A Note Before You Enter

If you are a professional and you have stumbled onto my page, from the bottom of my heart, thank you. I am assuming you are here because you care that people are hurt or harmed when receiving treatment within your field of expertise. I am deeply grateful for your care.

And then to the uncomfortable part — on this page we are primarily peers and survivors, and many of us have been deeply harmed by practitioners in your field. This is not an attack on you, but it is necessary for you to be aware of this context.

So, respectfully, please sit down and listen first. Your instinct may be to explain, defend, or educate. We ask that you resist that impulse. In this context your degree and your experience is not that important. We are here to strengthen and support the voices of survivors first. Your ability to respect us, hear us, and learn from us matters more than your degrees and clinical competence.

The goal of this organization is to be explicitly trauma-informed, and that means we focus on the voices of survivors — specifically survivors who have been hurt by the mental health industry.

What we invite instead: Sit. Listen. Reflect. Sit with discomfort. Ask questions that deepen your understanding, not questions that defend the industry — what happened to us is not defensible. Be willing to have your assumptions challenged.

I sincerely hope that you stay and engage with us. Much can be improved when we work together, but please be clear — in this context you are not invited to teach. You are invited to listen, learn, and be changed by what you hear. We hope you stay.

Nothing About Us Without Us.