1708 Peachtree St. NE, Atlanta, GA 30309 • 315 W. Ponce de Leon Ave, Decatur, GA 30030
(404) 565-4385 |
About the Aguirre Center for Inclusive Psychotherapy
Inclusive, Affirming Therapy in Atlanta, GA
Our Philosophy & Core Values
Culturally Responsive
At Aguirre Center for Inclusive Psychotherapy, we believe therapy should be a place where every part of you is welcomed, respected, and understood. We are an Atlanta-based group psychotherapy practice offering culturally responsive, trauma-informed therapy for adults, couples, families, children, and therapists seeking deeper healing, connection, and self-understanding.
Our practice was founded from the belief that mental health care is most effective when it honors the full complexity of your lived experience — including your culture, identities, relationships, family history, community, and the systems that shape your life.
We provide inclusive therapy in Atlanta and virtually throughout Georgia, creating affirming spaces for BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, Latinx, immigrant, neurodivergent, and marginalized communities who have often struggled to find therapy that truly feels safe, relational, and culturally attuned. Our care is sex-positive, trauma-informed, weight-inclusive, feminist-informed, and welcoming of LGBTQ+, Kink, and Polyamory/Consensual Non-Monogamy communities.
Our work is deeply influenced by Liberation Psychology and decolonized therapy. We recognize that healing cannot happen in isolation from the historical and systemic forces—such as colonialism, racism, and white supremacy—that shape our collective and individual experiences. A decolonized approach allows us to challenge dominant Western frameworks, center clients’ cultural wisdom, and affirm practices that restore connection, community, and ancestral resilience.
We understand how difficult it can be to search for a therapist who genuinely understands your experience — especially when previous therapeutic spaces may have felt invalidating, disconnected, or culturally unaware. Our goal is to create a practice where clients feel less alone and more fully seen.
We approach therapy with cultural humility, curiosity, warmth, and deep respect for each client’s story.
Anti-Oppressive &
Anti-Racist
The Aguirre Center for Inclusive Psychotherapy (ACIP) is a Latinx-owned practice built on principles of anti-oppression and anti-racism. We believe that simply claiming to be "not racist" falls far short; instead, we are committed to actively being anti-discrimination, anti-oppression, and anti-racist. Our dedication to dismantling institutional racism, white supremacy, and other oppressive systems spans every level of our practice—from our policies and procedures to our organizational culture and clinical work. To support this mission, our therapists engage in ongoing education and courageous conversations that deepen our understanding of our own experiences with power, privilege, and oppression. We believe as ethical mental health clinicians that we must continually consider and self-reflect on the following:
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Where do I hold privilege and how might these areas affect my work?
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How have these cultural influences shaped who I am, how I see myself, how I see my clients, and how my clients see me?
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How have they influenced my comfort level with other groups?
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What kind of assumptions might be made regarding my visible identities? How have I made assumptions about other visible identities?
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How can I go about seeking spaces to further develop my awareness of biases that may exist because of my privileged identities?
We are committed to creating a courageous, informed, and supportive environment where both clients and therapists can explore identity and the profound impacts of culture, society, power, and oppression. As individuals and as a collective team, we consistently strive to embody our core values of inclusion, anti-oppression, and cultural humility in every aspect of our work. We recognize that, as part of this ongoing journey, we may sometimes fall short or make mistakes that are misaligned with our values and intentions. In those moments, we remain dedicated to humility, openness, and a willingness to receive feedback. We embrace discomfort as an opportunity for reflection, growth, and making necessary corrections to foster healing and repair.
Weight-Inclusive Therapy in Atlanta
At ACIP, we affirm the values body liberation: we believe that ALL bodies are worthy and ALL bodies are deserving of compassionate, inclusive healthcare. We believe that YOU are an expert of your own body and that your body has the right exist just as it is. Unfortunately, many people with marginalized bodies frequently experience body policing in our society, particularly those that are fat, racialized, trans, queer, gender non-conforming or disabled. Our clinicians utilize a social justice lens that promotes fat acceptance and body liberation by examining the detrimental impact of sizism, sexism, transphobia, ableism and racism on both individual and societal levels. Body liberation can mean:
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Rejecting societies narrow ideals of beauty
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Taking back control over how your body “should” be
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Giving yourself permission to live unapologetically in your own body
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Releasing the belief that your worth is based on your weight
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Promoting the understanding that no one can know another person’s health or abilities just by looking at them
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Speaking out against body shaming, ableism, and and body-based discrimination
We are committed to cultivating affirming, trauma-informed healing spaces that honors our clients' individual definition of health and wellness. Our clinical approaches are informed by Health at Every Size principles which include celebrating body diversity, promoting weight/size-inclusivity and advocating for critical awareness cultural messages, structural and systemic forces, and scientific assumptions that contribute to fat-shaming, and fat phobia. We are passionate about helping our clients develop healthier relationships with their body and with food.
Land Acknowledgement
At the Aguirre Center for Inclusive Psychotherapy, we believe it is important to acknowledge those who came before us, those who walk alongside us today, and those who will come after us in future generations. Our offices in Atlanta and Decatur, Georgia are located on the ancestral and stolen homelands of the Muscogee (Creek) people.
Before their forced removal by the United States government, the Muscogee people lived throughout what are now known as Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and South Carolina, sustaining sophisticated societies rich in art, music, ceremony, agriculture, architecture, trade, and community governance through the Muscogee Creek Confederacy. We honor the painful history of colonization, forced displacement, genocide, and the countless lives impacted and lost during the Trail of Tears.
We gratefully acknowledge the Muscogee people on whose ancestral lands we gather, as well as the diverse Native and Indigenous communities who continue to live, work, and build community here today. As a center committed to healing, liberation, and justice, we are honored to offer care and connection on these traditional Indigenous homelands, and we remain committed to ongoing reflection, learning, and accountability in how we engage with this history and its lasting impact.
