Sage Counseling LLC

04/02/2026

"The premise of the case the Court ruled on was one of free speech instead of professional conduct. However, psychotherapy is a regulated medical treatment, not a form of unregulated conversation. Despite this, the ruling centered on the viewpoint of the complainant and struck down the Colorado law as a restriction on expression. ACA maintains that conversion therapy bans regulate professional conduct, not speech. Such laws ensure that counseling practices are evidence-based, ethical and aligned with accepted standards of care."

This is my professional organization's position, and mine personally, on the recent Supreme Court ruling about conversion therapy.

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy related to a lawsuit brought by counselor Kaley Chiles (Chiles v. Salazar). This ruling is a devastating blow to LGBTQ+ rights and to professionally trained counselors nationwide.

03/31/2026

Celebrating the lives and courage of all the trans and nonbinary people I know.

Today is Transgender Day of Visibility — a celebration of transgender people around the globe and the courage it takes to live openly and authentically, while also raising awareness around the discrimination trans people still face.

One way you can show support for those who are transgender is by accurately using a person’s pronouns. Pronouns — such as he, she and they — are deeply personal and are integral to how people express themselves.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3MidHbd

03/23/2026

Right!

Today is the first day of spring, and we are so thrilled 💚🌱 Maybe it's time to follow Mary Oliver's advice, to break out and act like the wild, springy things we once were.

03/20/2026

Yes. Not knowing is a potent space.

03/19/2026

Learn how taking short breaks throughout the day can improve focus, boost mood, and support overall well-being.

03/19/2026

Here's an invitation from my friend and colleague Sam Russo:

Call for Young Creators: Design the Logo for Stranizze d’Amuri

We invite trans, gender-diverse and q***r young people to create the logo for a new project rooted in Sicily.

In Sicilian, Stranizze d’Amuri means “the strange things of love”—a love that is free, unexpected, and beyond boundaries, embracing all bodies, creatures, and ways of being on Earth.

This project sits at the meeting point of q***r experience, impermanence, and regenerative kinship. It is grounded in a simple belief:

Our body, like the body of the Earth, is plural, fluid, and ever becoming.

The call comes from a personal place: in 2019, I (Sam) set up a counselling service for LGBTQIA+ young people. Through the stories I heard, I began questioning my own gender. Recognising that as a gift, today we are inviting young q***r creators to shape the logo of Stranizze d’Amuri.

A few prompts for the logo:
Q***r and trans ecology
Plurality and many ways of being
Earth body, q***r body
Creativity, imagination, transformation
Love beyond boxes

Your design can be a drawing, digital work, collage, or mixed media—symbolic, abstract, or narrative. Bold, soft, strange, playful—however you imagine it!

No experience needed—just let your imagination play!

Why take part?
Stranizze d’Amuri is a space in the making—where community, creativity, and care for the Earth meet.

Your work could:
represent the regeneration of an abandoned ancient olive grove in Sicily
contribute to a space rooted in q***r values and belonging
help shape the identity of a living, evolving community

A symbolic offering:
As a gesture of gratitude, we would like to offer a bottle of olive oil from Sicily, produced by hand and harvested with q***r care. The design you create will celebrate this special place and may also be used to decorate the bottles. While we are mindful of the impact of sending a bottle across the globe as thanks, we welcome applications worldwide and trust that, through a little magic, we will find a way to get the olive oil to you!

How to submit
Send your work by 30 June 2026 to:
stranizzedamuri@protonmail.com

Include:
your design (use WeTransfer if over 5MB)
your name (as you’d like it credited)
a few words about your idea (optional)

We can’t wait to see what you create—share with us what the strange things of love look like to you!

The Project
We are Gareth and Sam. Gareth (he/him), a q***r psychoanalytic psychotherapist and sexologist working with LGBTQIA+ communities on identity, shame, and transformation. Sam (they/them), a non-binary dramatherapist and clinical supervisor exploring creativity, embodiment, and the “in-between” where identity, imagination, and transformation meet.

After years in London, the pandemic and the sudden sale of the house we rented led us from “the centre” to “the margins”: a piece of land in Sicily. Among around 100 ancient olive trees, we are restoring and protecting the land while creating space for q***r, ecological, and creative practices. This place is not just land—it is a relationship. A call to care.

Together, we are creating a space where care for the self and care for the Earth are inseparable.

03/12/2026

Each day we show up in our own unique, beautiful way.
Never judge how far you’re suppose to travel, just wake up, sit in quiet, connect to your power within, and begin walking.

Remember some days you may walk far, other times you go forward then back a few steps, and often baby steps are enough. 👣

03/12/2026

Nothing profoundly new, but some good reminders.

Can't seem to match the energy of a good friend? You might be on opposite ends of the personality spectrum — and that's OK. Here's how to foster deep connections despite your differences.

03/08/2026

It’s International Women’s Day!

03/02/2026

“The Peace of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
Wendell Berry - The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry.

Seung-Hwan Chung

02/28/2026

Morning Blessing

May this morning greet you softly,
as light spills across your window.
May your first breath be full and kind.
May hope today rise the way the sun rises:
calmly and faithfully.
May you notice one small beauty
and let it anchor you.
May this world meet you
with the same tenderness
you so often offer others.
Today is not asking you to be perfect.
It is inviting you to be present.
And that is already a gift.
May your night be gentle.
May your morning be luminous.

✍️ Rivers in the Ocean

02/04/2026

It's Black History Month. To take up today's challenge (more fully explained below), I'll share something I learned today. This organization, ASALH, and its founder Dr. Carter G. Woodson, introduced Black History Month.

Letter from the ASALH President's Desk