GroveIn their own words
Miriam Okafor
Grief Counselor · 4 years at Grove
The week I moved into my room here, a client told me she'd driven forty minutes because my sliding-scale rate was the only thing that fit her budget after rent. I'd been about to raise my rates. Having a room that costs me less than half what I paid before — that one conversation hasn't happened since. I kept my rates where they needed to be.
"Having a room that costs me less than half what I paid before."
Daniel Reyes
Somatic Bodyworker · 2 years at Grove
I used to see clients in my apartment. There was no separation — the work lived where I slept. The first session I held in my Grove room, I noticed my own shoulders drop the moment I crossed the threshold. If I can't regulate, I can't model regulation. That sounds clinical. What it felt like was: I finally had a door I could close behind me at the end of the day.
"I finally had a door I could close behind me at the end of the day."
Yuki Tanaka
Licensed Therapist, Trauma Specialist · 3 years at Grove
My clients are survivors. The sensory environment matters enormously — what a room smells like, whether the chair is soft, whether the light is harsh. Before Grove I was renting by the hour in spaces that smelled like commercial cleaning fluid. Here, I chose my curtains. I chose the lamp. I brought in the rug. My clients notice. Two of them have told me the room itself felt like being believed.
"My clients notice. Two of them told me the room felt like being believed."
Celeste Nguyen
Child & Adolescent Therapist · 5 years at Grove
I work with teenagers who've never once had a safe adult in their life. The first thing they test is whether the space itself is safe — whether it's been thought about. The sand tray in the corner, the fidget things on the windowsill, the fact that you can't hear the hallway through the door. None of that happens if I'm scrambling to cover rent. Grove made it possible for me to think about the room instead of about the bill.
"Grove made it possible for me to think about the room instead of the bill."
Tobias Brennan
Grief & Loss Counselor · 18 months at Grove
I came to Grove six months after my own therapist retired. I was grieving that, too, in a way. What I found was that the tea kitchen isn't incidental — it's part of the container. Clients arrive shaky and they make tea. They hold the cup. Something shifts before we even sit down. I've watched it happen hundreds of times now. A shared kitchen in a therapy space sounds small until you've seen what it does.
"A shared kitchen sounds small until you've seen what it does."
Priya Sharma
EMDR Therapist · 3 years at Grove
EMDR requires a very specific kind of quiet. Not just low noise — the absence of the feeling that noise might arrive. In my first year of practice I turned down clients who needed EMDR because I couldn't guarantee the space. That's not a small thing to carry. The soundproofing at Grove is the reason I can do the work I trained for. Someone paid for those panels. I think about that person sometimes during sessions.
"Someone paid for those panels. I think about that person during sessions."
Twelve practitioners. Six rooms. One shared kitchen.
Every session made possible by the rent staying affordable.
Everything a practitioner needs.
Nothing that gets in the way.
Soundproofed rooms
Six independently bookable sessions rooms, each with acoustic panels and a solid-core door.
Communal tea kitchen
A quiet preparation space stocked with loose-leaf tea, filtered water, and the kind of stillness that helps a client arrive.
A waiting area that doesn't feel like one
No fluorescent light. No plastic chairs. Books, plants, and enough privacy that clients aren't aware of each other.
Flexible scheduling
Monthly, weekly, or as-needed booking. Practitioners keep independent caseloads and set their own hours.
You're not funding an organization.
You're personally holding the door open for a specific person doing specific, quiet, necessary work. Each tier below names exactly who that is.
Covers one evening session slot per week for a practitioner on sliding-scale.
"That Thursday evening slot is the only time my client who works doubles can come. It matters more than I can say."
Underwrites the monthly room cost for one sliding-scale therapist at Grove.
"Knowing my rent is covered means I can keep eight of my twenty clients at rates they can actually afford."
Covers carpet, sound panel, lamp, and two chairs — everything a new room needs from bare concrete.
"I helped choose the rug for Room 4. Every client who walks across it is walking on something someone chose for them."
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Grove is sustained by people
who know what this work costs.
Former clients, local advocates, and small family foundations who believe accessible therapy starts with affordable rent for the therapist.
R.K.
Former client, now monthly donor
"I came to Grove in 2021 barely functional. My therapist here charged me $30 a session because that was what I had. Now I give back $40 a month because I know exactly what that means."
M.T.
Former client, 2019–2022
"The room my therapist used at Grove had a window with a view of a cedar tree. I spent three years looking at that tree. I give to Grove because I want someone else to have a cedar tree."
With gratitude to
The Kellner Family Foundation
Family Foundation · Annual gift supporting sliding-scale access, 3 years running.
Pacific Northwest Mental Health Advocates
Community Organization · Annual advocacy gift and referral network.
Former clients who found their footing here
Individual Donors · 47 individual donors in 2025.
Cascade Community Fund
Regional Foundation · Two-year capacity grant, 2024–2026.
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