Welcome
Hey you. I’m really glad you’re here.
Welcome to this little corner of the internet where passion, empowerment, disability, and psychotherapy meet — and where real connection actually means something.
If you’ve landed here, you’re probably carrying questions. Maybe frustration. Maybe hope. Maybe a sense that something in the therapeutic world doesn’t quite add up.
You’re in the right place.
This space is about embracing the full complexity of who we are — our strengths, our limits, our bodies, our histories — and refusing to reduce any of it to something convenient or palatable.
Our Story
Disability doesn’t just define us.
It teaches us.
It challenges us.
It exposes systems.
It demands adaptation.
It builds resilience we never asked for.
My goal is simple and unapologetic: to bridge the gap between psychotherapy and disability.
To offer insight.
To question assumptions.
To provide resources.
To name what often goes unnamed.
To create support that is real, not theoretical.
Why am I on this path?
Because it’s personal.
My own experiences showed me both the extraordinary resilience within disabled lives and the uncomfortable blind spots within therapeutic spaces that claim to support us.
I believe psychotherapy, when it is ethical, reflective, and relational, can ignite hope. It can empower. It can create profound healing.
But when disability is misunderstood, minimised, or pathologised, therapy can become destabilising instead of supportive.
My Story
I struggled to find a therapy centre that was wheelchair accessible.
Even getting through the door was a negotiation with the world.
When I finally found somewhere accessible, I discovered something else: I wasn’t being met as a whole person.
My disability wasn’t integrated into the work.
Sometimes it was avoided.
Sometimes it was over-analysed.
But it was rarely understood relationally.
As my disability evolved and changed, the therapeutic dynamic shifted too. Neither of us had a map. It was unfamiliar territory, and the instability made effective therapy difficult.
That experience stayed with me.
Then, during my psychotherapy training, the gaps became even more visible.
As part of the training, we were asked to experience therapy from a “grounded” perspective — sitting on blankets on the floor. The idea was to connect to something primal, embodied, earthy.
I had to choose safety.
I stayed in my wheelchair.
Not out of avoidance.
Not out of resistance.
But because my body requires safety and stability.
I prioritised my physical wellbeing.
Yet this choice was repeatedly criticised. It was framed as psychological avoidance. As resistance. As unwillingness to “go deeper.”
My reality was reinterpreted through an able-bodied lens.
In another exercise involving emotional release through dancing, the group moved into joy — flow, freedom, expansiveness.
I felt grief.
I felt anger.
Both completely valid responses.
But I was told my emotions were wrong. That I should have been feeling joy like everyone else. That I was somehow misaligned.
When I remained grounded in my chair — holding my emotional truth — the main trainer physically hit me, trying to provoke a reaction that could justify removing me from the course.
Let that land.
A training space meant to teach healing replicated harm.
That moment crystallised something for me.
The issue wasn’t my body.
It wasn’t my emotions.
It wasn’t my “resistance.”
It was a system that could not tolerate difference unless it looked inspirational or compliant.
During my training, I became acutely aware of how insufficient parts of the therapeutic world are when it comes to disability — whether the client is disabled, the therapist is disabled, or disability exists relationally in the room.
That awareness is why this website exists.
It began as a passion project.
It remains one.
But it is also a refusal.
A refusal to let disability be misunderstood in therapeutic spaces.
A refusal to allow safety to be reframed as pathology.
A refusal to stay silent about harm disguised as growth.
Our Approach
This isn’t just a website.
It’s a meeting point.
A thinking space.
A challenge.
A conversation that is long overdue.
It’s where stories intertwine.
Where growth is honest, not aesthetic.
Where hope exists alongside grief.
Here, disability is not a metaphor.
It’s not inspiration.
It’s not tragedy.
It is a lived reality.
It is relational.
It is political.
It is human.
Whether you’re a therapist.
A disabled person.
A trainee.
A caregiver.
Or someone questioning how therapy can do better —
This is your invitation.
We are here for self-discovery.
For empowerment that isn’t performative.
For transformation that includes the body, not overrides it.
I’m genuinely glad you’re here.
Let’s build something better.
“Every voice enriches understanding, and every story shapes a more inclusive world.“