referral
Conclude therapy in a manner that prioritizes client well-being, providing adequate notice and appropriate referrals.
Prevent abandonment by ensuring clients have access to necessary resources and support.
Professional Communication
Communicate with clients, colleagues, and other professionals in a clear, respectful, and honest manner.
Maintain accurate, timely, and confidential documentation.
Ethical Use of Technology
Ensure that digital platforms, telehealth services, and online communications are secure, private, and compliant with ethical standards.
Maintain professional boundaries and confidentiality in virtual or remote settings.
Trauma-Informed Practice
Recognize the impact of trauma on clients’ lives and tailor interventions to avoid re-traumatization.
Foster safety, trust, collaboration, empowerment, and choice throughout the therapeutic process.
Neurodiversity-Affirming Care
Respect neurodivergent identities and avoid pathologizing differences in cognition, communication, or behavior.
Adapt therapeutic approaches to support executive functioning, sensory needs, and processing styles.
Accessibility and Accommodation
Ensure services are accessible to clients with disabilities or other barriers, including offering flexible formats, communication styles, and physical access.
Proactively offer accommodations and seek feedback on accessibility needs.
Continuity of Care
Collaborate with other providers to support seamless transitions and consistent care.
Share relevant information ethically and legally to promote client stability and well-being.
Ethical Supervision
Provide supervision that aligns with licensure standards, promotes professional growth, and protects client welfare.
Maintain clear boundaries, documentation, and accountability in supervisory relationships.
Social Responsibility
Be aware of systemic factors affecting mental health, including oppression, marginalization, and inequity.
Advocate for practices and policies that promote justice, inclusion, and community well-being.