Lucia Sarmiento Verano
@sarmientoverano.bsky.social
Anti-oppressive Therapist. PhD-ing at Birkbeck Uni on Coloniality & Mestizaje. Eurocentrism is a cage. Peruana. Culture navigator. Frañol is my mother tongue. Olympic Weightlifting. Autistic. She/Her linktr.ee/sarmientoverano
❓️ What is anti-oppressive therapy? 2/4 Political Well-being Our emotional & psychic experiences have a social & structural layer. Understanding how society impacts you & your relationships is part of the process. Well-being is personal, collective & political. #antioppression #liberationpsychology
What is Anti-oppressive practice? 1/4 A Relational Practice Anti-oppressive therapists do not aim to be neutral and do not claim that they hold no power in the space. We learn to work by being fully present & holding conversations about power. #antioppression #liberationpsychology
🚨Next in the South Dialogues series Class as Proximity to Harm: a conversation followed by an open forum. 📌 Online via Zoom Monday 19th November | 5pm to 6.30pm (BST) Concessions available Free for Community Members Tickets include access to the recording www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/south-dial...
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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📢 Workshop: Challenging Whiteness in Therapy 2nd November 2026 - 5pm to 7pm (BST) Concessions available LIMITED SPACES A workshop for therapists who want to start recognising and challenging whiteness and its harms from a relational and embodied perspective. www.eventbrite.com/e/challengin...
Challenging whiteness in therapy
A workshop for therapists who want to start recognising and challenging whiteness and its harms from a relational and embodied perspective.
eventbrite.com
📢 Workshop: Challenging Whiteness in Therapy 2nd November 2026 - 5pm to 7pm (BST) Concessions available LIMITED SPACES A workshop for therapists who want to start recognising and challenging whiteness and its harms from a relational and embodied perspective. www.eventbrite.com/e/challengin...
Challenging whiteness in therapy
A workshop for therapists who want to start recognising and challenging whiteness and its harms from a relational and embodied perspective.
eventbrite.com
🚨DATE CHANGE🚨 The new date for this event is Monday 16th November See below for details 👇
Lucia Sarmiento Verano@sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 3mo ago🚨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...
“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...
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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🚨 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...
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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📢 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...
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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In two weeks 👇 Pay what you can afford tickets
Lucia Sarmiento Verano@sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 4mo ago📢 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...
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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🚨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...
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.
eventbrite.co.uk
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.
📢 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?...
Understanding Power in Therapeutic Practice - Lucia Sarmiento
YouTube video by Therapy and Social Change Network (TaSC) Network
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📢 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/
📢 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...
Webinar: Whiteness in Therapy
An introductory session to understand how whiteness shows up in the mental health field and possible avenues for resistance.
eventbrite.co.uk
👇 For those from the Global South, and those who had to build a sense of self and an identity under a crushing dominant gaze: Read it here: southoftherapy.com/unlivable-so...
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
southoftherapy.com
Lucia Sarmiento Verano@sarmientoverano.bsky.social · 4mo ago📝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...
📝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...
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
southoftherapy.com
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.
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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🚨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/
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/
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.
🚨 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-...
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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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/
"Exceptionalism" is a shared self-description of imperial forms and ... every empire imagines itself an exception." - Ann Laura Stoler
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/
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-...
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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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/
