Consulting
for professionals working in mental health and media
I am now offering professional-to-professional consulting services to those whose work touches on mental health and/or trans healthcare, both clinicians and fellow media professionals … Meaning all those who work with patients, including: psychiatrists, therapists, counselors, social workers, life-coaches, faith-based counselors, and other [mental] health care professionals, especially those who work with trans/gnc people and/or related to (emergency) mental health care (like EMTs, ERs, nurses) as well as fellow media professionals (editors, journalists, producers) …
I can be hired to work with your and your colleagues to discuss such topics as …
Our present mental health care paradigm as a whole, historically and at present … as well as possible better futures.
How to best and most humanely work within and/or without it …
Including how we factor in our own biases and own mental health while doing such emotionally taxing work.
For practitioners, how to best support trans and other gender-nonconforming patients during these times.
Media professionals: Consider hiring me to improve and update your “mental health care”-related coverage and/or trans-related coverage.
If you are interested in potentially hiring me to consult for you or your group:
Please contact me so I can learn more about your situation. I can share my rate, which is sliding scale. For those who want to work with me: I do offer a free 15-minute phone or video chat, for a preliminary discussion. I also offer some pro bono consulting work as well, so, please let me know if that’s your request. For free work, I will highly prioritize non-profit/low-income trans / gnc practitioners /-led orgs (and others belonging to marginalized identities), especially peer-led alternative mental health care organizations.
*Note, I am not offering nor qualified to offer individual nor group counseling to non-mental health professionals. If anybody who’s not a professional in these fields does inquire anyway, at best I will likely just send some of my previous writings about finding qualified professionals and other such support that suits you.
If you want to work with me, please reach out. I will get back to you as soon as I can to schedule your free fifteen minutes.
Anyone newer to my work might want to check out this page of Starter Packs — where I’ve curated my previously published works by topic. In particular, I highly recommend anyone who’s not already read my acclaimed debut book: A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story about Schizophrenia (published by Scribner) … And/or read my in-depth feature on this fractured “mental health care” information space, which was published last fall in The Believer. (It focuses on ECT/electroshock in our society and popular culture — and the group of patients who self-identify as “shock survivors.”) You may also want to consider subscribing to my newsletter, What’s Helping Today.
Client testimonials
“Thank you so much for your presence, wisdom, humor and awesomeness! I think it was a really wonderful experience for the team and an important conversation to have and continue! Thank you thank you!” - director of a therapy practice where I consulted
“I can not thank you enough for your time and sharing your story with us today. It was an incredible experience for the team, and the out pour of response is incredible. Sandy we will be sharing all your links with the team. Thank you again, for brining light into our day.” - corporate speaking client
“I wanted to send you a note to say that I rode the subway this morning standing next to a young man who was reading your book. He was riveted … ” - editor at major news org who consulted me re: mental health coverage.
Visit this page for much more fan mail.
