NPI strives to cultivate respect within our community for people of all abilities, ages, countries of origin, ethnicities, genders, gender expressions, races, religions, and sexual orientations.

NPI stands alongside our Black colleagues, clients and community members.  We stand with Indigenous colleagues, clients and community members.  We stand with other People of Color (Asian-American and Pacific Islanders, Latinx, and others) in our professions and our communities. 

We recognize that the intersection of race, gender, class and and other social locations and identities complicate and compound oppression in its many forms.

We face a national moment of reckoning as acts of violence against various communities play out on the national news.  This moment invites all therapists, and especially White therapists, to continue the work of understanding our own biases and complicity in systems of oppression.

In this way, we can be a refuge in the office and in our daily lives, while also working toward dismantling all forms of oppression. We are also being called upon to do our part in listening to, and raising up the voices of, those who have been fighting for equity in our systems of power for far too long.”

NPI welcomes and encourages ongoing discussion and feedback on how we can do this work most effectively. May all beings be free of suffering. ~ NPI Social Justice Committee.