Wolfpack Counseling Hub

In our remote peer counseling and healing services, we seek to serve community members in the united states and all over the world, without health insurance and without access to care providers who sufficiently meet our needs. Many providers are not similarly enough marginalized to us, not prison/police/psychiatry abolitionist, not accountable to harm in a caregiver-recipient dynamic, nor skilled enough for low-level crises. We are still open to all peer clients, regardless of access to health insurance, income, and background.

As a robust village network of peer counselors, peer clients, culture bearers, accomplices, and affiliates who share wisdom and resources amongst each other, our goals are to:

1. Connect with and build skills alongside survivors of all kinds to support them and their communities in healing and self-determination.
2. Center and frame underclass* survival, livelihood, and wisdom as imperative to the healing of humans and the ecosystems of Earth.
3. Create a new autonomous disability tradition, culture, and ecosystem protected from the non-profit and academic industries.

*Underclass is a term that refers to people formerly/currently/who will likely be coerced into the criminal-legal system through the school-to-prison pipeline, underground economies, lack of documentation with the nation-state, etc. In one expanded definition, we also include certain non-criminalized disabled persons who have experienced severe social isolation, who lack several types of access generally for a majority of their lives, and who diverge from able-bodiedness and able-mindedness the most—from this point on, also known as the access underclass.

We aim to grow a village with you, not diagnose you. As an autonomous hub, we serve peer clients in need in ways that move toward accessibility, global Black & Indigenous liberation, survivor-prioritized safety & accountability, and moving at the speed of trust & consent. Please note that although we do not have institutional accreditation for therapy and counseling, we intentionally follow underclass wisdom and experience.

You are an active agent in your own healing journey, and we are here to support you long-term. If for any reason you wish to stop receiving our services, we can support you in finding other resources.

Inspired by Freedom Community Clinic's holistic approach, Black/New Afrikan lumpenproletariat wisdom, Native/Indigenous lifeways, and disability justice, we view healing as a complex process involving an increase in accessibility, which can be described in terms of 8 Pillars.

Using the framework below, we can better analyze our current material conditions with understandings of how race, class, gender, and other systems combine to impact each of us uniquely—and therefore, the path to our liberation. (See N.Z. Suekama's Nexus Hypothesis.)

We offer four types of ongoing services to provide comprehensive support, safety, and learning.* You are encouraged to participate in more than one type of service. Each peer counselor has their own individual rates that are generally in the range below, and we will work with you to figure out something feasible for your financial situation. Please keep in mind that our peer counselors come from the underclasses, and our wisdom and care are worth investing in.

We want to exist in a reciprocal relationship with you, and you can pay/tip what you can. Or, you can even offer a gift or service in exchange. Peer clients outside of the united states can provide payment via PayPal if possible, at any amount that feels right for you.

*Unfortunately, we do not offer high-level crisis response, as we mainly focus on preventative care.

Private Counseling

Similar to a typical psychotherapy session, but with a peer counselor following your lead on your healing journey. We will only offer suggestions after you consent to it. There are options to meet however often and however long, depending on availability.

Suggested Donation: $5 to 50 USD per hour, or gift/service exchange.

*First hour of private sessions free of charge for all new clients to ensure compatibility.

Other Services

Because private counseling is not always effective alone, we provide other assistance with the following:

1. Divination card readings
2. Conflict transformation & mediation
3. Forming care teams
4. Resource navigation with state services
5. Finding employment
6. Referrals to other healing practitioners

Suggested Donation: $5 to 50 USD per hour, or gift/service exchange.

Support Groups

Participate in a 1-month support group to build relationship skills alongside others and to collectively identify how oppression shows up in our lives. Heal with each other through relationship building, storytelling, and conversations. It can be great way to become more heart-centered. Depending on need, specific support groups can be offered regularly throughout the year.

Possible Offerings: Addiction from a Disability-Centered Lens, Prayer Circle.

Political Education

Participate in a 1-month political education group to co-create a learning environment that prioritizes accessibility and care alongside others. Learn from root-grasping sources of political tradition via many types of formats, (including poetry, art, audio files, stories.) It can be a great way to deepen material analysis of our conditions.

Possible Offerings: Applications of Disability Justice, Autonomous Organizing Strategies.