About Treehouse Counseling
Mission Statement
Treehouse Counseling PLLC exists to foster wellness within our community by providing trauma-informed, culturally responsive mental healthcare to individuals and families. We aim to cultivate abundance within our community by empowering community members to move through the world with more intention, presence, and trust for both themselves and others.
Values
Connection
Playfulness
Social Justice
Interdependence
Dignity
Sustainability
Our Story & Vision
Treehouse Counseling PLLC was founded in 2026 by Natalie Wilcoxen and Rinn Packard. We are both clinical social workers who first became friends while working together in community mental health, where we supported children and families navigating a wide variety of challenges that were made more complex by the pervasive impacts of social, economic, and political marginalization. We came to recognize that in order to effectively serve those most impacted by forces of overt and systemic oppression, we as mental health providers must integrate community care and political resistance as necessary components of individual growth and emotional health.
So, we set out to develop a therapy practice that would explicitly honor the needs of the collective in addition to the needs of the individual. We envision a world in which our community lives in abundance rather than scarcity, connection rather than isolation, and hope rather than despair. We hope to nurture a community where no one has to feel alone or ashamed in asking for help.
What is a Therapy Co-Op?
Treehouse Counseling PLLC is governed using a cooperative business model, meaning it is a non-hierarchical and democratically-run worker-owned therapy practice. While clinicians maintain autonomy over decisions regarding their individual caseloads, all workers hold equal shares in the company and are thus granted equal voting power in decisions regarding business operations. This model prioritizes equitable business practices by eliminating power differentials that are common within most standard business models under capitalism.
Treehouse de-centers profit by compensating workers for both client and non-client facing work, which is made possible by clinicians equally sharing profits, operating costs, and administrative duties. This allows clinicians to keep caseloads at manageable sizes rather than taking on more clients simply to make ends meet. Smaller caseloads improve quality of client care by increasing the amount of time and energy clinicians are able to dedicate to each client both in and outside of session.