Tag: mutual aid

As a politicized practitioner rooted in anti-oppressive, anti-carceral care, every choice in your practice is a political one. From the language you use in your consent forms to your sliding scale structure, you strive to align your actions with your values. And then comes one of the most complex questions: What do I do about […]

Envisioning a Future Where We Care for Each Other The systems that claim to care for us, healthcare, psychiatry, social services, and policing, were not built with our survival in mind. For disabled, MAD, chronically ill, neurodivergent, queer, trans, BIPOC, and poor folks, these systems surveil, institutionalize, and harm us far more often than they […]

For many Black, disabled, Mad, and neurodivergent folks, the state’s idea of “help” often means coercion, violence, or institutionalization. We’ve seen time and again how police escalate, not de-escalate situations involving mental distress.

“The system is in crisis” I have heard this simple piece of wisdom from so many of the people I work with. Recently someone told me “I’m not in crisis, the crisis is not me. It’s the system.” I am a crisis worker, and I primarily work with clients over the phone to provide support […]

Issues with Traditional Marketing for Therapists Marketing for therapists and healing professionals often feels contradictory. We need to reach the people who can benefit from our services, yet traditional marketing strategies—rooted in competition, urgency, and scarcity—often feel extractive and misaligned with our values. Late-stage capitalism, intertwined with colonialist legacies, pushes a model of success that […]

What Is Peer Support?   Peer support is a mutual-aid model of care in which people with shared lived experiences provide emotional, social, and practical support to one another. Unlike Western colonial mental health systems that position professionals as the sole authorities on healing, peer support values lived experience as a source of wisdom. It operates […]