Why Vault?

Vault is not only our logo but it is also a concept that we developed that represents the core of our understanding of human suffering.  Everyone suffers at some point in life.  Suffering is one thing that connects all of us.  It’s the one thing that everyone shares in common.  In a world where humans have become more divided than ever we all need to know and be able to recognize that at our emotional worst, we are all very similar.  Everyone struggles and everyone experiences emotional pain.  

Vault also represents our philosophy of professional help and our practice is a place that is safe, secure and strong.  A vault is made of impenetrable steel and it can store all the parts of us that need containment.  We will never ask you to open your vault until you are ready and part of our work is helping you get there, to use our strength and conviction to help us together start to be able to look at what may be going on in there.  The vault also represents how we treat you, your information, and your situation.  We will treat you like family and we will move mountains for our families. 

In our practice, we have found that the imagery, concept, and connotations of a vault help people see for themselves that painful emotions and experiences are kept hidden or buried because most people want to avoid the contents of the vault at almost all cost.  Some people even want to die because of the contents of their vault.  Fortunately, life and death are very interconnected and one can find life in the depths of their despair.      

Our vault conceptualization includes any feeling, thought, symptom, or behaviour that a person wants and needs to avoid and feels hopeless or unable to do anything about it.  One’s vault may include traumatic experiences, secrets, body image issues, whole or parts of one’s identity, and anything that one may feel shame, guilt, or fear towards.  It may also include anything that a person has not yet been able to speak or process, and really the list can be endless. The contents of the vault inside a person is what holds them hostage and often unconsciously leads them to therapy or leads them to being of a concern to their peers or loved ones in their lives.  In our experience people that attempt suicide or that externalize or internalize their global distress have vault that they feel deeply ashamed or fearful of.  Most of us at various times need to and want to lock up our vault and throw away the key.  Unfortunately, while a vault is good at storing many things, they are not good at storing away emotional pain. While vaults create a heavy burden and when left unearthed can lead us to experience depression, anxiety, eating disorders, relationship difficulties, work difficulties, and the list may go on and on.  

More than anything, we believe that your vault is what makes you beautiful and unique.  Vaults are also the place where great strength, gifts, passion and compassion lies. Vaults are also the birthplace of one’s best lives.  For us, vaults are beautiful and in them we find that which connects us all and that which helps us feel less alone, less scared, and less ashamed.  Our vault contains not only our core negative emotions and experiences but also our greatest strengths, our courage, our gifts and our needs.  In the end, vaults are what make us unique and beautiful. Greatness, beauty, gifts, direction, clarity, all of things that we wish we had… all of these things are born out of our work with our vaults.