Therapy should be a space of safety, validation, and growth, especially for LGBTQ+ people. Yet, many LGBTQ+ clients still find themselves in rooms where their identities are misunderstood or pathologised. To support queer people effectively, we must radically rethink psychotherapy. Decolonising psychotherapy isn’t just about using the right words—it’s about shifting how we view gender, sexuality, shame, safety, and healing.

Cyberbullying is not harmless banter.It is not something people should “just ignore.” And it is not a personality flaw or a bit of online drama. It is a serious mental health issue — one that harms victims, corrodes perpetrators, and thrives in cultures that excuse cruelty as honesty or free speech.

Lukasz speaks about being Queer and sober, a movement we are seeing across the LGBTQ+ community where people, but especially young people are choosing to be sober and social and party sober.

Dating apps like Grindr are often framed as tools for connection, but they can also amplify harm, especially for Queer people navigating shame, racism, body hierarchies, rejection, and trauma. This blog uses the metaphor of cigarette warning labels to critically examine how app culture impacts mental health, self-worth, and intimacy. It questions what responsibility platforms hold, and how users can engage more consciously and safely.

Decolonising psychotherapy is about more than inclusion. It’s about transformation. It asks us to remake therapy into something rooted in justice, solidarity, and liberation. Trans people deserve more than tolerance. They deserve therapy that honours their complexity, recognises their struggle, and affirms their right to exist fully and freely. Let’s build that therapy together.

Misdiagnoses: Black individuals are disproportionately diagnosed with schizophrenia compared to mood disorders, even when presenting with similar symptoms to white patients. This may stem from implicit bias, where clinicians misinterpret expressions of anger or distrust (often a reasonable response to systemic racism) as psychotic symptoms. Research has shown significant disparities in these diagnoses, highlighting the impact of bias.  

Assuming that forced migrants are now safe in the West is a harmful myth. While it may be relatively safer than the conditions they fled, forced migrants continue to face significant threats. Racism, xenophobia, and anti-migrant sentiments are pervasive, as highlighted by the racist and Islamophobic riots across the UK in the summer of 2024, culminating in the tragic arson attack on a hotel housing migrants.

Stigma often leads therapists to view sex work as inherently harmful, framing it as the source of a client’s distress rather than examining the systemic and societal issues at play. Decolonising psychotherapy involves affirming sex workers’ agency and dismantling biases, recognising that their challenges are often rooted in the environments and systems they navigate, not the work itself.

Therapy often reinforces heteronormative and mononormative ideals, positioning heterosexual, monogamous relationships as the default or superior model. This perspective marginalises individuals in consensual non-monogamous relationships, such as open or polyamorous partnerships, as well as communities like the LGBTQIA+ community and some religious communities.

Decolonising psychotherapy means moving beyond Eurocentric, individual-focused models to include diverse cultural practices like collective healing. Many BIPOC communities process trauma through shared experiences and mutual support, which resonate deeply with their lived realities.

Being a Queer ally is not about labels or good intentions alone — it’s about action, accountability, and ongoing learning. This blog offers a clear, compassionate guide to allyship, exploring how power, privilege, and silence can cause harm, even unintentionally. It invites allies to move beyond performative support and towards listening, self-reflection, and meaningful solidarity that genuinely supports Queer lives.

Embracing bisexuality often comes with unique challenges, including invisibility, invalidation, and pressure to “prove” your identity. This blog explores the emotional journey of accepting bisexuality in a world shaped by binaries, Queerphobia, and misunderstanding — both within and outside Queer communities. It centres self-acceptance, unlearning shame, and reclaiming bisexual identity without apology or explanation.

Being closeted is often framed as a temporary stage before coming out, but for many Queer people it is a long-term reality shaped by fear, safety, culture, and survival. This blog explores the psychological and emotional impact of hiding parts of yourself, including shame, anxiety, hypervigilance, and disconnection. It challenges the assumption that coming out is always the solution and centres compassion, choice, and self-protection.

Body shame is a painful and pervasive reality for many Queer men, reinforced by dating apps, media, and narrow ideals of desirability. This blog explores how fatphobia, masculinity norms, and internalised Queerphobia shape self-worth and intimacy. It challenges the harmful idea that certain bodies are more “acceptable” than others, and centres compassion, resistance, and reclaiming self-worth beyond appearance.

Receiving an ADHD diagnosis can bring relief, confusion, grief, or validation — often all at once. This blog explores ADHD through a neurodiversity-affirming lens, examining how stigma, misdiagnosis, and social expectations impact Queer and marginalised people. It centres understanding, self-compassion, and reframing difference as diversity, while offering insight into navigating diagnosis, identity, and support without shame.