by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 25, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Journal Unleashed: Reflections, Relational Healing, Therapy Letters, Trauma-informed
Dear Therapist, There is a war that lives under my skin. From the outside it doesn’t look like war at all… It looks like polite sentences, careful eye contact, and the kind of smile that knows how to pass. I keep the appointments, I say the words, I sit in the chair....
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 30, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Relational Healing
There’s a raw difference between PTSD, cPTSD, and the chaos that forged you. The mental health world loves to box human suffering into tidy little acronyms: PTSD, cPTSD, pick your favorite flavor of alphabet soup. But here’s the thing… those labels rarely hold the...
by The Anti-Therapist | Jun 14, 2025 | Journal Unleashed: Reflections, Relational Healing, Therapy Wounds and Repair
This is the truth without the clinical filter. Artificial relationships don’t heal attachment wounds. Let’s go straight to the thing people are afraid to say out loud… Sometimes, the most healing thing a therapist or healer could offer a trauma survivor isn’t just...
by The Anti-Therapist | Jun 13, 2025 | Journal Unleashed: Reflections, Relational Healing, Therapy Letters, Therapy Wounds and Repair
Dear Client, I see you. Not the “functional” version of you. Not the polished, productive, regulated you. I see the aching, hungry, uncertain you. The one trying to hold it all…the hope, the disappointment, the longing, and the unbearable grief of never having been...
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...
