This is a list of therapists and health practitioners in Victoria, Australia, who have expertise, training, and/or lived experience in various marginalised social groups. This includes LGBTQIA+, neurodiversity, sex work, kink and BDSM, non-monogamy, immigrant and/or asylum seeker, disability, specific ethnicity and/or religion, and other elements of identity or practice. This does not constitute ‘specialist’ knowledge or endorsement, as defined by ACCC or AHPRA.

Signing up to this list is VOLUNTARY, and on the understanding that practitioners take full responsibility for the accuracy of the information they add.

*NOTE: I have a minimum requirement for all practitioners on the list that they have adequate indemnity insurance appropriate to their area of practice, as well as membership of a professional association with a code of ethics and formal complaints/investigation structure. Please see the Complaints page for examples of these. This is to help ensure a minimum standard of care for clients, rather than to exclude practitioners with particular qualifications or backgrounds. If you’re not sure if you/your practitioner meet these requirements, when joining please describe your qualifications and association memberships to see if you’re appropriate for this particular list right now.

I have started this list and website as a voluntary service that I'll administer in my limited spare time. It is a no frills approach, coming predominantly from community need, and a lack of addressing this need from larger organised therapist/medical groups. All questions in the form are optional beyond the basics, though the more information practitioners fill, the better clients may be able to search for them.

I am not personally recommending the practitioners on this list, nor referring you to any one of them specifically.

I do not receive any financial benefit from administrating this list.

The Victorian Inclusive Practitioners List

The list is best used by first filtering the list by Geographical Area or Gender, then with that shortlist, going to the Individual Practitioner Sheet and searching through each practitioner. Use Microsoft Excel and Enable Macros if prompted (this allows the sorting function to work).

You can also have a look at a list of practitioner websites here.

 

Triple Bi Pass Interview with Juniper Muller, discussing the Victorian Inclusive Practitioners List. Broadcast 20/07/2021. Skip to “25:22” to hear about the list specifically, following the interview about Juniper’s individual work.

Tigist Kebede (@thetenatherapist) speaks on the podcast “The Subtlety of It” about many things, including seeking a therapist with similar lived experience, and also being a therapist working within your own communities. You can find her at https://polapsychology.com/

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