There Is No Therapy Without Justice
Activism is not an adjunct to our work, it is woven through it. We understand mental health as inseparable from the social, political and historical conditions that shape our lives, and we support individuals and communities to respond to harm and advocate for justice, care and systemic change.
Our Activism
Alongside our clinical and educational work, we engage in advocacy and collective organising to challenge the structural conditions that shape mental health and wellbeing for Global Majority communities. Through research, community conversations, events and partnerships with grassroots organisations, we contribute to wider movements for justice, health equity, and systemic change.
Our activism is grounded in the belief that mental health cannot be separated from the social, political and historical forces that shape people’s lives.
Justice In Therapy: Decolonising the Curriculum
Hosted in partnership and sponsored by the University of East London School of Childhood and Social Care.
What must be dismantled to decolonise therapy training? Join the 5th Justice in Therapy conference, on 25th April, exploring justice in education. Counselling and psychotherapy training in the UK is increasingly being asked to reckon with its colonial inheritance, Eurocentric canon, and the impact of structural injustice within therapeutic education.
Building on the conversations, campaigning and organising held over the past 18 months, this conference will follow the insights and recommendations captured in our Justice in Therapy report and inform the priorities for change in therapeutic education.
Who is this for?
Counsellors and psychotherapists
Trainees and students
Educators and training providers
Researchers
Community practitioners and organisers
Anyone interested in justice-informed approaches to therapy and therapeutic education
Find out more or sign up for this free event here.
Justice In Therapy
Justice in Therapy began as a response to the deep exhaustion, rage, and unmet need experienced by therapists working at the margins of a profession that often fails to confront systemic oppression. What emerged was a series of participatory conferences rooted in honesty and courage where practitioners could reimagine therapy as a politicised, relational, and liberatory practice. This movement calls for a shift across practice, training, and institutions: centring marginalised voices, naming power and harm, and building communities of care and accountability. Justice in therapy is not a fixed model, but an ongoing, collective commitment to transforming mental health professions so that healing, dignity, and liberation are possible for all.
You can read our 2025 report here
