Justice

For people who have wanted therapy for years and not been able to reach it, what arrives in the first session is rarely simple. Often it is both apology and relief. What can shift, quietly, when the fee comes down enough that beginning becomes possible.

Cost is the most visible threshold to therapy, not the only one. Pacing, language, diagnosis, and the tax of translating yourself before doing the work are also thresholds. What "low-barrier care" means at our practice, beyond the fee.

When the news cycle lives in your body and won't let it rest, what therapy can hold. A Vancouver psychotherapist on political distress, the felt experience of trans erasure, and what embodied and creative work can offer.

Accessibility is not a claim we make once. It is something we keep working at, visibly and imperfectly. Here's what that looks like in practice, from the first email through the room itself, named in plain terms with what we offer and what we are still working on.

Decolonizing therapy isn't a destination we've reached. It's an ongoing, accountable practice shaped by many teachers. Here's what that looks like in our work, what we're still learning, and where else to look for care.

Notes from a therapist who was born blind, is severely visually impaired, neurodivergent, and visibly trans. On what it is actually like to live at the intersection of disability and trans identity, what the research says, and what helps.

The ten principles of disability justice, credited to Patty Berne and Sins Invalid, are not decoration. They ask something specific of care. Notes from a disabled therapist on what they have asked of me, and of anyone trying to offer or receive care shaped by them.

How disability justice has shaped how we practise as therapists. A starting place for new readers with specifics on who leads, how we build access, how we pace the body's work, and how we hold intersecting identities. Links to deeper reading throughout.