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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🚨DATE CHANGE🚨 The new date for this event is Monday 16th November See below for details 👇

Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“The mystification of whiteness as culture was formed through the opposition of “primitive” societies to a “modern” one... but just speaking of internalisation of these negative images, or reenactments seems quite simplistic and denies the agency of the colonised." southoftherapy.com/unlivable-so...

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Unlivable societies: on coloniality, whiteness and transgression - South of Therapy

Featured photo credit: Clay LeConey INTRODUCTION This is for all my Global South siblings. I am speaking from my experience of growing up in Peru, but I do suspect aspects

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🚨 NOW OPEN 🚨 The South of Therapy Community of Practice: A space for support & resources in your journey to develop an anti-oppressive praxis. A monthly newsletter with resources & reflective prompts, regular meetings, and a forum to exchange with other members.1/ buymeacoffee.com/sarmientover...

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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

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

📢 Webinar: Whiteness in Therapy 7th Sep - 6pm Pay what you can afford I'd like to say a bit more about it. I have been speaking about whiteness & colonialism in mental health for years &although the fundamentals have not changed, my focus has slightly shifted. 1/ www.eventbrite.com/e/1992567309...

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Webinar: Whiteness in Therapy

An introductory session to understand how whiteness shows up in the mental health field and possible avenues for resistance.

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

In two weeks 👇 Pay what you can afford tickets

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

🚨Next in the South Dialogues series Class as Proximity to Harm: a conversation followed by an open forum. 📌 Online via Zoom Monday 5th October | 5pm to 6.30pm (BST) Concessions available Free for Community Members Tickets include access to the recording www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/south-dial...

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South Dialogues: Class and proximity to harm

Exploring perspectives of class as proximity to harm and what mental health professionals might need to know to better support people.

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Language & Epistemic Injustice. The inequality in accessing language or discourses that help us make meaning, understand & communicate our experiences. Certain experiences are often invisibilised. Marginalised communities are excluded from spaces where discourse is produced.

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

📢 Power in Therapy The presentation I delivered is now up for you to watch on YouTube! About the links between the concept of Power in society and its impact on mental health... including how this may play up in therapeutic practice. Watch it here: youtu.be/rZ1ksisppOg?...

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Understanding Power in Therapeutic Practice - Lucia Sarmiento

YouTube video by Therapy and Social Change Network (TaSC) Network

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

📢 Last change to join at our current price point Our Community of Practice will soon turn 1 year old! Since its launch last September it has become a small but strong community providing spaces and resources to support therapists in their journey towards anti-oppressive practice. 1/

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Maria Christou @mariacervin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I think they are so @sarmientoverano.bsky.social niche 😉

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

📢 Webinar: Whiteness in Therapy Mon, 7th September 2026 Pay what you can afford *Free for Community of Practice members* An introductory session to understand how whiteness shows up in the mental health field and possible avenues for resistance. Join us: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-wh...

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Webinar: Whiteness in Therapy

An introductory session to understand how whiteness shows up in the mental health field and possible avenues for resistance.

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

📝New Blog! Unlivable Societies: on coloniality, whiteness and transgression Exploring colonised societies, and their complex interplay of subjection, oppression, agency and resistance, resulting in societies that seem to function based on dysfunction. southoftherapy.com/unlivable-so...

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Unlivable societies: on coloniality, whiteness and transgression - South of Therapy

Featured photo credit: Clay LeConey INTRODUCTION This is for all my Global South siblings. I am speaking from my experience of growing up in Peru, but I do suspect aspects

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Harm in therapy is not directly caused by Power difference in the room... it is caused by the disavowal of that Power. We need to do away with this illusion that we can equalise power in the room so we can learn to take responsibility for what we do and how we relate without defensiveness.

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

OK next newsletter will be sent out soon. These come sporadically with new writings, announcements on upcoming events/goodies, and extra resources on decolonial thinking and anti-oppression I've found online. Curated by moi. Subscribe here: 56b49e48.sibforms.com/v2/serve/MUI...

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

🚨Next in the South Dialogues series: a conversation followed by an open forum on topics relating to mental health, anti-oppression and justice. On Intersections of Disability, Race and Class 📌 Online via Zoom Monday 1st June | 3pm to 4.30pm (BST) Concessions available Free for Community Members 1/

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

New offering coming soon: Deconstructing Our Therapist Identities, a reflective group. A closed group for South of Therapy Community members to question our relationship with our work, power, privilege and oppression. A space born from one of our community conversations. 1/

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Entered an existencial crisis over my PhD after a tricky couple of supervisions. A menty B as gen Z would say. Mr. Man listened to the detailed explanation of my research as if he weren't bored out of his mind & then said "why are you crying over a thesis nobody will read anyway?" I calmed down.

