What is Peer Counseling?
Community work by us, for us. We live in our truth and honor yours by providing free, confidential, and compassionate spaces to process, vent, and grow without limit.
A space where we can make room for our stories and hold each other in the process. A model that removes the boundaries met by finances, insurance, and practitioners that make you feel like “other”. We acknowledge that these services are a necessary human right.
Peer Counseling allows us to bring thought into action: A community based example of how we move and shift away from oppressive structures that have limited our capacities to heal.
All of our counselors are members of the communities they serve, engage in continuous personal education, and accept that we are both student and teacher simultaneously.
We empower one another by standing firm in our identities and how they influence our experiences. We share similar lived experiences with you and recognize the importance of relatability in work rooted so deeply in our identities.
Why Peer Support?
We negate the notion that systems that harm us can heal us. By doing community work, by us, for us, we can provide connection, reflection, and validation that can be tools for transformation.
Mental health services have been built on the pillars of Cis-Het White Supremacist notions of Illness rather than seeing the impact systems have had on the individual. Peer Counseling allows us to build community and focus on individual growth away from these pillars.
Our ancestors had it right all along: community care, story telling, connection, and holding space can be our source of change, rooted in love.
We can conceptualize a world where we care for one another out of love, personal education, and accountability. Credentials do not bridge this gap. Community can.
The power of recovery and reflection is something we each maintain. We believe in sharing our tools, knowledge, and experiences to aid one another in our journey to healing.
What does Peer Support do?
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Establish connection with community
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Tangible services to those with limited access to mental health resources
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Reduction of psychiatric incarceration
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Community, Not Cops, as a response to Crisis
Peer Support Values
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Shared Experience
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Self-determination
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Choice
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Mutuality
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Authenticity
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Accountability
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Direct Communication
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Critical Learning
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Relationship Building
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Social Change
How does Peer Counseling Work?
We honor your agency and encourage your right to choose someone who you resonate with. At Fearless Femme 100 you get the option to read about our Peer Counselors politics and frameworks to inform your decision. The power to heal and process should always come with agency.
We provide a one on one space for folks with similar identities. By holding space for one another, we can revitalize and reinvigorate one another to reinvision what a world without carceral responses are while keeping one another safe, healthy, heard, and healing.
We honor and respect your vulnerability to share your stories with us. We abide by confidentiality - meaning what you say to us, stays with us.
