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Anti-oppressive Therapist. PhDing @bbkpsychosocial mestizaje & coloniality. Eurocentrism is a cage. Peruana. Frañol is my mother tongue. Weightlifting. She/Her

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*NEW BLOG* On how colonialism shows up in therapeutic spaces and in the profession, followed by three invitations for colleagues to start reflecting and taking action to address this violence. [based on the talk given at the FTN anniversary event]
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Colonialism in Therapy: three invitations for our work - South of Therapy

Featured photo credit: Ashley Batz With gratitude to the Feminist Therapy Network organisers and the participants to their anniversary event. Introduction Having had to push myself to the limit this

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Call me a hater but I wish more people responded this way to Europeans instead of automatically kissing ass and accepting all kinds of condescension from them.
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Pedro 魏百卓 aka 魏老师
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European girl in China: “My mom is German and my dad is Italian!” Chinese cabbie: “oh yeah, both those countries were fascist allies with Japan in WW2!” 😅🥲
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Unpopular opinion: I'm a therapist in the therapy room, not outside. Therapy is not a way of life. The profession can't shame me into being gentle, empathetic, and (what they perceive as) non-judgmental outside of my work. I reserve the right to be my own human being.
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Oxford Uni guy wants translation job done by Global South translators for less that a fourth of the minimum fee he would have to pay in the UK. Absolutely shameless. Pay people for their work. We don't have to accept break crumbs because we are not Europeans.
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Fuck academic journals for keeping all the knowledge behind a paywall, only for a small group of people to see. That's all for today.
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@JazzTehara holy shit, I didn't know that
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@DenisseROlivari Se quienes son sus hijos, estudiaron conmigo en un colegio caro que te prepara a ingresar directo al sistema de universidades Frances. Ademas tienen la nacionalidad por parte de su madre (y no tuvieron que enfrentarse a migraciones). El tweet de Montoya es broma de mal gusto.
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Me: I haven't even told you what happened in Peru? Him: no. Me: right. Finish what you're doing and prepare yourself. Him: the short version please 🙄 Me: right. So in 1492...
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Today, the Argentinian senate will vote on the abortion bill. If it passes, Argentina will be the 3rd Latin American country with legal, and safe access to abortion for pregnant people. Too many have died, it is time to change. #AbortoLegal2020 #QueSeaLey
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Argentina is fighting for abortion rights and we are strong but we need our sisters around the world to support us more than ever. Join us in the international feminist revolution. Here’s a million souls screaming "DOWN WITH THE PATRIARCHY, IT WILL FALL. FEMINISM WILL PREVAIL” 🔥
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@brennanholt6 Always 🙃
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There's a lot of nonsense about ND ppl said by NT mental health professionals out there. It's prob always been there but I am seeing it now cause I'm PAYING ATTENTION. Perhaps you should too. As an NT therapist working with ND clients here are things I am reflecting on 🧵👇 1/n
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This book is melting my brain in the best way possible. The first and only time I have read about genuine unapologetic decolonial praxis in mental health. I'm only finishing the first chapter but it's making me cry tears of joy and relief.
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The entirety of the Peruvian nation is a systematic campaign to dehumanize black and indigenous people. It has been going on for centuries. Anti-blackness and racism are at the very foundation of what we know as Latin America. But blancos and mestizos don't want to know.
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Well then. VIVA just ended. After 5 years of tears (and blood) I am now a qualified psychotherapist at MSc level.
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El racismo y la violencia no son problemas de salud mental sino problemas sociales. El padre no es un buen padre por ser violento. El racismo y la agresividad también se aprenden en casa. Todo eso no es excusa: merecía ser arrestado y que sus actos no queden sin consecuencias.
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Lima 2021. A white criolla heads to protest asking for elections to be cancelled so Castillo, the brown andean man who won, doesn't become president. She makes her maid, a racialised woman, carry her sign for her, walking behind her employer. If this is not telling of... 1.
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Como duele esta imagen...
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#Vacunaton . Vaccination marathon in Lima. This was certainly not the ambiance when I got my vaccine here in the UK. I am disappointed.
