Why Support TOT?

Apparently, “trade" and “therapy” are “high-value words” (who’d have thought it, in this socio-political climate that ick-ifies vulnerability and self-disclosure). Holding exclusive rights to my website domain is expensive. 

 

Did I bring this upon myself by choosing this name? Yes. 

Am I nevertheless in love with it? Also absolutely yes.

 

In all seriousness, sustaining a space that produces good journalism and representation comes from being able to make a living off of this. This one-gal-marathon is a tireless charade of searching for affordable legal assistance, getting the time and space to write and research, ethically collaborating with creators and possessing the rights to my work. Creating quality writing on psychotherapy and mental health can be emotionally taxing. While the work here is free for the foreseeable future, you may choose to support my cause, if your values align with what this space is trying to create.

 

It is becoming abundantly clear that there is a dirty underbelly to therapeutic practice: insufficiently trained therapists who are anxious about their capabilities readily take up jobs with wolfish organisations who could care less about evidence-based practice or access to supervision. These counsellors, flattered by the employment, offer their labour to them readily and cheaply. The organisations feel no concern over untrained therapists taking up cases completely outside of their scope of experience. This employment market is creating a generation of intellectually-handicapped and insecure therapists, and a larger outpour of injured, untreated and untrusting clients. The dirty underbelly removes a majority of the workforce from having any leverage to advocate for social change. 

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