Lucia Sarmiento Verano

We will also reflect on others resources provided to explore the different shades of anger that may be present in our activism or work. Some of them can actually be helpful and a source of energy to continue, while others can prevent us from building lasting relationships.

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Membership | Lucia Sarmiento Verano Hi, thank you for visiting my Community Page. I hold regular meetings and reading groups for community members and provide a monthly newsletter with resources and reflective prompts on the topics of o

This text will be a helpful resource to kickstart our reflections on how we engage with our own and other people's process of transformation when we are all fighting for change.

Come join us through the link in bio or here: buymeacoffee.com/sarmientover...

Our first Reading Group will happen in the last week of November!

All tiers (even newsletter readers only tier 'Liberation Reader' will have an invitation!) are welcome. I have secured permission from Dr Proctor, the author of the book Burn Out, to share a section of the chapter on Bitterness.

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Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism Registration is open and programme is online! Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: F...

Looking forward to going to Historical Materialism in London next month. Will be speaking on the "Political Pathologies: revolutionary and counter-revolutionary approaches to mental health" panel.

www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/twenty...

Corporate profit for health is one of those things... It just irks me to know I'm paying investors for my dog's life. Otherwise I wouldn't mind.

My dog is old. I'm so grateful that I can afford to treat her but OMG! Just been hit by one of those vet bills... I don't know how people are keeping their pets alive in this economy.

Also, vets have been bought by corporations who pay profits to investors. Let that sink in.

Power in the Therapy Room A follow-up reflective session on Power in therapeutic work

💡Workshop: Power in Therapy
Dec 8th, 6 to 8pm
Concessions available

Building on the definitions and questions presented during the webinar, we will gather as a small group to reflect on how power dynamics have impacted both our lives and our work.

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We will be in conversation with Maria Laguna, exploring topics of migration, the negotiation of multiple identities and selves, including double consciousness, issues of power dynamics and complicity (including identification with the oppressor). Join us for a rich dialogue!

South Dialogues: On Migrant Subjectivities & Multiplicity A conversation on migration, navigating a multiplicity of identities and selves from an anti-oppressive perspective.

🚨 New event
South Dialogues: Migrant Subjectivity & Multiplicity

📌 Online via Zoom
Tuesday 20th January | 1.30pm to 3pm
Concessions available
Free for Community Members

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"We don’t just have a knowledge problem—we have a habit-of-being problem; the problem of whiteness is a problem of what we expect, our ways of being, bodily-ness, and how we understand ourselves as “placed” in time."
- Alexis Shotwell

Liberalism and Mental Health PART 3:  Entrepreneurship of the Self - South of Therapy Featured photo credit: Gilly I’ve been meaning to provide an introduction on notions of Self under our current systems and how this affects how people approach mental health. It is,

📝NEW BLOG
Therapy and Liberalism part 3: Entrepreneurship of the Self

Inundated with mandates to regulate and manage ourselves within this neoliberal system, we become navel gazers. There is no space left to consider the collective, the structural.

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Power in the Therapy Room A follow-up reflective session on Power in therapeutic work

Training: Power in the Therapy Room
Mon Dec 8th, 6 to 8pm
Following from the introductory webinar on Power, we will explore this topic more in-depth by delving into the aspects of lived experience and power that can impact on therapeutic work.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/power-in-t...

Membership | Lucia Sarmiento Verano Hi, thank you for visiting my Community Page. I hold regular meetings and reading groups for community members and provide a monthly newsletter with resources and reflective prompts on the topics of o

If you are interested in joining a community of like-valued practitioners: buymeacoffee.com/sarmientover...

... and more events to be added as they are organised! Developing our ethical practice from an anti-oppressive approach is best done in community. Let's make this a space for emerging consciousness!

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The upcoming meetings schedule for our South of Therapy Community of Practice have been set for the 2025/2026 period. Complete with monthly newsletters that include reflections and resources for us to discuss.

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They are a given, so we can either work WITH that, or deny our power as therapists and let the field become fertile ground for harm.
I am convinced this conversation needs to be openned now, and it can lead to more ethical and safer practices.
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This needs to change. We need to be talking more about Power and it's effects on people's mental and emotional wellbeing both at an interpersonal and structural level. For that we also need to attend to the power imbalances within therapeutic relationships themselves. 2/

Questions of power in therapy are often missed in training and CPD. However, they are inherently linked to much of the work we do. We are prepared to deal with power and harm in interpersonal dynamics, but our profession often doesn't include structural and social perspectives.1/

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Ce profil est 100% anti-colonial,l et pro-Palestine. Ici on considère que le colonialisme ne s'est jamais arrêté dans nos territoires su Sud, et que ces assemblages oppressifs sont toujours en marche pour assurer l'exploitation matérielle et l'écrasement mental de nos peuples.
Voilou 😌

Voilà. Si vous voulez apprendre un peu plus sur cette approche je vous invite a jeter un coup d'œil sur le blog (en anglais car je vis et je travaille au Royaume-Uni):

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Pour comprendre le processus émotionnel de quelqu'un il faut prendre en compte le contexte dans lequel évolue la personne, et l'impact présent et intergénérationnel des structures et violences sociales.

Mon doctorat explore l'expérience vécue et l'identité personnes métisses au Pérou.
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Bienvenue aux francophones qui m'ont suivi aujourd'hui 😊

Je suis une thérapeute et doctorante Peruvienne, qui se spécialise en santé mentale d'un point de vue social et anti-oppresion.
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Heureusement je ne suis pas seule 😊 les réseaux m'ont permis de trouver d'autres personnes engagées dans ce mouvement, comme vous. Ça donne envie de continuer !

Merci beaucoup Maria 🙏

Contact | Lucia Sarmiento Verano | Oxford & Online Limited availability for online work. I am also able to provide referrals to practitioners working within the same approach. Please enquire.

- to support you in remaining true to yourself, and find your own definition of wellbeing.

Current availability for online therapy that is socially conscious and social justice oriented. Get in touch via the LINK IN BIO of here: www.luciasarmientoverano.com/contact/

Contact | Lucia Sarmiento Verano | Oxford & Online Limited availability for online work. I am also able to provide referrals to practitioners working within the same approach. Please enquire.

- attuned to different needs: Aware and attuned to your cultural differences or willing to adapt to your neurotype’s way of relationship-building.
A space that refuses standardised ways to offer support.

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Dreaming of therapeutic spaces:

- grounded in social realities: Where family dynamics are considered as much as systemic dynamics, internalised messages we get from society, historical and intergenerational trauma, and the real impact of resource inaccessibility on our wellbeing.

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Training - South of Therapy If you are an individual practitioner interested in training please head on to the EVENTS page for more information on upcoming training events. I am a Humanistic Psychotherapist working in

If you are looking into CPD events for your group practice or as an added offering for your trainees, feel free to contact me about this or other topics I cover.
From a decolonial and anti-oppressive lens, I offer spaces to gently challenge and reflect on our practices.
southoftherapy.com/training/

Happy to have delivered this event on Class & Intersections in Therapy for a training institution earlier this week! What an open and engaged group it was, I am grateful once more for this opportunity.

Power in the Therapy Room A follow-up reflective session on Power in therapeutic work

Training: Power in the Therapy Room
Mon Dec 8th, 6 to 8pm
Following from the introductory webinar on Power, we will explore this topic more in-depth by delving into the aspects of lived experience and power that can impact on therapeutic work.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/power-in-t...