Therapy? Shmerapy.

Therapy Shmerapy is a grassroots, national peer mental health service built on the reality of lived experience. Because our entire team is neurodivergent and trans/gender-diverse, we understand how forced and unnatural it feels to share your world within a rigid, one-sided medical system. We’ve moved away from that clinical distance to connect with you as people first, instead of clinician first.

Our approach is rooted in mad pride and the belief that much of what is dismissed as "illness" is actually a valid response to a broken world. We believe mental health support should be accessible, so we’ve kept our fees lower than the average out-of-pocket cost for a psychologist or standard counsellor.

We are available via telehealth across so-called “Australia” and abroad, offering a genuine alternative to clinical services that often miss the point.

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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 familial or cultural expectations
- Experiencing discrimination and oppression
- Gender dysphoria and euphoria
- Gender exploration, questioning, transition support
- Exploring where queerness intersects with neurodivergence, race, culture, or faith.
- Navigating internalised homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia.
- Navigating queer relationships, alternative relationship structures (like ethical non-monogamy), and queer family planning.
- Queer/trans community connection and grief
- Later-in-life discovery
- Living with Tourette’s, OCD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, PDA, or other neurotypes
- Alternate experiences of reality, thinking, or feeling - including psychosis, plurality, and dissociation
- Unpacking a history of misdiagnosis, identifying your actual needs, and exploring accommodations at work or study
- Reframing neurodivergence as difference, not disorder
- Understanding sensory sensitivities, differences in interoception (reading bodily cues), and processing styles that don’t fit neat diagnostic boxes
- 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.
- Unpacking internalised “isms”
- Holding trauma, injustice, and world collapse without shutting down
- 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