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#Vacunaton #VacunatonConCumbia #YoPongoElHombro Quién dijo que irse a vacunar era cosa aburrida y de largas colas? Si hasta el Ministro de Salud @ougarteu baila su cumbia en el Gálvez Chipoco de Barranco
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How are we supposed to be witnessing genocide and still go about our days like nothing was happening? There is no self-care to be recommended here as a mental health professional that is not gaslighting. Except perhaps, hang onto what give you strength and hope.
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Maybe instead of telling me I'm too hot-headed and radical consider how you are lukewarm-minded and a bit too comfortable with injustice. Dunno just saying.
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OK. Real talk time. I've been keeping this quiet for months and there's no need to make it public, but that wouldn't serve anyone would it? Also I keep witnessing how this profession tends to be self-righteous and full of stigma against the very people we are meant to serve. 1/n
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Behold my new mug, bought it for work. I'm very OKAY. That will have to be enough 😁
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Traditional ways of practicing therapy taught to us in training do not serve many neurodiverse clients and I'm tired of pretending otherwise.
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Decolonising also means opening our minds to other forms of knowledge and intelligence, which are not supported by western academia.
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No White Saviors
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Harriet Tubman, on paper, was an illiterate fugitive. Yet she had the intelligence, courage and resourcefulness to not only save herself but to free hundreds of enslaved Africans. Intelligence & capability must be measured by its ability to FREE US.
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Gringos that are 'experts' on Latin America. That's it.
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For reference it's £100 for 1000 words. He will do the honour of paying £30 for 2250 words. To go a do research in someone else's land. Honestly fuck colonialism.
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I'm tired of white therapists saying therapy is a revolutionary activity tbh. It's not. It's the most liberal activity that calms distress and upholds the status quo. Stop saying that because we help people like themselves it is radical. You clearly don't know what radical means
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Spain won't stop stealing I see. This is not a 'flamenco box' it's a Peruvian Cajon. More precisely an Afro-Peruvian instrument introduced more recently to flamenco by Paco de Lucia (apparently). Stop erasing entire communities from their cultural expressions ffs...
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Spain's King Felipe VI played the traditional flamenco music box after the first day of the 9th Spanish Language Congress in Cadiz
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The current silence in our profession in the face of genocide is loud. It's time to speak up. Here is an open letter to mental health professionals, networks and organisations. If you wish to co-sign it, the form is in my next tweet 👇
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It's time to speak up. An open letter to mental health professionals. - South of Therapy

“And no part of this enormous wound has held you back in any way.And no part of this enormous wound has pushed you in any way.You have been free to

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I'm continuing my reading of that Class and Psychoanalysis book and let me tell you is SO MUCH BETTER than anything I've read so far on class in counselling. It dives deep although briefly on topics like status maintenance and terror/abjection and links it to therapists' training
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SCoPEd says that only the most privileged among therapists (access to higher more expensive academic degrees) can tell others about the effects of discrimination and oppression. Can we all see the problem here? Good.
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#UnderTheMicroSCoPEd part 4
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I am a counsellor, and hearing some colleagues speak, I feel the need to say: No, counselling is not the best option for everybody. If you don't want to seek help from a counsellor, or feel it wouldn't be helpful to you, you might be right about that. 1/n
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Saying "Politics have no place in therapy" means that you have no understanding of the impact of the social context & oppression on mental health. Because when you gain that understanding, with a shred of empathy, you will see that therapy is entirely political in its practice.
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@Alonso_GD Eligiendo al primer candidato que les prometió representarlos de verdad, y no solo a la clase media limeña.
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@aclientfirst As an allistic therapist I have to agree. Experience is teaching me how training does not prepare us to work with different relationship-building needs. If we are not 100% ready to question that & not see our own ways are as "normal" we're at risk of doing great harm.
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I really wish therapists with less experience had access to mentorship for private practice, defining niches, communicating them, managing case/admin load, online presence etc... with more experienced people in similar niches because it really is like walking in complete darkness
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And thus my very first meme was born. "Oh look I'm decolonising!"
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Lastly, trust your client's words, their experience, and the needs they express in your therapeutic relationship above all else. And yes, that also means above the theory and practices you learned. It's not easy but it's needed and worth it. 13/13
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Hay gente que confunde las ganas de trabajar por la reconciliación y la paz con el "perdón". Este es un concepto ultra cargado de pseudo-moralidad cristiana poco útil cuando se trata de co-construir futuros colectivamente, sobretodo en casos donde la injusticia sigue vigente. 1/n
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The death of Elizabeth Windsor triggers memories of extreme violence and Intergenerational trauma. Telling people they need to mourn and respect their abuser is abusive. Silencing/omitting all abuse and violence done and only mentioning what you think was good is abusive.
