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Fox Therapy Enters 2024!

by IAmKatyLees, posted in Blogs, Updates

2023 is behind us, and 2024 is ahead!

It’s become my tradition to look back on the previous year and everything that’s happened for Fox Therapy – so, here’s what’s been happening for me in 2023.

Kathryn – a non-binary person with glasses and short purple hair – is smiling gently at the camera.

HERE ARE SOME OF THE COOL THINGS I’VE BEEN UP TO IN 2023.

This year I continued to see clients online from my home office. This has meant that people around the U.K. can see me accessibly from their own homes, or wherever else they feel most comfortable. It still feels so great to see lots of different kinds of people across the country, and to be prioritising LGBTQ+ experiences no matter where my clients live.

A fabric heart is secured to a wooden fence. It’s embroidered with the words ‘Diversity is one thing we all have in common. Let’s celebrate it!’

I continued to do lots of therapeutic training in 2023, casting my net wide to include training on habitual worry, community care for those with OCD, healing in the context of systemic racism, diagnosis and misdiagnosis of personality disorders in autistic people, existential change, and different care pathways for trans people. I’ve felt very lucky to be able to access so much quality training this year with luminaries such as Ernesto Spinelli and the people at Trans Actual.

A leaflet from one of the trainings attending in 2024.

I was honoured to be invited to 2023’s Ouseburn Family Pride, where I spoke about transgender teens and the mental health support they might need. It was so lovely to be out in the community helping young trans people (and to sit in this giant chair)!

Kathryn is sat on a large wooden chair at Seven Stories during Ouseburn Family Pride.

Fox Therapy has also been proud to continue to support organisations such as Medical Aid for Palestinians, Black Minds Matter U.K., and Books Beyond Bars. An important part of being a therapist, for me, is to work towards the end of inequality, oppression, and colonialism with my clients and in our global community.

The Black Minds Matter U.K. charity mission statement.

Fox Therapy’s eldest resident cat, Minx, has once again won our Employee of the Year award for modelling firm boundaries and adaptability under pressure, values that I carry with me in my work as a therapist.

Minx, an 8-year-old tabby, receives her reward for winning Employee of the Year (lots of gentle head pets).

In more personal news, I got married to my now-wife in September 2023. It was a wonderful day full of queer magic! It also means that my last name has officially changed from Lees to my chosen last name, Fox (which is how Fox Therapy got its name).

Kathryn stands on a cliff by the sea, smiling at their wife. They’re wearing a light blue wedding dress.

It’s been an interesting year at Fox Therapy, and I’m excited to see what 2024 brings us all. Here’s hoping for a peaceful, exciting, steady year ahead!

Wrex and Dax, the other two of Fox Therapy’s resident cats, snuggle in a festive puddle.