by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 12, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Power and Systems in Mental Health, Trauma-informed
Complex Trauma Weaponized They call it Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). I call it The Scarlet Letter of Psychiatry. A diagnosis slapped onto survivors when their pain is too raw, too messy, too inconvenient for the system to stomach. A label used to control,...
by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 9, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Plurality, Power and Systems in Mental Health, Relational Healing, Trauma-informed
The Trauma-Industrial Complex “Trauma-informed” has become a marketing brand. It’s stamped across websites, plastered on intake forms, sprinkled into bios. It signals, “You’re safe here. We get it.” But more often than not, it’s just branding… a sales pitch. There’s...
by The Anti-Therapist | Aug 29, 2025 | Journal Unleashed: Reflections, Power and Systems in Mental Health, Trauma-informed
There’s a voice that often gets silenced in professional spaces: The voice of the therapist who is also a survivor. The coach who is also plural. The practitioner who is neurodivergent, trauma-impacted, and deeply human. In other words…those of us who live the work....
by The Anti-Therapist | Aug 24, 2025 | Journal Unleashed: Reflections, Power and Systems in Mental Health, Therapy Wounds and Repair
“I’m just going to hospitalize them. They need a higher level of care… They think they have DID, but I don’t even have collateral evidence to believe there’s abuse.” This was said about a client to other clinicians. And it’s not just an isolated quote. It’s a symptom...
by The Anti-Therapist | Jun 13, 2025 | Power and Systems in Mental Health, Relational Healing, Therapy Letters, Therapy Wounds and Repair
Dear Therapist, There’s something I need to name. It’s not because I want to walk away, but because I’m tired of walking away silently. There’s a pattern that lives in my system. One I’ve danced with for years, in and out of therapy. It begins when I start seeming...
by The Anti-Therapist | Jun 5, 2025 | Journal Unleashed: Reflections, Power and Systems in Mental Health, Therapy Letters, Therapy Wounds and Repair
Dear Therapist, Can we talk about something as small as no response to a text? This can feel like a sucker punch to the soul, putting it mildly. The Silence That Echoes It’s not because I’m fragile, but because when you’ve lived through years of emotional neglect or...
