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How we're different
We are a cooperative.
That means shared ownership, shared responsibility, and shared care. Our therapists co-regulate with each other and make decisions collectively, ensuring our clients benefit from an ecosystem of support rather than only a single provider.
We validate your reality.
Our work is not just about helping you cope with your thoughts. It’s about naming the systems and addressing intergenerational history that impacts you and walking with you as you find your own point of empowerment.
We serve as we are.
We are resisters and show up as full humans, not as experts perched above our clients. This opens up a level of vulnerability and trust that many clients have never experienced in mental health care.
We provide barrier-free support.
Whether that means offering sliding scale options, telehealth sessions, peer referrals, or cultural congruence in care, we strive to make healing accessible, affirming, and non-pathologizing.
Where we started...
As the first cooperatively owned therapy practice in Michigan, Imani ya Kupinga (IYK) operates from a model that values liberation, justice, collective care, and non-hierarchical relationships. Our therapists are not only providers; many are also worker-owners who co-create the structure and vision of the practice enabling accountability to each other, our clients, and the communities we serve.
We know what it’s like to navigate systems that were never built with us in mind because we’ve lived it, too. Therefore, we intentionally disrupt the idea that therapists must be authoritarian, prescriptive or detached from society or our clients to be effective. Instead, we show up with authenticity, transparency, and care. Our clients see humans who are willing to be present and real with them.
