The name Guerrilla Counseling was born out of my frustration with the kind of mental health support I was finding for myself and friends when there was need; the support I found was either stale, inaccessible, or disingenuous. The term “Guerrilla” is meant to bring up the notion that these services don’t need to cost an arm and a leg, that the solutions can be something creatively curated right in our own backyard so to speak. Services can be provided in your standard remote telehealth format, or in-person in a coffee shop, or on a walk in the park (post conversations about privacy of course). It’s less important that we do things that are conventional and more so work out what actually works for where you’re trying to go.

Life doesn’t always provide us the perfect means for taking care of ourselves or others and sometimes leaves us needing to piece our self care together as best we can. When challenged with these kind of obstacles I often find comfort in the fable of the Starfish Story by Loren Eiseley. We can’t perfect the world, or our own world, in a day, but today we can do this much and make that much a difference.