Allied Counseling Collective was founded on a deeply held belief: that true healing doesn't happen in isolation. It was built with a powerful vision — to create a space where individuals, families, and the broader community feel supported, connected, and understood, especially during life's most difficult moments. Central to this vision is a commitment to serving and uplifting AAPI, and People of the Global Majority (PGM) communities, who have historically been underserved and underrepresented in mental health care.

Our founder, Jaemmavheb Javanes-Pisani, MA, LPC, understands that healing is rarely a solitary journey — and that for many in the AAPI communities, that journey carries the added weight of navigating systemic barriers, cultural stigma, racial trauma, and the pain of feeling unseen within traditional mental health spaces. At Allied Counseling Collective, that changes. Here, your culture is not a footnote — it is central to your care.

While individual counseling sessions provide a vital foundation, it is through meaningful relationships, shared understanding, and the strength of community that lasting transformation truly takes root. This philosophy isn't just an idea — it is the heartbeat of everything the Collective does. Jaemma/Ate Jing believes that healing within AAPI communities is deeply tied to reclaiming identity, honoring cultural wisdom, and building spaces where people feel safe enough to be fully themselves.

Allied Counseling Collective was created to bridge the space between personal mental health support and community-based care, because no one — regardless of their background, culture, or lived experience — should have to navigate grief, trauma, major life transitions, or emotional hardship alone. Every service, every session, and every collaboration is rooted in the conviction that when people feel genuinely connected — to a counselor who sees them, to others who share their experience, and to a community that affirms their identity — healing becomes possible in ways it simply cannot be on one's own.

At the heart of this work is a deep commitment to belonging. Through culturally responsive, compassionate, client-centered counseling, education, and community collaboration, the Collective actively works to bring people together — not just to heal individually, but to grow stronger as a community. This means creating spaces where AAPI individuals and families are not just welcomed, but truly centered.

This is the vision that continues to guide Allied Counseling Collective today: honoring each person's unique story and cultural identity, while nurturing the connections that remind us — especially those of us who have too often been made to feel otherwise — that we are never truly alone.