It’s a free knowledge library about what happens when disability is taken seriously in psychotherapy – in theory, in the therapy relationship and in the therapy room. It looks at what different approaches offer disabled people, where they can misread disability, and what might help.

It isn’t an anti-therapy project. It exists because psychotherapy matters enough to examine carefully. Read more about the site.

The site is written and run by Casey, a disabled psychotherapist, researcher and writer. It’s currently a one-person project, which is worth knowing if a reply takes a little while.

Disabled people, therapists and trainees, supervisors, researchers, carers and family members – and anyone curious about how psychological ideas meet real bodies and real lives. Some pages lean towards therapists and some towards people thinking about their own therapy; most are written to be useful to both.

Good starting points: Resources for Disabled People, Resources for Therapists and What Is Psychotherapy?

No. Everything on the site is free to read. If you’d like to help keep it going, there’s a donation page, but there’s no obligation and no content is held back.

No. The site offers information, ideas and reflection. It can’t assess your situation or give individual clinical advice, and reading it isn’t the same as working with a therapist who knows you.

Messages through the contact form are welcome, but they can’t be answered as individual therapy or clinical advice, and they aren’t monitored for urgent replies. If something is worrying you about your own therapy, it can often help to raise it with your therapist directly, or with their professional body if that feels necessary.

Casey offers online psychotherapy through a separate practice. Details, fees and how to book a free consultation are at caseydonaghey.com.

The site doesn’t keep a directory or make referrals. Professional bodies’ directories are a good place to start – for example the IACP in Ireland, or BACP and UKCP in the UK. The Accessibility in Psychotherapy Practice page has questions you could ask a therapist before you start.

No. The “You might recognise this” voices, dialogues and case examples are illustrative composites written for the site. They are not quotations from individuals, they are not drawn from Casey’s clients, and they are not findings from a study. Each page labels them that way.

Pages try to keep three things separate: what a theorist actually wrote, what research has found, and the site’s own interpretation or synthesis. Most pages end with an “Evidence and status” section that says which is which. Where we haven’t found research on a question, the page says so rather than implying it doesn’t exist.

The Evidence, Critiques & Contemporary Humanistic Therapy page shows this approach in more detail.

Please say so through the contact form, ideally with the page and, if you have one, a source. Corrections are taken seriously and pages are updated when something is inaccurate.

Disagreement is welcome too. The site isn’t meant to be a new doctrine; it’s meant to be a conversation.

The site mostly uses identity-first language (“disabled people”), in line with the social model of disability, which locates much of disability in barriers rather than in the person. Many people prefer person-first language (“people with disabilities”) or other terms, and those preferences are respected. In therapy, the person’s own words for themselves matter most.

You’re welcome to link to any page and to quote short passages with a credit and a link. If you’d like to use larger sections – for example in training materials or a publication – please ask first.

Please let us know. Problems with layout, contrast, screen readers, mobile use or anything else are worth reporting through the contact form – a site about accessible therapy should be accessible itself.

Yes – the Forum is the place for discussion with other readers.