KANGAROO MINDS

Therapy is often described as a safe space - a place built around healing, trust, emotional honesty, and vulnerability. And for many people, it can absolutely become that. Therapy can offer life-changing support, emotional insight, safety, regulation, validation, and healing in ways that deeply matter. But one of the most uncomfortable truths about therapy is that even in healthy therapeutic relationships, there is still an inherent power imbalance present, and pretending tha

Therapy has helped countless people understand themselves more deeply, process trauma, navigate grief, improve relationships, regulate emotions, and feel less alone in their struggles. Conversations around mental health becoming more normalized has been an important and necessary shift in a world where emotional suffering was often silenced for far too long. For many people, therapy creates the first space where they feel truly heard without judgment. But like any deeply infl

Therapy is often described as a safe space. A place where people can speak honestly, feel heard, process emotions, question patterns, and explore difficult experiences without fear of judgment. For many people, therapy genuinely can become one of the most healing relationships they experience, especially in a world where emotional vulnerability is often misunderstood or dismissed elsewhere. But conversations around therapy and mental health spaces have increasingly become so

One of the most common responses people hear when discussing harmful experiences in therapy or mental health spaces is this: “Therapists are human too.” - And that statement is absolutely true. Mental health professionals are human beings first - They can have bad days, blind spots, emotional reactions, personal struggles, biases, countertransference, communication failures, burnout, limitations, and moments where they genuinely get things wrong. No amount of education or tra

Therapy is often built around a powerful idea: that healing becomes possible when people are finally given space to feel heard, understood, validated, and emotionally safe. Clients are encouraged to reflect honestly, acknowledge mistakes, explore blind spots, repair relationships, sit with discomfort, and develop greater self-awareness. But one of the most uncomfortable questions mental health spaces rarely discuss openly enough is this: what happens when the therapist strug

There is a common assumption surrounding mental health professionals that feels deeply comforting, but also potentially dangerous: the belief that people who work in mental health are automatically emotionally healthy, self-aware, ethical, safe, and incapable of causing harm in deeply personal ways. After all, these are the people trained to help others navigate emotions, relationships, trauma, healing, boundaries, communication, and psychological wellbeing. Many clients ente