What Would YOU Ask Your Mental Health Provider For, If You Could?

Peers and Survivors Talk Back – Because Nothing About Us Without Us!

The current behavioral health system is built on sterile compliance and top-heavy hierarchies that systematically keep the voices of peers and survivors at the very bottom. Most often, our lived expertise never makes it up those corporate ladders.

Between Trust and Trauma exists to smash that picture.

We believe that the industry should revolve entirely around how to best help us—what else are we all here for? No one is as qualified as we are to express our own needs, define our own safety, and dictate our expectations of our providers.

These four independent, 60-minute discussion groups are a direct, loose discussion format for up to 6 participants to sit down as mentally ill peers and survivors. This room is strictly reserved for us. If you are a traditional provider, an outside observer, or looking to impact the conversation from outside the peer perspective—please step aside.

We are here to define what Trauma-Informed Care actually looks like to us. What works, what doesn’t, and what needs to stop immediately.

Our Voice. Our Terms.

A bit of housekeeping – the discussion forum will be held on my proton account. That means it will be completely encrypted for safety – it also means I can’t just automatically set it up, I have to manage sending out links etc on my own.

I will email you a link 1-2 hours prior to the group starting.

Because I keep these discussion groups really small, please let me know in advance if you are unable to attend; I actually count on you showing up.

You will get a reminder email from my 12-24 hours prior to the group starting, and I need you to respond to that email confirming that you plan to participate.

If a group has too many people who wants to attend I will keep a wait list. If someone does not respond to my reminder email then they will be moved into the wait list, and a person from the wait list will be moved in to that slot.

I can’t wait to see you there, and for us to finally strengten our voices about what we want and need.
Malene
I am planning the following times:
Thursday 9/24 @ 5:30 pm Pacific Daylight Time
Friday 9/25 @ 6:30 pm Pacific Daylight Time
Saturday 9/26 @ 1 pm
Sunday 9/27 @ 2 pm.

If you need to reach me for any reason you can also contact me here