Therapy? Shmerapy.

Therapy Shmerapy is a grassroots, national peer mental health service, offering support rooted in our shared lived and living experiences. Because our team is entirely neurodivergent and trans/gender-diverse, we get it, and we know exactly how unnatural it feels to share your deepest vulnerabilities with a stranger. That’s why we reject the rigid, one-sided Western medical model, choosing instead to connect with you as real, whole people.

Our approach is grounded in mad pride, neurodiversity, and the firm belief that much of what is labelled "illness" is actually a completely valid response to a broken world. By keeping our fees lower than the average psychologist’s out-of-pocket costs and standard counselling rates, we provide a genuinely accessible, affordable alternative to clinical services that miss the mark.

We are available via telehealth across so-called “Australia” and abroad.

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Our Focus Areas

- Building neurodivergent-friendly routines & boundaries
- Executive functioning support (working memory, tasks, motivation)
- Exploring non-linear productivity & rest cycles
- Reframing “procrastination,” motivation & burnout
- Rejection sensitivity & impulsivity
- PMDD (Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder)
- Work anxiety.
- Burnout, shutdowns, meltdowns
- Executive functioning support (planning, energy, time-blindness)
- Honouring special interests (SPINs) and routine as regulation
- Navigating systems that weren’t built for us
- Sensory processing, overload, and access needs
- Social differences, boundaries, and misattunement
- Unmasking, identity grief, and late discovery
- Coming out, navigating family or cultural expectations
- Experiencing discrimination and oppression
- Gender dysphoria
- Gender exploration, questioning, transition support
- Internalised homophobia or transphobia
- Navigating queer relationships
- Queer/trans community connection and grief
- Living with Tourette’s, OCD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, PDA, or other neurotypes
- "Not-quite-right" experiences of thinking, feeling, or perceiving
- Navigating misdiagnosis
- Reframing neurodivergence as difference, not disorder
- Sensory processing differences that don’t fit diagnostic criteria
- Support for people questioning or relating to psychosis, plurality, or dissociation
- Unpacking internalised ableism and shame
- Burnout and exhaustion from capitalism, activism, or identity-based harm
- The impacts of disability and/or chronic health challenges on wellbeing.
- Creating space for grief, anger, or numbness
- Guilt around rest, asking for help, or saying no
- Holding trauma, injustice, and world collapse without shutting down
- Reconnecting with pleasure, play, and creativity
- Rejecting self-optimisation, hustle culture, toxic positivity and toxic masculinity
- Wellbeing rooted in access, justice, and collective care
- Complex trauma from childhood, families, institutions, or cultural systems
- Experiences of dissociation, self-harm, or suicidality
- Healthcare trauma, misdiagnosis, institutionalisation, gaslighting
- Intergenerational trauma, breaking cycles, and reconnecting with culture
- Navigating trauma that doesn't fit into neat boxes (e.g. spiritual abuse, system fatigue)
- Rebuilding self-trust, boundaries, and a sense of safety
- Vicarious trauma