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Brennan Holt (he/him) and thanks for asking
@brennanholt.bsky.social
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Person-centred trainer, aspiring student. What if Psychology we know is mostly oppressive colonial baggage? Conceptualising white supremacist patriarchal ableism as incongruence and working collaboratively towards empathic reparations. Basketball in Hove.
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feministtherapynet.bsky.social
Start of September - a new season; a new term for some of us. If you are looking for ways to connect with other therapists/ feminists this autmumn, have a look at our upcoming events and gatherings! Full details via bio
#TherapistSky
#TherapistsConnect
#FeministTherapy
A text-heavy flyer. The heading reads 'Coming up this autumn!' and is followed by: Online reading group Subversive Dialogues: theory in feminist therapy. Begins September 19th Community conversations – online and peer-led: Taking Care of Trans Folks: responsibilities and allyship, 26th Sept 4pm Dual Relationships 21st October 6pm Reclaiming a Feminist Therapeutics, 27th November 7pm The Feminist Imagination in Therapy In-person all day event on Saturday 11th October Writing As Coalition Building: a feminist writing group for clinicians Monthly online group on the second Sunday of the month, 2-4pm UK time, starting in November 2025. Perspectives in Feminist Therapy 25 hour introductory online course beginning November. Applications open. Black Feminism and Womanism: therapeutic perspectives Next course running in Spring 2026. Opening for applications in autumn
September 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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onlinevents.bsky.social
NEXT WEEK!
Black Women Therapists: Challenging the 'Strong Black Woman' Archetype - LIVE event with Mary Pascall.

This event is LIVE only.
Use the link below to register.
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#therapistsConnect #training4therapists #counselling
Black Women Therapists: Challenging the 'Strong Black Woman' Archetype
Black Women Therapists: Challenging the 'Strong Black Woman' Archetype Workshop with Mary Pascall
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August 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM
brennanholt.bsky.social
"We put so much stock in communality that a different stance is understood as pathology." I can't see the imperative towards community. Conformity? Yeah. I think when anyone talks about what COULD be OUR superpower we should always acknowledge that it's not because it wouldn't make the system run
August 29, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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"To have a drag queen read a picture book is supposedly indoctrination, but ‘Beauty and the Beast’ can be shared in almost every home because apparently it’s fine to teach a three-year-old that sometimes you just have to love a man enough and he’ll come good."
archermagazine.com.au/2023/10/quee...
Queer fairy tales: Finding the 'fairies' in classic stories - Archer Magazine
Retelling is a means of refracting the white beam of light we’ve been given by the fairy tale canon, and revealing the rainbow within.
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August 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
brennanholt.bsky.social
Why does this picture show white tourists? Do we still really want to be equating privilege with deep and fulfilling joy?
psychologytoday.com Psychology Today @psychologytoday.com · Aug 28
"The happiest people aren't necessarily those who have figured out their grand purpose in life. They are the ones who have found meaningful ways to connect with others through activities that bring them joy." Here's why.
The Purpose-Happiness Connection
Think purpose leads to happiness? Not quite. The real key is connection—and your passions might be the secret bridge. Discover how "little-p" purpose fuels true joy.
www.psychologytoday.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
brennanholt.bsky.social
What if we, as therapists, conceptualised whiteness as a mental health condition and white supremacy and racist violence as merely it's most harmful presentation. Can we look at the other ways it presents?
#TherapistsConnect #Whiteness
August 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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My colleague Dr. Frances Basset and I are holding another group in early September in Brighton. If you're a therapist in the area involved in antiracism or anti-oppressive practice come along. We will be examining whiteness and its impacts as a group together.

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Examining Whiteness Sept. 6th 2025
We want to come together to address injustices and inequalities of racism through personal and collective work on the impact of Whiteness.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
August 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
brennanholt.bsky.social
What about the other moral heroes of old? Surely queen victoria will also be shedding tears over the debauching of her legacy?
libdems.org.uk Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · Aug 26
Nigel Farage wants to follow Putin and tear up our hard-won rights.
Photo of Daisy Cooper MP. Quote from Cooper "Of course Nigel Farage wants to follow his idol Vladimir Putin in ripping up the human rights convention. Winston Churchill would be turning in his grave. Doing so would only make it harder for each of us as individuals to hold the government to account and stop it trampling on our freedoms." DAISY COOPER MP
August 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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feministtherapynet.bsky.social
The Feminist Imagination in Therapy is an in-person, one-day event for anyone who would like to think about ways of bridging the political and personal in therapy. Join us for a day of discussion and imagination! Ticket link in bio.
#Feminism
#TherapistSky
#TherapistsConnect
A flyer for The Feminist Imagination in Therapy. Text reads: An event for therapists trying to bridge the personal and political – a day of figuring it out together. Saturday October 11th 2025 10am – 5pm Islington, London Hot lunch included 7-hour CPD certification There are photographs of Dr Lola Olufemi and Micha Frazer-Carroll with more text next the the photographs: Presentations and provocations from: Dr. Lola Olufemi (Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power; Experiments in Imagining Otherwise) Micha Frazer-Carroll (Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health) With time for discussion, and exploring questions through reflective dialogue / art-making practices. Come and join us in imagining how else we might practice - the personal is still political!
August 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
brennanholt.bsky.social
I had to see it to believe it. All over sussex white people have created their own communities, their own schools where whitewashed history is taught exclusively and the royal family is celebrated along with britains colonial history.
August 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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#smallboats
August 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
brennanholt.bsky.social
Just saw that Brighton has five "thoughtful therapists" for trans conversion therapy. One of them runs one of the largest low cost counselling and placement services in town.
#TherapistsConnect #Brighton #Hove
August 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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annmemmott.bsky.social
Latest reading material. Neurodiversity Affirming Practices in Early Childhood by Kerry Murphy. (Routledge 2025). Pic is a photo of the front cover.
August 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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charlotlaveau.bsky.social
Happy birthday Marsha P. Johnson, visionary and fiery Black trans activist who birthed a movement. She’d by 80 today, and should still be alive.

