Counselling & Health Advocacy Blog
Two Experts Come Into a Treatment Room...
Nobody teaches us how to become patients. We learn through experience. This blog explores the hidden curriculum of navigating healthcare, why health advocacy can stop feeling safe, and why the best healthcare begins when clinical expertise and lived expertise are both respected.
What If Disabled People Aren't Allowed to Feel the Full Range of Human Emotion?
Disabled people experience the same full range of human emotions as anyone else, yet those emotions are often misunderstood through the lens of ableism. This article explores how joy, gratitude, anger, and grief are interpreted differently—and how disability-affirmative therapy begins by asking not whether an emotion is "right," but what lived experiences make it understandable.
Should You Ask Your Therapist About Their Disability Training?
When I discovered disability-affirmative therapy, I assumed it would lower expectations. Instead, it changed the way I understood myself. Learn why a therapist's understanding of disability—and the framework they bring into the therapy room—can make a meaningful difference.
Disability-Affirmative Therapy for Parents of Children with Physical Disabilities
What if supporting your child means understanding more than their diagnosis? This blog explores how disability-affirmative therapy helps parents better understand the emotional experience of growing up with a physical disability.
Access Begins Before You Arrive: The Legacy of Maayan Ziv
Accessibility doesn't begin at the door. It begins with knowing whether you can get through it. Discover how Maayan Ziv is transforming accessibility information—and why that changes everything.
How Disabled Advocates Are Creating a More Accessible and Inclusive World
Access doesn't happen by accident. It happens because someone noticed a barrier and refused to accept it. Meet the disability advocates whose work continues to make the world more accessible for everyone.
Ableism: What If You're Not the Problem?
What if the problem isn't that you're not trying hard enough? What if you've been adapting all along? Explore how ableism—not disability itself—can shape mental health, self-worth, and the way disabled people see themselves.
Medical Trauma Isn't Just About Emergencies
Medical trauma doesn't always begin in an emergency room. Sometimes it develops one appointment at a time. Learn why repeated healthcare experiences can shape mental health long after the appointment ends.
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