Advocacy Is Not Separate From Therapy

There’s a common misconception that therapy happens in a vacuum.

A quiet room.

Two chairs.

A conversation removed from the outside world.

But anyone who has lived inside real systems—healthcare, education, child welfare, immigration, poverty, disability, trauma—knows this isn’t how healing actually works.

People do not arrive in therapy untouched by the world.

They arrive shaped by it.

And this is where social work matters.

Written by Galina Gouliquer, MSW, RSW - Registered Social Worker at Mind and Ocean