Her legacy is one of revolutionary advocacy for global LGBTQ+ liberation. Her life is a testament to the need for sex worker rights & decriminalization.
Black and white image of Marsha P Johnson. Her hair is blonde and she wears a fur coat over a sparkly black dress.
August 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
brennanholt.bsky.social
In Race Traitor, Noel Ignatiev wrote that “treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.” Whiteness is a set of behaviours and actions. So is antiracism. We cannot change the colour of our skin. Luckily we do not have to.

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August 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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"In Race Traitor, Noel Ignatiev wrote that “treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.” In my experience, treason to whiteness is also trust and investment in the self"

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August 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
brennanholt.bsky.social
This what we do here at the Centre for Empathic Reparations. You show us a book you're reading and we monkey wrench your reading list in a direction we hope will widen and grow your capacity for empathy. Here you go.

#TherapistsConnect
A pink arrow pointing from the book the unbearable lightness of being to the book evenings and weekends
August 22, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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lolajaye.bsky.social
'Writing historical fiction is a way to tell untold stories of the past, shine a light on those who may otherwise have been lost to time & to show Black people in a way that challenges the stereotype.'
#booksky💙📚
#blackbooksky
#authors

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Writing Black Women in Historical Fiction by Lola Jaye
Lola Jaye, author of The Manual for Good Wives, on the Challenge of Writing Stories About Black Women in the Victorian Era.
www.writing.ie
February 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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feministtherapynet.bsky.social
Interested in finding out more about feminist therapy? Join our upcoming reading group to read and discuss Laura S. Brown's 'Subversive Dialogues'
- starts Sept 19th; third Friday of the month
- 3.30-5pm UK time, online
- open to all therapists and trainees

#FeministTherapy
#TherapistSky
Image of the front cover of Subversive Dialogues, Theory in Feminist Therapy by Laura S. Brown. Text next to the image reads: Interested in learning about feminist therapy? Join us to read and discuss this seminal text which addresses issues such as the power of the therapist, assessment and diagnosis, feminist ethics, and diversity practice. Online Third Friday of the month - starts September 19th 3.30pm - 5pm (UK time) Link to book/ find out more in bio
August 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Applications are now open for our Perspectives in Feminist Therapy course which runs online over ten sessions Nov - Feb

Full details and application in bio

#TherapistSky
#TherapistsConnect
#FeministTherapy
Green and white text based flyer which reads: perspectives in feminist therapy A ten-session course starting in November 25 hours of CPD Join us to learn more about feminist therapies, the relation between feminist therapy and social justice work, feminist therapy ethics and values and considerations for a contemporary feminist therapeutics. This course includes discussing writings from the broad spectrum of feminist scholarship and activism, including Black feminism, radical feminism, socialist feminism, eco-feminism, trans-feminism and politics of spirit feminism. Applications close 1st October. Details via bio.
August 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
brennanholt.bsky.social
My colleague Dr. Frances Basset and I are holding another group in early September in Brighton. If you're a therapist in the area involved in antiracism or anti-oppressive practice come along. We will be examining whiteness and its impacts as a group together.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/examining-...
Examining Whiteness Sept. 6th 2025
We want to come together to address injustices and inequalities of racism through personal and collective work on the impact of Whiteness.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
August 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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lgbtqwf.bsky.social
"There are things you can't reach. But you can reach out to them, and all day long. The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of love. Your own becoming."
#MaryOliver
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#LGBGTQ #Transrights #Brighton #Sussex #Communtiy #lovewins #queer
August 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
brennanholt.bsky.social
Thanks for the T-shirt and the welcome in your wonderful space to the women's library of Glasgow.
August 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
brennanholt.bsky.social
Slightly belated love shout to transpride Manchester for such a lovely event. Was great to hear the panelist's stories afterwards. Much love from cis Brighton.
August 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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lousadzak.bsky.social
“Cass-informed psychotherapy” is the new term for conversion therapy

God this is making me feel sick
emiliab.bsky.social EmiB71 @emiliab.bsky.social · Jul 31
#Transrights #NHS Hilary Cass has decided to show her full hand. She had Anna Hutchinson publish a paper titled "Cass informed psychotherapy for gender distressed children". Hutchinson submitted for publication with Taylor & Francis online, not surprisingly a publication which has had plenty of
July 31, 2025 at 8:28 AM