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Our Core Principles

Our core and founding principles are,

‘Do no harm’.
We will not provide mental health support or advocacy assistance if we genuinely do not believe we can provide the appropriate support and assistance. Our goal is to get our clients and patients into a healthier position than when they first reached out for support.

‘Act in the best interests of our clients and patients’
Our focus is about the best interests of our clients and patients. When working with clients and patients, we work collaboratively, engaging through the process of providing mental health support and, or, advocating on their behalf where they’re unable to do so themselves.

‘Integrity’
Small Village Therapy requires a high level of integrity given the sensitive situations we find ourselves in whilst providing mental health support and, or, advocating on behalf of our clients and patients. When decisions need to be made, those decisions are made in collaboration with clients and patients and where a client or patient forms a different view from that which is suggested, we will always follow those views, unless we believe it to not be in the best interest of the client or patient, at which time we will discuss potential alternate specialists to assist in either providing mental health support and/or advocacy.

‘Progress and Ethical Responsibility’
We have a number of ethical, legal and regulatory obligations. Amongst those is to ensure the assistance and support we provide to you is appropriate, not just at the initial stages, but throughout the period we provide that support.Whilst we are limited in what guarantees we can make, we can make two,

  1. We will always endeavor to act in your best interests,
  2. If we, or you, feel that our ability to provide appropriate mental health support is either not improving your position, we, in discussions with you, will work together to either change the level of support we are providing, or in some circumstances arrange to refer you to other professionals who may be better suited to your needs. This, on the rare occasion it occurs, is done in line with our principles to ensure we do no harm and act in your best interests.