What is Disability-Affirmative Therapy?

This work focuses on helping clients understand the societal barriers facing people with disabilities or chronic illness and the implications of living in a world that is not built for them.  It helps clients learn what works for them and what does not and how to more effectively advocate for themselves. It helps clients develop tools to validate and process intense emotions brought on by conscious and unconscious ableism - defined as “discrimination, prejudice, or systemic bias against people with physical, intellectual, or psychiatric disabilities.”