If you're passionate about the work you do, but you're one inconvenience away from a total meltdown, we can help.
Trauma-Informed
Organizational Development
We help you do good without losing your humanity (or your sanity)
Who We Are
Hello!We're a team of passionate thinkers and doers, dedicated to building with purpose and clarity. Collaboration and curiosity drive everything we do.
Welcome!
We're Essence and Emily — licensed psychologists (and wives!)
Over the past 10 years, we've seen how much individual therapy can change a person's life. Butttt, in a week you only have so many hours.
We started asking: how can we help more people with the same amount of time?
The answer we landed on was to do the same work we’ve been doing, but on a larger scale.
So instead of working one person at a time, we started working on the system around them.
The human services sector right now is a hot mess.
Nonprofits are losing funding left and right.
The government is dropping the ball and leaving vulnerable people without assistance.
And now, even more people are coming to you for help (because they know you can give it) but you're starting to realize that you’re also limited in what you can do.
And if you’re anything like us, you’re internally freaking out a little.
You care about your community AND you care about your team.
You know there is SO MUCH to do, but you also know that the people holding your org together are already doing as much as they possibly can.
So… what are you supposed to do?
We get it.
We're psychologists trying to create change inside systems we didn't break, too. It's hard!!! And not just for you, for everyone.
Honestly, we don’t know what the future looks like, or what it will take to regain a sense of normalcy. What we DO know is that the answer isn't to just keep doing the same thing and hope for the best.
So, at Deming-Rivers Social Club, we’re taking a different approach to supporting the people doing THE WORK during this time.
And we think we might have uncovered a different way to achieve your mission, without sacrificing your people.
IF YOU CAN RELATE, WE'RE TALKING TO YOU