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🏳️‍🌈, neurodivergent. Trauma therapist, gender & sexuality studies + neuropsychology graduate, good at eyeliner. (she/they) Also, I miss my dogs.
Oct 14, 2022 6 tweets 1 min read
Hello, I'm a queer, sex positive therapist, and after a year and a half long hiatus, I'm seeing clients again. I'll follow this tweet with a thread explaining my specialisation, timings, prices and other general information if you're looking for a therapist. My previous experience has been with clients usually over 18 and under 35. While I now specialise in trauma counselling and queer affirmative therapy, I do continue to work with clients who struggle with depression, anxiety and other issues. I have always done my best to make my
Apr 24, 2021 22 tweets 4 min read
10 things to help your mental health while the country collapses around you during a global pandemic - a thread (by a mental health professional) 🧵

Please RT for visibility. 1. Take a second to check in with your body, just breathe. You’ve likely been consuming a large amt of really horrifying info, or thinking about it, or talking about it, and your body needs some rest. So even if you take the next 10 seconds to do nothing but breathe, that’s great
Sep 4, 2019 6 tweets 3 min read
@nikenchugget Unfortunately, it's not something we can control. Most therapists in individual practice work with sliding scales and concessions for students, even working pro bono. From my experience however, charging people less, or not charging them at all is almost a guarantee that they @nikenchugget Won't care about the process.

Also, because of stigma and so and our jobs are feasible only in bigger cities. Bigger cities means we got more expensive bills to pay, which means we need to charge more.

Counselling is monopolised almost entirely by private practice, because