Inner Justice Works provides high-quality psychotherapy, specializing in gender care and trauma treatment, for community members holding oppressed identities and marginalized experiences. We are currently in process of transforming from a for-profit small business to a worker self-directed nonprofit agency.
Mission Statement:
Inner Justice Works seeks to both support individual trauma survivors who hold oppressed experiences, and also impact at the structural level some of the policies, systems, and institutions that contribute most directly to continued harm and trauma in the lives of our clients and the communities they call home.
We do this through providing direct social work services and mental healthcare, and also by engaging directly in systems change and advocacy work, to better embody solidarity with the survivors we serve at the root level.
Vision Statement
We envision a world in which social location, identity, and community of origin are not social determinants of health. We work for a world in which there is both equitable access to care for all, and one in which the rates of exposure to trauma, violence, and harm are reduced through tackling oppression at its root.
We embrace the values of…
abolitionist social work practice
Anti-racist social work practice
collaborative and integrative care
multisystemic and holistic interventions
decarcerated care and transformative justice
informed consent and bodily autonomy
harm reduction and client-led and client-centered care.
We challenge ourselves daily to better understand and meet the needs of oppressed survivors — in particular, trans and nonbinary survivors, BIPOC survivors, poor and low-income or working class survivors, d/Disabled survivors, sex workers and other survivors engaged in criminalized or survival economies, survivors in recovery from addictions, survivors of the criminal punishment system or other forms of State violence, survivors living in bodies of size, survivors of human trafficking and organized abuse, and others often overlooked and harmed in clinical settings.
Theory of Change
Inner Justice Works uses a multisystemic, holistic, integrative care model to address the clinical effects of trauma and mental health challenges amongst marginalized and oppressed people, and also to improve access to care that is clinically robust, culturally appropriate, and honoring of each person’s unique identity within their community and world.
To achieve this outcome, we offer social work services at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels, enabling us to support oppressed survivors while also affecting changes to society and our world that reduce the overall exposure of community members to trauma, violence, and harm at the structural level.
We aim to offer care to survivors — to improve access to healing services that are high quality and culturally responsive; while also impacting the systems contributing to disproportionate rates of trauma exposure amongst oppressed and marginalized communities.
Our aim is to both: serve our individual clients with the highest quality care, and to empower the folks we support to participate more fully in their communities, in service of a more just world for everyone.
What We Do:
Clinical Psychotherapy
individual (adult / youth)
Family / Relationship
Groups
Virtual, In-Office, Home-Based, and Community-Based
Immediate cash assistance for active clients facing urgent survival threat, or urgent financial barriers to accessing treatment (housing, food, ongoing abuse + exploitation, and other survival threats)
Clinicians accompany our most isolated, disconnected clients to community events, to support their ability to build natural supports, find community, and establish confidence through in-vivo relationship-building, increasing their confidence in assessing and maximizing safety, to more fully participate in an often-unsafe the world.
Inner Justice Works 
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