Cassandra Geisel (she/her)
@cassandrageisel.bsky.social
Canadian living in London. Therapist. Community mental health. Suicide prevention. Alliance building across sectors. Co-production. Critical. Curious. Passionate about starting mindful conversations around mortality and grief. ✨
Happening this Friday! onlinevents.co.uk/event/the-un...
The Unshaming Way - David Bedrick
The Unshaming Way, A TaSC Seminar with David Bedrick Shame affects us all…often in ways […]
onlinevents.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Happening this Friday! onlinevents.co.uk/event/the-un...
October 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
@emmyvandeurzen.bsky.social speaking at Kingsley Hall, location of one of R.D. Laing’s most remembered experiment. Thank you Compassionate Mental Health for organising such a great day reflecting on the impact of therapeutic communities and alternatives for people with lived experience of psychosis.
October 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
@emmyvandeurzen.bsky.social speaking at Kingsley Hall, location of one of R.D. Laing’s most remembered experiment. Thank you Compassionate Mental Health for organising such a great day reflecting on the impact of therapeutic communities and alternatives for people with lived experience of psychosis.
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WFH kitty 🐈⬛
May 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
WFH kitty 🐈⬛
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Uncovering the true aim of therapy is a vital part of the therapeutic process. It must emerge collaboratively, not be imposed externally before the work begins (e.g. when services prioritise outcomes like 'return to work'). When this happens, you're being co-opted, not helped.
May 11, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Uncovering the true aim of therapy is a vital part of the therapeutic process. It must emerge collaboratively, not be imposed externally before the work begins (e.g. when services prioritise outcomes like 'return to work'). When this happens, you're being co-opted, not helped.
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We want to come together to address injustices and inequalities of racism through personal and collective work on the impact of Whiteness.
Examining Whiteness Saturday, 7 June
This is an in-person event in Brighton for therapists only.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/examining-...
#TherapistsConnect
Examining Whiteness Saturday, 7 June
This is an in-person event in Brighton for therapists only.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/examining-...
#TherapistsConnect
Examining Whiteness
We want to come together to address injustices and inequalities of racism through personal and collective work on the impact of Whiteness.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 16, 2025 at 7:07 AM
We want to come together to address injustices and inequalities of racism through personal and collective work on the impact of Whiteness.
Examining Whiteness Saturday, 7 June
This is an in-person event in Brighton for therapists only.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/examining-...
#TherapistsConnect
Examining Whiteness Saturday, 7 June
This is an in-person event in Brighton for therapists only.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/examining-...
#TherapistsConnect
www.newyorker.com/culture/essa... brilliant essay by Hanif Abdurraqib
In Defense of Despair
The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be so.
www.newyorker.com
May 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
www.newyorker.com/culture/essa... brilliant essay by Hanif Abdurraqib
Austerity of the imagination is upon us. Inundated with ways to dissociate, it is really painful to turn towards the horizon of what we’re navigating. We’re watching systems collapsing and are bereft by the task of trying to dream up creative alternatives in the wake of all the devastation.
May 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Austerity of the imagination is upon us. Inundated with ways to dissociate, it is really painful to turn towards the horizon of what we’re navigating. We’re watching systems collapsing and are bereft by the task of trying to dream up creative alternatives in the wake of all the devastation.
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“Be a shadow and hope that you do not die.”
A frightening & thorough account of immigrants avoiding medical care by @jsgatnyt.bsky.social et al @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/h...
A frightening & thorough account of immigrants avoiding medical care by @jsgatnyt.bsky.social et al @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/h...
Migrants Are Skipping Medical Care, Fearing ICE, Doctors Say
www.nytimes.com
May 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
“Be a shadow and hope that you do not die.”
A frightening & thorough account of immigrants avoiding medical care by @jsgatnyt.bsky.social et al @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/h...
A frightening & thorough account of immigrants avoiding medical care by @jsgatnyt.bsky.social et al @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/h...
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Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
May 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Reposted by Cassandra Geisel (she/her)
You can donate to support the BC Filipino community here: filipinobc.com/donate
April 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
You can donate to support the BC Filipino community here: filipinobc.com/donate
This should terrify us all. The increased carcerality in mental health care along with the impunity of the current administration is a recipe for disaster. Or is it the case that institutions such as these are now just saying what they’ve always done on the tin? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The United States is witnessing the return of psychiatric imprisonment | Jordyn Jensen
From ‘wellness farms’ to expanded involuntary commitment policies, the US is embracing psychiatric incarceration under the guise of compassion
www.theguardian.com
April 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This should terrify us all. The increased carcerality in mental health care along with the impunity of the current administration is a recipe for disaster. Or is it the case that institutions such as these are now just saying what they’ve always done on the tin? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
