Therapy is a procedure done by qualified profesionals, and QueerCare is not set up to provide it inernally. We do not train or insure anyone to carry out therapy for people.
While you can provide a listening ear, and advise people on things which may help, and even carry out a Mental health intervention, you are broadly focused on helping people with basic understandings of their mental health(“you may be sad because you’ve not eaten recently, we could get some food?”), rather than helping them shape their thoughts as, for example, CBT may(“you’re feeling sad because you think about things like this instead of like that)) or trying to find fundemental insights into their brain as, for example, psychonalasis may(“You’re feeling sad because your mother never loved you”).
How to do therapy
Do not do therapy within queercare.
How not to do therapy
Active listen, if you’re asked a question that’s about how someone is thinking(“Do you know why I seeing things other people don’t near a landmark”):
- You must say you don’t know(“I’m not an expert and can’t tell you this”)
- You can offer possible explanations if there are any(“you’ve disclosed this traumatic experience near that landmark, and the things you’re describing describe could be flashbacks to that.”)
- You can offer basic mental health interventions, like grounding excercises, if the person asks(“Have you ever done a breathing excercise?”)
- You should signpost to someone with more knowlege(“We should maybe get you a therapist to help you figure it out and cope longer germ”)