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Hablar de paridad siempre fue solo entre hombres y mujeres pero nadie promovía la paridad cultural o racial en el gobierno. ¿O me equivoco? Todas las críticas realmente dejan ver la realidad de sus mentalidades.
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If we are unconsciously coming from the perspective that our way of functioning is the "normal one" then we cannot seriously work from a stance of respect and openness to our ND clients. We might want to challenge ourselves to truly examine how we reproduce this thinking. 5/n
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I keep being followed by white therapists who quickly unfollow me. Did they expect comfort? Uplifting material? A follow back?😂 I'm not here to network or to uplift your vision of eurocentric psychotherapy, but to challenge. + other cultural info, depending on the mood.
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We need to talk about that judeo-christian/wounded-saviour charitable white middle-class mindset that permeates the counselling profession asap.
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Working on anti-oppression with privileged & adjacent people tends to pull us towards focusing on gentleness, empathy, and acceptance. I notice the need to remember that real change/decolonising doesn't come without what will be perceived by these groups as violence.
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Many pathologising views on autism and ADHD, either considering them illnesses or problems to be fixed, or denying their existence and believing they are just trauma, are damaging. They stem from two things in my opinion. 3/n
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What's sad is that I only feel able to say this and challenge these beliefs now that I feel better and I am in the process of stopping medication. I just don't feel it's safe to talk about one's own mental health issues in the MH professions! and that says a lot. 5/n
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@soyciguapa Primero creyeron que su religión los hacía superiores a nosotros. Ahora creen que su ateísmo los hace superiores a nosotros. (asumiendo que hablas de una europea)
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So, I didn't stop working and I resent the people who think I should have. I resent the ones that use the idea of "fitness to practice" as a weapon, projecting inability onto others they know nothing about. 6/n
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I'm glad to have Therapy Today teach me that grieving the loss of a loved one for one year or more is wrong and it's an illness. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
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My grandma, who's undergoing chemotherapy for a very aggressive cancer, has just been through covid too, and survived. The doctor said this is nothing short of a miracle. I'm so relieved. Just wanted to share the good news. She's my closest person ever.
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One: a sense of superiority from being part of the majority or the "norm". Like with many other forms of oppression, it also comes with saviourism and discounting of the person's being. Either through feeling we know better or we can "help" them. 4/n
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Sick and tired of therapists presenting their white wishy-washy approaches to therapy as a solution for social change and equality. And ofc not ONE word on an ongoing genocide. Don't be fooled by the co-optation of words like: change, transformation, radical, justice, etc...
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Howdy. Remember I wrote something for the BPC magazine like 1000 years ago? It was on the racism of white women in the therapeutic relationship. It is now on open access through the New Associations archives. Find it on page 13 here:
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Do clients also know many of us have done it out of necessity and lack of options, and have struggled through it because we didn't come into the profession having previously accumulated capital or being in wildly privileged positions? I doubt it. Pay your damn staff.
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We would like to say a big Thank You to all our wonderful Volunteer Counsellors! “Knowing that therapists are unpaid and are there because they want to help makes a huge difference to service users’ experience." Marisca, RB Mind Psychotherapy and Counselling Coordinator
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When will we see the topics of power dynamics and oppression, especially relating to anti-racism, placed at the core of our training? Without this, the risk of harm in counselling is too high.
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@archer_rs This needs to be reporter to her employer and the police. Especially because of where she works.
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It wasn't my first rodeo. I recognised the signs and knew who to talk to & how. This was crucial in getting the right support on time. Here's the controversial part: I never stopped client work. I used supervision and therapy extensively to make sure I was OK to do so. 4/n
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Since so many seem to think you have to have everything figured out & you cannot be a MH professional if you have issues yourself, let me say fuck that mindset. In fact, let me challenge it with my own example. I suffered from depression and burnout back in January this year. 2/n
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When I was looking for a therapist I contacted someone who had listed they could work in Spanish. The response I got "oh well, it's awkward because yes I kind of speak a little Spanish but not enough. Is Spanglish OK?" No, it's not OK WTF. Why mention Spanish then?
