What is Just Healing?
Just Healing is an alternative mental health practice offering individual and group therapy, individual and group supervision, and occasionally some creative endeavors such as critical reading groups.
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There's a lot of talk out there about a 'mental health crisis' and depending on who you ask that can mean a lot of different things. What we can't argue with however, is that a lot of people are experiencing various types of distress and the mental health system is not currently meeting their needs.
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Where Just Healing fits into this is as an offer of a different way of sitting with and responding to distress, despair, and suffering. It sees the ways in which we have understood mental distress and says hey, this isn't working, what else is there?
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Just Healing ultimately is an ongoing attempt to bridge the gap between individual 'healing' and broader 'justice'. You can read more about what this means under 'My Approach'.
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Who is Just Healing?
My name is Natalie and I am a white, cis-gendered woman from Italian immigrant parents, living on the unceded land of First Nations people in colonial Australia, and I go by the pronouns she/her. I bring lived experience of mental health struggles, chronic ill-health, and structural violence to my knowledge in this work. I am constantly learning to unlearn everything that we take for granted, and everything that we are taught is ‘truth’ from this capitalist, patriarchal, ongoing colonial project that we call society.
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Providing therapy and supervision is for me an act of bearing witness to the struggles and the resistances of people surviving this hard world. It is truly a privilege to bear witness to all of the creative ways in which people resist injustice and oppression, and to walk alongside them in that fight.