Creating spaces for quirky queers and cultural renegades to learn together. We’re passionate about helping people to build the skills they need to live their best lives.
Creating spaces for quirky queers and cultural renegades to learn together. We’re passionate about helping people to build the skills they need to live their best lives.
OUR STORY
What makes learning with us different?
We walk the walk.
We use the skills and tools we teach in our own lives & only teach them if we think they work. That doesn’t mean every skill or tool works for every one of us, nor that we think they will work for every one of you. It does mean we think you’ll find MOST of them useful and that you’re the best person to decide what works for you.
We belong to the communities we serve.
We center quirky queers and cultural renegades in all the work that we do.
We learn collaboratively.
We learn in community – meaning that we learn from each other, from you and from working through the skills and tools we teach with each other.
MEET THE TEAM
Dr. Sophia Graham (she/her)
Dr Sophia Graham is an academic turned therapist who started learning and then teaching DBT skills in 2016. She has facilitated a group for queer disabled folks that has been running almost all of that time & is immensely grateful to that group for helping her to learn the skills more deeply and shift her approach to many of them. She loves that DBT recognises the negative impact of systemic oppression and oppressive societal norms on our mental health and experience of life. It encourages us to recognise that our distress is caused, but that doesn’t mean we are helpless.
Self-consent is her passion project – and the work she finds most personally challenging, too. A wise friend once told her, “Your mess is your message”, and she is living proof of concept (thanks, Meg-John Barker).
Sophia is a settled, white, queer, disabled, consensually non-monogamous survivor presently living on unceded Massachusett land & going through an immigration process. She is a professional member of The Association of Somatic and Integrative Sexologists (ASIS) and complies with their ethical code. She enjoys regular professional development, particularly around DBT skills, gender and sexual diversity, consensual non-monogamy, out-of-control sexual behaviour, consent, sex work and neurodiversity.
Sophia offers coaching and support to quirky queers and cultural renegades. Her usual rate is $200 for a 50-minute session. She offers limited sliding-scale sessions to folks who have taken her courses. If you would like to work with her send her a message.
Ann Campbell (She/they)
Ann Campbell (she / they) is a certified coach and trauma specialist. She came to coaching after working since 2005 in law and human rights, where she specialised in litigation and advocacy with disabled people and people harmed by the mental health industry. They are passionate about offering an alternative to harmful, neuro-normative, pathologising approaches to ‘treating’ emotional distress.
Trauma is what happens when we live in oppressive, violent structures (family, government, workplaces, communities etc.) that overtax our nervous systems. It forces us towards survival mechanisms that shut down our feelings in numbing depression, anxiety, self-harm, meltdowns, or burnout. Ann offers one-to-one coaching for individuals struggling with these and other forms of emotional distress.
They also offer management coaching and capacity building for organisations, professionals and interested folk who are trying to change our oppressive, discriminatory systems. She offers training on a variety of topics, including trauma sensitive workplaces, trauma and justice processes, and disability rights.
You can find more information on Ann, their qualifications and offerings on their website.
Cat McGrath (they/them)
Cat McGrath is a trainee Education Psychologist with many years of experience working with children and families. They have taught emotional resilience skills drawn from mindfulness, CBT and DBT one to one, in schools, and to groups of adults. They live in a queer collective in a gorgeous Irish town. They are a white, chronically ill, agender, non-monogamous, queer that just loves to call out the patriachy.
BOB (he/him)
Bob (he/him) is passionate about making consent education accessible, practical, and empowering. He had a long career as a youth and community worker since beginning in the 1990s, focusing on sexual health and education. However, he often felt that traditional relationships and sex education didn’t equip young people with the skills to navigate agency and autonomy—especially against cultural norms that often reinforce non-consensual pressures for all involved.
As a brown, queer, trans, neurodivergent, disabled person, socialised as female, his work has focused on exploring how patterns of oppression and trauma intersect with consent practices. Through this lens, he has come to understand how power, privilege, and systemic structures shape our interactions—and how we can make choices that foster greater dignity, respect, and personal agency.
He offers 1:1 Coaching for people 18 yrs+ (online), charging £60 per hour. You can find out more about Bob on his website.