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I'm very confused by white South Americans that are immigrants in Europe and talk about white privilege as something external to themselves. I understand your immigration status is complicated but maybe let's not confuse things?
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"Psychologising has served, directly or indirectly, to strengthen the oppressive structures, by drawing attention away from them and toward individual and subjective factors." Martín-Baró
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📢Webinar : Colonialism & Mental Health Thu 18th April, 6.30pm From a decolonial perspective, this 1h long webinar will provide an overview of the impact of colonialism on mental health and access to care. 1/ Tickets on donation👇
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Lots of room in there for nasty unconscious baggage, for Rescuing or Persecuting, for condescendence and patronizing. Anyway, that was from a professional and ethical standpoint. From a personal one, I just send these people a big Fuck You. 10/10
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I seem to have gained some followers since I've been complaining openly. Mostly therapists, some from the motherland. Hello😊 I mostly post about equality, colonialism, racism, eurocentrism and a thing or two that will offend the White European. Let's stay uncomfortable together.
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I am taking a break from social media starting now. I haven't felt strong enough to withstand what life has thrown at me recently and I'm seriously struggling. I'm working on setting up extra support for myself during this period. I trust all will be well. See you soon-ish💚
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El mito del "buen salvaje" es profundamente racista y colonial. Visiblemente muchos peruanos todavía lo llevan en la mente.
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I was asked directly the other day if I believe therapy is the solution for a better world (more self-aware, just, empathetic etc). My firm answer is and will always be NO. Therapy and its language are used in both progressive and reactionary ways. 1/3
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Sick and tired of therapists presenting their white wishy-washy approaches to therapy as a solution for social change and equality. And ofc not ONE word on an ongoing genocide. Don't be fooled by the co-optation of words like: change, transformation, radical, justice, etc...
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What's concerning about this dynamic is that in doing so, they are actually attacking their own clients and placing themselves above them too, as above any other person who might be struggling emotionally. 8/n
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After much consideration, I have decided to put this on a new blog. It is based on my experience of humanistic therapy training and the readings I had to do for the course. I found them severely lacking, this is why 👇
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2-start problematising your own ways of functioning instead. Turn the pathologising inquisitive eye onto NT norms of behaviour. What feels oppressive or doesn't make sense to your client? Why isn't that considered a problem instead of your clients way of being? 11/n
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First of all, please know that I am in no position to talk about ND experiences, only from my own perspective as an NT therapist building therapeutic relationships with people who are fundamentally different from me. Hopefully, this will help other NT people. 2/n
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
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If you are not ready to bravely confront the ugliest parts of yourself as a human without mentally melting into a puddle then you are not ready to do deep anti-oppressive work. We all carry an oppressor and it is UGLY but it exists and we need to be brave in challenging it.
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
2 years
Therapy is political whether we want to believe we are neutral or not. Not addressing oppression in the therapy room and naming it when we see it is harmful and some white therapists' responses to this are the very reason this profession perpetuates trauma & harm.
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
2 years
Feeling increasingly isolated in my own profession.
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
5 months
"Peru officially classifies trans people as mentally ill". This is horrendous, when trans people already face untold violence in our country. Our gov is set on destroying marginalised people's lives. Literally killing people. I truly hate those parasites with a burning passion.
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
3 years
@Alonso_GD Oye no. IG es el willax de las redes sociales.
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
3 years
Our society I don't know what is. Especially because this white women is explicitly asking for the votes of people like her employee to be declared invalid. This pic hurts and it shows exactly why Castillo won. People see what is happening. 2/2
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
2 years
It's a lesson. A very tiny snippet of your client's experience of having to adapt and navigate a neurotypical world constantly. Respect that and their experience. Never stop trying to figure out how to adapt to them. It's an ongoing process that requires open communication. 10/n
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
2 years
Repeat after me: you cannot decolonise psychotherapy. It's a colonial field. To do so you'd have to destroy its foundations and stop being a therapist. Stop throwing that word around just to save yourself from the discomfort of using colonial theories in your work. Face it.
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
2 years
I love a robust therapist that can take direct confrontation about her work and engage without defensiveness. As in "something is not right, what on earth do you think you're doing right now?" Thank the gods for my therapist who can receive that with grace & respond to my need.
