Clients
The BCC offers help for a variety of mental health and wellness concerns, including:
- Complex Trauma
- Depression
- Relational Challenges
- Isolation
- Loss of enjoyment
- Anxiety
Relational-Cultural therapy facilitates healing through expanding connection and possibility.
Whether you're interested in exploring sand tray therapy, relational groups, therapeutic Relational Role Playing Games, family or couple relational intensives, or new ways to connect through play, the BCC can help you find your authenticity and create the world you want to live in.
We can help you determine how much insurance will help you on this journey, and how to still access care when it doesn't.
Clinicians
BCC’s Relational-Cultural Learning Circle gives clinicians an ongoing place to learn and apply RCT in connection. Clinicians explore relational images, strategies of disconnection, practice repair, and strengthen relational capacity for their clinical work.
Clinician memberships include twice-monthly virtual consultations, quarterly RCT trainings with continuing education hours, recordings from experienced RCT teachers, relational visualizations, and a growing library of practical resources for therapy, groups, supervision, and reflection.
Members may apply to join a Learning Circle cohort, with a local option too. Choose the membership that fits your needs and become part of a community committed to learning and practicing RCT together.
Community
Support membership is a way to belong to BCC’s work. Members sustain the sliding scale that makes relational, affirming therapy accessible—including care for trans and gender-diverse people who may otherwise struggle to find safe, affordable support.
Support members also allow us to offer Relational-Cultural therapy while nurturing new RCT therapists, creating a sustainable learning community, and paying a living wage, without sacrificing our social justice values, or promoting early burnout
Members receive guided visualizations, relational challenges, and other resources for nurturing connection in their own lives. Together, we can support trans people, expand access to care, and help more people discover a relational way of understanding growth and healing.
Meet the Staff
At our center, we are committed to Relational-Cultural Theory (RCT). We understand that people grow through and towards connection, and that our culture creates barriers to healthy connection. Our team of skilled clinicians applies RCT along with other evidenced-based mental health treatments, working to bridge the gaps in connection and relationship that create isolation and suffering. The Center for Connection is a home for clinical training and supervision in Relational Cultural Therapy. Everyone at BCC provides evidenced-based gender affirming care.
RCT Toybox
For Relational-Cultural Theory's 50th Anniversary, we are issuing a special edition of the Toybox. Filled with 48 cards, including several brand new ones from our Maureen Walker's When Getting Along is not Enough, Nathanial Smith's Queering Connection, and our 2024 Play Summit.
The RCT Toybox defines, illustrates, and connects important concepts central to Relational-Cultural Theory (RCT) and originally conceived by founding and continuing scholars at the International Center for Growth and Connection, the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, Wellesley’s Stone Center, and Monday nights in the living room of Miller’s home.
