The traditional, institutional approach to mental health and wellness doesn’t work for everyone.
Before she founded BLND, Brooke Buys was a social worker struggling to bring her clients the support, resources, and care they needed within the confusing, restrictive maze of the traditional mental health care system.
Brooke began to dream up a different kind of therapy experience: a blend (BLND) of different offerings, theoretical frameworks, and modalities made to fit each unique person instead of expecting the person to fit into the system.
And then she made it happen.
Welcome to BLND Health.
We’re here to make therapy work for you, no matter who you are or what you’re going through.
We build our services around you at every step of your journey—all with the intent to help you create a better everyday life.
Who We Are
Our team is made up of full-time licensed therapists, graduate student interns, and performance consulting.
We exist to develop real relationships with our clients and embed social work values within our communities to promote real change in mental health care. Our vision is to compassionately disrupt the current mental health system.
Our Philosophy: Person-Centered Care
The goal of Person-Centered Care is to create the necessary conditions for clients to engage in meaningful self-exploration of their feelings, beliefs, behavior, and worldview. We do this to assist clients in their growth process, supporting them to cope with current and future challenges (Carl Rogers, Humanistic Psychologist).
A major key concept of this philosophy is that the attitudes and characteristics of the therapist — and the quality of the client-therapist relationship — are prime determinants of the outcome of the therapeutic process.
We believe that practitioners must have three attributes to create a growth-promoting climate in which individuals can move forward and become capable of becoming their true self:
Congruence (aka, genuineness and realness)
Unconditional positive regard (aka, acceptance and caring)
Accurate empathetic understanding (aka, an ability to deeply grasp the subjective world of another person)