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
2 years
Two: from a feeling of discomfort in front of difference. I noticed that if we are trying to understand the client's perspective then such fundamental differences in neuro-functioning, in what we understand or not, are bound to create discomfort within us. 6/n
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
11 months
Sorry but reading all the books about inequalities, social justice & anti-oppressive practice won't make you withstand moments where you need to dig deep, be challenged and uncomfortable as a therapist without being harmful. Nor will it make you be brave & speak up when needed 1/
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
1 year
This book offers a wealth of information on all concepts & realities we need to know about to integrate an anti-oppressive approach to our therapy practice. Complete with loads of reflective exercises! @Myira_Khan
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
2 years
Believe me, you'll discover much about your client's experience AND about your own blinkered spots at the same time as curbing that inherent superiority that comes with being in the majority. Win-win. 12/n
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
3 years
Reminder that diversity and difference modules in your therapy training is likely to be a box ticking exercise and in no way shape or form did it prepare you to work with difference without doing harm.
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
2 years
This is heartbreaking, not because of the protests, but because of the response from authorities and upper classes. There are 7 dead to date and still no one close to power listens to the people or their needs. Always been like that and that's precisely WHY people are rising.
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@De_Coloniality
2 years
Protests and roadblocks in Peru.
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@SarmientoVerano
Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
3 years
Why is Supervision, further training and CPD so expensive? How are we supposed to make a living out of our counselling work without charging clients fees that most cannot afford privately? (and no. Having a previous career or a wealthy partner do not count as solutions)
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
4 years
So basically the Peruvian president just said there will be no widely available vaccine for our country any time soon. Actually no vaccine at all have been bought yet. My heart.
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
2 years
Just like the ones who point toward the therapist Other who is unethical (but obviously not themselves) in order to feel perfect and pure and superior. So do therapists bask in their own perceived superiority when attacking therapists who have mental health issues. 7/n
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
3 years
I love books as so many other people. But this intellectual fetish we tend to have with written and published knowledge (somehow legitimised by an industry) makes me think of all the other forms of knowledge that we don't legitimise. 1/2
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
2 years
And I've been taking medication for it. Sertraline . Now I know that happened because multiple bereavements in the past few years compounded with extreme lack of self-care and overworking myself right when I needed to rest the most (my own decision btw, no one else to blame). 3/n
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
3 years
New blog: I put together some thoughts on cultural shame, what it is, where it comes from, and how our therapy frameworks reinforce it. Also, some of my thoughts on how we can begin to address it in therapy are in there. Read at your own risk.
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
3 years
Peruvians and I'm sure other people from the Global South go through life with constant reminders that things can, in fact, always get worse. Much worse.
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
2 years
and create misunderstandings/distance with clients. This can bring feelings of inadequacy & confusion. We become uncomfortable with ourselves as therapists & can project this onto clients. Don't let this make you retreat into what you know & defend against your client's mind.8/n
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
2 years
People don't realise how fighting for change, justice & equality is also about emotional regulation, emotional labour, and community building with all the challenges involved in that. And it usually feels so daunting for so many.
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
3 years
Righty, so announcement time, (sorry it comes almost a month late) I am working with Race Reflections as Assistant Disruptor! I'm honoured by this opportunity and very excited about what we are developing right now. You'll see😉 Follow their accounts btw @Racereflects !
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
2 years
I don't think many understand, let alone are ready to face, the sheer amount of hatred held in people's unconscious (yes even for liberals, progressive 'inclusive' people) for the racial and class 'other'
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@SarmientoVerano
Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
3 years
I'd like to let you know that I have just lost my grandma, who was more like a mother to me. I'm heartbroken but relieved that she is not suffering anymore. I am going to take a step back from social media for a while, be less active.
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
4 years
Today I'm finally starting therapy in Spanish, with someone able to touch on the difficult subjects of culture and race. I am excited to experience the power of working in my mothertongue. I am nervous because there is no escaping the emotions in the language that raised you.
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
3 years
I wish there wasn't so much stigma around MH practitioner struggling with mental health themselves. It is quite hipocritical.
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Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@SarmientoVerano
3 years
What many therapists do not understand is, conversations about oppression (classism, racism, sexism, homo and transphobia, ableism etc.) are NOT conversations about personal identities/perspectives. These are no "both sides" conversations. That in itself is oppressive. 1/
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