A warm space to explore your experiences, your identity and your relationships.
Hi, I'm Michelle Lin
I warmly welcome you.
I started this therapy practice in 2019 after becoming frustrated by the moral injury and exploitation I experienced while working for NGOs and other people’s private practices.
The goal was to create a therapy practice that operates as ethically and anti-oppressively as possible, including anti-capitalist principles, for both clients and staff. Part of this commitment involves radical transparency in our therapeutic work with clients, as well as in our business practices and processes.
We value lived and living experience alongside training, professional wisdom and clinical experience. Our workers bring a range of identities, skills and experiences, including being disabled, speaking fluent Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), being aroace, having lived or living experience of sex work, being a neurodivergent queer parent, being a queer immigrant, and more.
You shouldn’t have to spend half your therapy session explaining why your identity matters.
In our practice, we work with people who are disabled, neurodivergent, queer, trans, people of colour, immigrants, parents, sex workers, asexual/aromantic, politically radical, or living at the intersections of many of these experiences.
This means therapy can start somewhere deeper.
You don’t have to justify your reality. You don’t have to educate your therapist before you can be supported. You don’t have to make yourself easier to understand.
You can bring your full self into the room — your identity, values, body, culture, relationships, survival strategies, grief, anger and joy.
Good therapy doesn’t ask you to leave parts of yourself at the door.
If you’re looking for affirming, identity-aware support, our therapists are here.
Let us know if there are specific experiences you would like your worker to understand or relate to, and we can help identify who may be the right fit. For personal safety reasons, some experiences and identities are not publicly disclosed on our profiles, but workers may choose to share more within the safety of a session with a client.
We mainly provide individual and relationship counselling, as well as individual and group supervision, both in person and online via telehealth.
We work with:
- Individuals aged 9 years and up
- Relationships, kinship groups and/or families of all types
You can browse our current staff roster here:
I am an anti-oppressive & social justice-oriented person working and living on the unceded land of the Bidjigal and Gadigal people that is colonially called Sydney NSW.
I communicate with warmth, curiosity, and openness—bringing both my personal lived experience and my professional experience to my work as counsellor, clinical supervisor, social worker and consultant living in the intersectionality of LGBTIQA+SB, neurodivergent (I use the neurodivergent paradigm, neuroaffirming practice & social model of disability), and person of colour.
I draw on a wide-range of approaches and therapeutic frameworks. At the centre of our work together is a relationship built on mutual openness, respect, safety and trust.
I believe community is the cure for society’s problems while therapy is not, but therapy can help you find or build it (or cope if you’re in a place without a sense of community/belonging).
You can click to learn more about me and my work below:
— Audre Lorde
Individual & relationship work
We offer individual and relationship counselling for people of all cultures, backgrounds, identities, experiences, and relationship types (romantic, friendships, family, parent-child, monogamy, multigamy/polyamory, relationship anarchists, queerplatonic, roommates and more.)
We welcome anyone who is willing to commit energy, effort and time into our work together and is prepared for the discomfort that comes from growth and healing.
Clinical
supervision
Michelle and Deb offer both individual and group supervision (self-funded and/or agency-funded.)
It is a relational, critically reflective, Anti-Oppressive focused, and trauma-and-violence-informed space for any level of experience from students, new grads, activists, and to more experienced peers working in any caring and helping roles such as (but not limited to) community workers, social workers, counsellors.
We may talk about moral injury, ethical dilemmas, use of self, career direction and more.
Community work + consultant
Michelle offers consultation, coaching, workshop facilitation on social work and counselling subjects such as trauma-informed, justice-oriented, anti-oppressive approaches.
Example: facilitating a trauma-and-violence-informed and anti-oppressive approach to conflict management in for-purpose workplaces.
Michelle can facilitate community accountability processes, restorative/transformative justice processes for people who have caused harm/who have been harmed, listening circles, and reflection spaces for adults.