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It will be helpful for you to answer the following questions if we haven't worked together yet:
- What's your aim for peer support/what brings you to booking a peer support session?
- Do you identify with not having the financial means to pay the minimum session fee (55€ for racialized, 75€ white folks)?
- Do we have common friends/aquaintances, etc. / how did you find this offer?
- Please let me know how much you'd like to donate or what you might like to trade in exchange for peer support :)
- Are you currently in a crisis/are you looking for a crisis peer support session?
Quote from Julie Tilsen, Chapter "Is that unethical or just queer?
An Ethical Stance for a Queered Practise" in Queering your Therapy Practice:
"The problem with the cautions against multiple relationships is the conflation of avoiding multiple relationships with avoiding exploitation and harm. In practice, unwise or unethical therapists routinely exploit or abuse some of their clients within allegedly safe contexts of the very private professional therapeutic relationship. There is no evidence that avoiding multiple relationships actually keeps these therapists from abusing their power and positions. In fact, the opposite is true [...]: the greater the isolation, the greater the chance of an abuse of power. [...]. [...] assuming that therapists can and should avoid multiple relationships is a privilege of some practitioners' distance from the lives of the clients and normalizes this distance as a measure of professionalism. Questioning what constitutes professional behavior is a very queer project, inasmuch as it's part of interrogating power operations and challenging normative ideas. [...] Valuing relationship, community, and interconnectivity is a hallmark of many communities - as well as of basic human happiness. With marginalized communities, it is also often central to survival. [...] As a member of statistically small and politically marginalized sub-population - and as someone who shows up regularly at community and social events - it's inevitable that I'll have some connections with some of the people who seek my services. [...] Working with a therapist who is a member of one's own community, and who shares social locations and lived experiences, can be especially helpful and healing. This is particularly true when your identity has been weaponized against you - and when you have been blamed for the distress you experience. This separation of individual from their community and cultural homes is a long-standing tactic of colonial and capitalist systems of oppression. [...]. Seen through a queer-informed lens, our current professional policies on multiple relationships actually serve to police queer and trans communities. They may also inhibit health and healing. [...]"
An Ethical Stance for a Queered Practise" in Queering your Therapy Practice:
"The problem with the cautions against multiple relationships is the conflation of avoiding multiple relationships with avoiding exploitation and harm. In practice, unwise or unethical therapists routinely exploit or abuse some of their clients within allegedly safe contexts of the very private professional therapeutic relationship. There is no evidence that avoiding multiple relationships actually keeps these therapists from abusing their power and positions. In fact, the opposite is true [...]: the greater the isolation, the greater the chance of an abuse of power. [...]. [...] assuming that therapists can and should avoid multiple relationships is a privilege of some practitioners' distance from the lives of the clients and normalizes this distance as a measure of professionalism. Questioning what constitutes professional behavior is a very queer project, inasmuch as it's part of interrogating power operations and challenging normative ideas. [...] Valuing relationship, community, and interconnectivity is a hallmark of many communities - as well as of basic human happiness. With marginalized communities, it is also often central to survival. [...] As a member of statistically small and politically marginalized sub-population - and as someone who shows up regularly at community and social events - it's inevitable that I'll have some connections with some of the people who seek my services. [...] Working with a therapist who is a member of one's own community, and who shares social locations and lived experiences, can be especially helpful and healing. This is particularly true when your identity has been weaponized against you - and when you have been blamed for the distress you experience. This separation of individual from their community and cultural homes is a long-standing tactic of colonial and capitalist systems of oppression. [...]. Seen through a queer-informed lens, our current professional policies on multiple relationships actually serve to police queer and trans communities. They may also inhibit health and healing. [...]"