A warm space to explore your experiences, your identity and your relationships.
Hi, I'm Michelle Lin
I warmly welcome you to therapy group practice I started in 2019 after being frustrated by the moral injury and exploitation of working for NGOs and other people’s private practices. We mainly provide individual and relationship counselling, and individual and group supervision both in-person and online via telehealth.
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. My goal for this organisation is to create a therapy practice that operates as ethically and anti-oppressively (including anti-capitalistically) as possible for both clients and staff.
We aren’t perfect but have a growth mindset of
anti-perfectionism – to keep fearlessly trying new things to improve both service-delivery for clients and quality of life for staff, and if anything doesn’t work then we reflect, repair and try something new.
We value lived/living experience alongside training and professional wisdom and experience. We have people who: identify as disabled, speak fluent Chinese (Mandarin & Cantonese), have lived/living experience of sex work, as a neurodivergent queer parent, a queer immigrant, and more.
Let us know if there’s any specific experiences you would like your worker to be able to understand/relate to, and we can see who would be the right fit.
You can have a browse of our current staff roster here:
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 theoretical frameworks 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.