Empowering Relief Counseling, PLLC

Empowering relief is closing: 04/30/2024

To Our Beloved Community,

It is with a heavy heart that we write this letter to you today. After much consideration and reflection, we regret to inform you that our practice, Empowering Relief Counseling, PLLC, “ERC,” will be closing its doors due to unprecedented financial concerns on April 30th, 2024.

First and foremost, we want to express our heartfelt gratitude to each and every one of you who has been a part of our community over the years. Your trust, support, and loyalty have meant the world to us, and we are truly grateful for the opportunity to have worked alongside you.

Throughout our time together, we have witnessed the resilience and strength of this community in the face of challenges big and small. Your unwavering support has been a source of inspiration for us, and it is with a profound sense of gratitude that we say thank you. Due, in part, to your support, ERC has been able to consistently uphold its intent to “affirm, connect, and empower” hundreds of families since our doors opened in 2017. We have spent much of our 7 year story working to take tangible actions toward decolonization, promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion for our community as a whole, but specifically for marginalized individuals.

While this may be the end of one chapter, we hope that it will not be the end of our connection with each of you. ERC may no longer be physically present, but our collective commitment to supporting and serving this community remains as strong as ever.

As we navigate this transition, we encourage you to reach out to us with any questions or concerns you may have. Our website will remain “LIVE” with contact information for each practitioner for several months after closure and our team will be available to assist you in any way we can during this time of change.

Once again, we extend our deepest thanks to all of you for your support and understanding. It has been an honor and a privilege to be a part of this community, and we will cherish the memories and relationships we have built together.

With warm regards and heartfelt thanks,

Amanda & Jacob, Co-Founders & The ERC Team

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The therapists and staff at Empowering Relief Counseling, “ERC,” acknowledge the land we practice on at 5814 South 900 East in Murray, Utah, is named for the ancestral home of the Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Goshute, and Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute) Tribes.

We recognize the intersectional identities of those who are Indigenous or Indigenous and Queer, along with the disparities they face from systemic oppression. We recognize the toll this takes on one’s mental health, relationships, and overall well-being. We honor the individual and layered identities of our clients. Period.

To do this in a continued way, ERC therapists and staff “do the work” needed to examine privilege, hold self-awareness, and work through discomfort, so that we can better serve the American Indian and Alaska Native people that we serve.

To learn more about the Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Goshute, and Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute) Tribes, click below:

Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone)

Goshute

Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute)

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The therapists and staff at Empowering Relief Counseling, PLLC acknowledge the land we practice on in Murray, Utah, is the traditional and ancestral home of the Eastern Shoshone, Goshute, and Ute Tribes.

Credit to: Michelle Sanchez, MSW, LCSW of https://michellesanchezlcsw.clientsecure.me/

Dear BIPOC & 2SLGTBQIA+ Communities,

Welcome to ERC! We are so glad that your search landed you here. ERC is on a mission to:

1. Offer acknowledgement, advocacy, and continued reparations to BIPOC & 2SLGTBQIA+ individuals.

2. Provide clinical services to improve skills, encourage healthy processing, build on strengths, and facilitate growth. ERC is committed to affirming, connecting, and empowering care to foster positive relationships with self, family, and community.

We are here to witness your experiences from a place of non-judgement, to acknowledge systemic racism and generational trauma, and to leave you feeling slightly better after each contact with us. You are important to us. Who you love is important to us. Because Lizzo has a way with words that we don’t, we will quote her here, “In case nobody told you today: you’re special. In case nobody made you believe; you’re special. Well, [we] will always love you the same; you’re special. [We’re] so glad that you’re still with us.”

We promise to seek social justice and decolonize our practice in honor of you. We love you and we believe that the world is a more wonderful place because you’re in it! You matter and you are enough exactly as you are - in this moment.

Love, Empowering Relief Counseling “ERC’s” Therapists & Staff

Empowering Relief Counseling, PLLC

Empowering relief is closing: 04/30/2024

To Our Beloved Community,

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