by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 14, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Therapy Letters, Trauma-informed
Dear Therapist, How the hell am I supposed to sit here and “focus on me” when the whole world is on fire? Every headline screams collapse. Every conversation with my clients, my kids, my friends, spirals into fear. And I’m supposed to come into your office and make my...
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 | Sep 8, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Therapy Harm, Trauma-informed
Dissociation Isn’t Uncommon. It’s Human. Dissociation gets treated like an uncommon, worrisome, exotic symptom… the mark of the most “severe” disorders. Dissociation is human. Everyone does it…. Zoning out while driving and realizing you’ve missed your...
by The Anti-Therapist | Sep 3, 2025 | Complex Trauma, Dissociation, Plurality, Trauma-informed
Plurality Is Born Into Shame… But Shame Isn’t Ours Plurality itself isn’t shameful. It is a way of being human… one that has existed across cultures, across histories, across lives. But in our world, plurality rarely gets the chance to exist without shame....
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....
