when performative allyship goes away, therapy remains real

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When past inclusive measures are revealed to be more about optics than conviction, people feel betrayed or unsafe. Counsellors provide space to explore those feelings.

is counselling a ‘woke’ profession?

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Is counselling a ‘woke’ profession? Some people think so, others don’t. But what’s the real deal?

diversity in therapy: an uphill fight to make it happen

Multiple faces

As a working class, gay, nonbinary therapist with disabilities, my experience of disadvantages, discrimination and poverty is useful.

in counselling, one size does not fit all

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In the development of therapy from Freud onwards, foundational mantras were formulated by old, wealthy, white men of immense privilege.