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

🚨 NEW BLOG: Reflections on Therapeutic Love Beyond what we have learned about therapeutic skills... What does it mean to BE WITH others in ways that don’t reproduce current views on the individual? southoftherapy.com/reflections-...

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Reflections On Therapeutic Love - South of Therapy

Featured photo credit: Pourya Gohari “I found myself an object among other objects” (Fanon, 2021, p.89) Beyond western boundaries and notions of “professionalism”, lies a world of possibilities. BEING...

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

While I untertake a supervision course I will be offering group and individual supervision (starting April). Relational, anti-oppressive lens & experience working with migrants and neurodivergent clients. If you are interested please contact me via my website: www.luciasarmientoverano.com/contact/

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

"Exceptionalism" is a shared self-description of imperial forms and ... every empire imagines itself an exception." - Ann Laura Stoler

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Perspectives ON GUILT: In individualistic perspective on Mental Health, guilt is often talked about as an emotion that needs to be worked through and dispelled. The chronic presence of guilt may be pathologised. 1/

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

New blog: Monotropism, Limerence & Autistic & ADHD Experiences. Exploring: • Deep focus • Emotional intensity • Flow • Burnout • Regulation Through a neuroaffirming lens. Find out more: autisticrealms.com/monotropism-...

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Monotropism, Limerence And Autistic ADHD Experiences | Autistic Realms

Limerence in Autistic and ADHD people may be shaped by monotropism, a natural tendency toward deep focus and emotional intensity. Rather than being unhealth ...

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Today is my father's birthday. On the 7th of January 2018, I received a call from a French hospital to tell me my father had been in a coma for four days following a fall, and he was now dead. They needed my permission to collect his organs for donation. 1/

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

My latest: Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-pr...

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Iranian protesters don't owe us an explanation

Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

💬Subjectivity and Coloniality in Peru Wed 28th Jan - 5pm Free tickets I will be hosted by the APS to talk about my research so far. I am trying to understand mestize negotiations with this context: reproduction of colonial violence and resistance to it. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/becoming-w...

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Becoming what we eat: Subjectivity and Coloniality in Peru

Join us for the next seminar in our APS Emerging Scholars series, with Lucia Sarmiento on mestize subjectivity and food.

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Mental Health care? Trust me, you don't need another scented candle... ... you need to dismantle internalised oppression.

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I truly need a timeline that is less US centric but having to work in English makes it difficult!

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Last chance to book your tickets! Pay what you can afford option still available 👇

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

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Becoming what we eat: Subjectivity and Coloniality in Peru

Join us for the next seminar in our APS Emerging Scholars series, with Lucia Sarmiento on mestize subjectivity and food.

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

📌 Blogs that express the ethos of the South of Therapy project 3/3 It’s A White Woman’s World – Group Whiteness in Process About group process in therapy training. (also one of the most popular pieces on the blog) southoftherapy.com/its-a-white-...

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It’s A White Woman’s World – Group Whiteness in Process - South of Therapy

Featured photo credit: Teslariu Mihai I don’t want this text to be read as “I didn’t like group process so now I’m making a disparaging piece about it”. Rather, this

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The South of Therapy project turns 5 today! To celebrate we will be sharing the 3 blog pieces that most represent the Ethos of this community in our stories (keep an eye out on the next 3 days!).

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

An anti-oppressive perspective on Perfectionism: Wanting to improve and live in alignement with our values is not a bad thing per se. However, perfectionism implies that we can, with enough effort, be perfect. This is unattainable. 1/

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

There are still concession tickets available. These are pay what you can afford tickets, they are right at the bottom of the list so you have to scroll down 👇

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

🚨 In two weeks! South Dialogues: Migrant Subjectivity & Multiplicity 📷 Online via Zoom Tuesday 20th January | 1.30pm to 3pm Free for Community Members Tickets include recording www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/south-dial...

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South Dialogues: On Migrant Subjectivities & Multiplicity

A conversation on migration, navigating a multiplicity of identities and selves from an anti-oppressive perspective.

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Questions to therapists shouldn't be considered out of bounds. Curiosity about your therapist's experience can be a natural consequence of sitting with them in vulnerable moments in your life. 1/

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Christmas can be such a hard time for many ND people. The social aspect of it, overstimulating environments, crowds everywhere, expectations on behaviour and feelings (yes, we are supposed to FEEL a certain way about it) and the performance around gifts... 1/

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

📢 Webinar: Neurodivergence: an anti-oppressive perspective Mon, 9th February 2026 Pay what you can afford Understanding our experiences within a social and historical context. *Free for Community of Practice members* www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-ne...

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Webinar: neurodivergence, an anti-oppressive perspective

Understanding our experiences within a social and historical context.

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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. 1/

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

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...

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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...

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Lucia Sarmiento Verano @sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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.

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