My Focus

My work on Borderline Personality Disorder is rooted in solidarity with survivors who have been punished, dismissed, and misread inside psychiatry. The label is still used to cast predominantly women, trauma survivors, and neurodivergent people as “manipulative” — a move that erases context and legitimises neglect. Working alongside survivor activists, I helped mobilise a hundreds-strong international protest to the World Health Organization, pressuring institutions like NHS England and the Royal College of Psychiatrists to confront the harm this diagnosis causes.
This activism is about dismantling a diagnostic tool that polices survivors rather than supporting them.

My welfare work sits firmly within the disability justice movement, highlighting how the Department for Work and Pensions produces anguish, poverty, and suicide under the guise of “support.” Disabled people and those with mental health problems are subjected to psychocompulsion, sanctions, and an impossible narrative of “recovery” designed to exclude us from help and blame us for not thriving. I work alongside claimants and survivor-led groups to expose these harms, amplify lived experience, and push for rights-based support rather than coercive policy.
This is collective resistance against state violence, not individual advocacy.

My campaigning for long-term therapy directly confronts the deserving/undeserving victim logic baked into UK mental health provision. While the NHS increasingly funnels people into short, manualised programmes, those living with complex trauma (including CPTSD) are squeezed into models that prioritise “management” over understanding. Working alongside survivors, I argue for therapy that meets people where they are — spacious, relational, depth-oriented work, not theory-led correction of the individual. The current two-tier system, where the wealthiest get exploration and the rest get compliance, is a political choice, not an inevitability.
Therapeutic depth is a matter of justice, not luxury.