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Queer Minds: LGBTQ+ Therapists and Advocates on Mental Health, Neurodivergence, and the Things That Help
It's time to give queer minds the attention they deserve.
As a non-binary and queer psychotherapist, Katy Lees knows how crucial it is to feel seen and supported as a queer person with mental health challenges. Drawing on their own experiences and featuring interviews with other queer mental health advocates and experts, this book offers insight on everything from the psychiatric system, navigating eating disorders as a queer person, autistic queer liberation, radical community care, as well as dreaming, healing, and navigating hardship.
Filled with joy and hope, but not shying away from the challenges, this book brings the lived experiences of queer people into focus and gives practical advice on finding comfort and connection. It features interviews with Sage Stephanou, Emily Waldron, Gem Kennedy, Jess Sprengle, LJ Potter, Lucy Fox, Stef Sanjati and more.
As a non-binary and queer psychotherapist, Katy Lees knows how crucial it is to feel seen and supported as a queer person with mental health challenges. Drawing on their own experiences and featuring interviews with other queer mental health advocates and experts, this book offers insight on everything from the psychiatric system, navigating eating disorders as a queer person, autistic queer liberation, radical community care, as well as dreaming, healing, and navigating hardship.
Filled with joy and hope, but not shying away from the challenges, this book brings the lived experiences of queer people into focus and gives practical advice on finding comfort and connection. It features interviews with Sage Stephanou, Emily Waldron, Gem Kennedy, Jess Sprengle, LJ Potter, Lucy Fox, Stef Sanjati and more.
251 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 21, 2025
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December 25, 2025
Katy Lees' previous book is a self help book that I still open from time to time. So I was very curious to see where this second book of theirs would take me. It ended up being a lovely celebration of queer people and their minds and was just such a lovely read.
The first chapters of this book felt quite intense to me. There was a lot of deep talk with a lot of queer trauma. It was really interesting to see all these different people talk about the issues they experienced as a queer person but it made it not a light read. There is a lot of harm done to queer people and this book showed that raw and true. But at the same time all the people interviewed were living on all the same and in this resilience a lot of hope was to be found. So even though some interviews were really about dark topics, there was always something light to be found in them as well.
This book interviews a lot of therapists and as a person who had continuous therapy since age 6, seeing this other side of the conversation was really interesting. It definitely reminded me again that all the therapists I talked to are also just people. I had never thought much deeper about how the therapy field is not a place where marginalized people easily can come into, but this book really showed me that reality. It also just made me incredibly grateful for my current queer therapist that has helping me immensely while holding my own identities with care. In that same way it also showed me explanations why I never felt safe with most of my therapists as that was never the case.
The chapter that stayed with me the most was the chapter with Lucy. In that interview I read the story of a incredible woman who deserved the world. It was a story that touched me deeply, and even after finishing the book some time ago it still stays really close to me. I hope that by recommending this book and thus her story I can help keeping her memory alive.
I received an eARC and this was my honest review.
The first chapters of this book felt quite intense to me. There was a lot of deep talk with a lot of queer trauma. It was really interesting to see all these different people talk about the issues they experienced as a queer person but it made it not a light read. There is a lot of harm done to queer people and this book showed that raw and true. But at the same time all the people interviewed were living on all the same and in this resilience a lot of hope was to be found. So even though some interviews were really about dark topics, there was always something light to be found in them as well.
This book interviews a lot of therapists and as a person who had continuous therapy since age 6, seeing this other side of the conversation was really interesting. It definitely reminded me again that all the therapists I talked to are also just people. I had never thought much deeper about how the therapy field is not a place where marginalized people easily can come into, but this book really showed me that reality. It also just made me incredibly grateful for my current queer therapist that has helping me immensely while holding my own identities with care. In that same way it also showed me explanations why I never felt safe with most of my therapists as that was never the case.
The chapter that stayed with me the most was the chapter with Lucy. In that interview I read the story of a incredible woman who deserved the world. It was a story that touched me deeply, and even after finishing the book some time ago it still stays really close to me. I hope that by recommending this book and thus her story I can help keeping her memory alive.
I received an eARC and this was my honest review.
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