The dimensions the framework holds together

• Identity — disability as part of professional self, not separate from it. See Disabled Therapist Identity.
• Disclosure — chosen, forced, visible, or invisible. See Therapist Disability Disclosure.
• Training and institutions — what programmes assume, and what they cost disabled trainees. See Training Institutions and Disability.
• The therapeutic relationship — projection, countertransference, and symbolic space. See Therapeutic Relationship and Disability.
• Professional neutrality — what a visibly disabled therapist disrupts in that fiction. See Beyond Neutrality.

Working titles this framework has gone by

This project has circled the same territory under a few different names over time — Seen Before Heard, Beyond Lip Service, Rewriting the Archetype — before settling on The Disabled Therapist Framework as the umbrella term. Each earlier name captured something real: being perceived before being understood, the gap between stated values and institutional practice, and the work of reclaiming archetypal narratives rather than being defined by them.

Why a framework, not a set of separate topics

Each of the linked pages above can be read alone. But disabled therapists rarely experience these dimensions one at a time — disclosure decisions are shaped by training-era experiences, which shape how projection gets handled in the room, which shapes professional identity over years. The framework exists so the connections between these pages are visible, not just their individual content.

This sits alongside the book project, The Disabled Therapist, as its conceptual backbone.