Ground Well Counseling is a practice devoted to facilitating every person’s healing and agency. Though most sessions are focused at an individual level, social justice, healing and environmental wellbeing are essential components of the practice.
Resources
Boring disclaimer: The following resources are for informational and educational purposes only. Reading or otherwise engaging with them does not constitute a therapeutic relationship with Ground Well Counseling Services, PLLC or Ailish Kress, LCPC-C. I may not agree with or endorse every point made by every resource I link to; please do not take these links as agreement or endorsement. I have found many of these resources helpful in my education, determining my own values, and learning about our world; please take what resonates for you and leave what does not.
Social Justice
What is social justice? What is the difference between equity and equality? Do you know what your positionality is? How can you support friends and loved ones of a whole variety of backgrounds? Why should you care about liberation and anti-oppression, what is decolonization, and how do we as individuals navigate varying levels of society without harming others…or mitigating the harm we have done?
Environment and Sustainability
Everything is connected.
Neurodiversity and Neurodivergence
What is neurodiversity, and what does it mean to be neurodivergent or neurotypical? What different kinds of neurodivergence are there?
Trauma
Trauma is somewhat of a buzzword these days, but what is it really? Most people think of severe, shocking individual events as “real” trauma, however, trauma arises from many individual, familial, social, institutional, and collective experiences. To find out more about PTSD, complex trauma, developmental trauma, (inter)generational trauma, collective trauma, and minority stress and trauma, read on…