Author: IAmKatyLees

Writer, reader, psychotherapist, cat-petter. The Trans Guide to Mental Health and Well-Being is out now! They/them/theirs. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamkatylees/

Welcoming 2025 with Fox Therapy

by IAmKatyLees, posted in Blogs, Updates

Now that 2025 is beginning, I’ve taken some time to reflect on what 2024 has looked like at Fox Therapy.

Kathryn – a white non-binary therapist with colourful hair, thick glasses, and a rainbow keffiyeh – smiles gently at the camera.

HERE ARE SOME OF THE COOL THINGS I’VE BEEN UP TO IN 2024.

In 2024 I celebrated four years of Fox Therapy running solely online. I love being able to see LGBTQ+ clients from all over the UK (and sometimes further afield!) and knowing that they can see me from wherever is most comfortable for them. I’ve spent some time making sure my home office is a comfy space for everyone, too, with new artwork and soft furnishings that I hope create a warm background for my clients.

Kathryn takes a selfie using their phone and their tablet. The tablet is propped up on some of their go-to books about mental health, and there are various pieces of art, stim toys, and self-care tools semi-visible in the background. Kathryn is smiling widely.

My therapeutic training this year has focused on minoritised people and how our experiences of oppression can show up in therapy and in our daily lives. I was lucky enough to complete trainings and supervisions by luminaries like Sabah Choudry and Dr. Jennifer Mulan on topics such as decolonising therapy practices, experiences of women with ADHD, creating neuroaffirmative therapy practices, working with trans clients of colour, and ERP for clients with OCD and anxiety.

I also read a number of excellent therapy books about disability, community care, self-care, neurodivergence, and body liberation, my favourite of which was Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarashina.

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
The cover of the book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarashina.

As well as reading some great books this year, I also finished writing my second non-fiction book as my alter-ego Katy Lees in 2024. It’s called Queer Minds: LGBTQ+ Therapists and Advocates on Mental Health, Neurodivergence and the Things That Help and I’m excited for it to come out later in 2025.

Fox Therapy has also been proud to support organisations such as Medical Aid for Palestinians, Micro Rainbow, and Stonewall Housing. Working towards an end to oppression, inequality, and colonialism inside and outside the therapy room is an important part of my therapy work and I’m proud to continue that work however I can.

A screenshot from the Stonewall Housing website.

And, of course, Fox Therapy’s perennial Employee of the Year has won this prestigious award again, for showing resilience and a brave joy in the face of adversity (mainly having to put up with her younger feline coworkers, Dax and Wrex).

Minx, a nine-year-old tabby cat, is loafing on a bed and appears vigilant, perhaps keeping her eyes peeled for new therapy books.

Here’s hoping for a smooth, joyful, and strengthening 2025 ahead for everyone!

Kathryn is smiling at the camera.