Indigenous people have lived in what we call the Americas for thousands of years. By the time European colonizers arrived in 1492, millions of indigenous people (scholarly estimates range from 4-20 million people) lived in what is now North America. It’s estimated that more than 50 indigenous nations lived in and around current-day Houston, although specific population numbers are hard to determine. European colonization and its attempted genocide of indigenous people, their cultures, and identity left a deep imprint on this land. Despite this, about 70,000 Indigenous people live in the Houston area today.

In honor of these communities and in recognition of the systemic cruelty and violence enacted on them, we acknowledge that our therapy sessions will be held in buildings and parks that currently occupy the ancestral lands of the Ishak (Atakapa), Sana, Coahuiltecan, and Karankawa people. We pay our due respect to elders both past and present.