Maverique Therapeutic Services

01/06/2026

Wanting to learn more about PDA (Pervasive drive for Autonomy, also known as pathological demand avoidance)?? HERE IS YOUR CHANCE!!

Laura Hellfeld Neurodivergent Nurse Consulting is an absolutely incredible educator and speaker. You will NOT want to miss an opportunity to learn from Laura!!!

Currently working with coffee in hand on my speaker notes for this upcoming webinar co-delivered with Helen Edgar.

I mean, I might be biased but I believe that understanding PANS/PANDAS conditions is necessary for any professional who supports neurodivergent people. And parents and carers also deserve this knowledge.

In my work, I most often see/hear signs that PANS/PANDAS should be explored in the areas of food and eating, toileting and sleep.

Link to sign up to this webinar and other PANS/PANDAS resources on my substack will be in comments.

01/04/2026

Today, Maverique Therapeutic Services turns 4!

This practice was built to reduce harm caused by pathologizing, compliance-based, and one-size-fits-all mental health care.

We exist to honor bodies, brains, identities, and lived experience as they are; not as systems expect them to be.

Four years in, our commitment is steady...ethical, neuro-affirming, s*x positive, gender-affirming, anti-oppressive,anti-ableist care rooted in liberation, consent, collaboration, and respect.

We are deeply grateful for our community and our Board of Directors, whose leadership and stewardship help make this work possible!

Happy Birthday, Maverique!

01/01/2026

Moving gently into 2026:

🌈 Protect one thing that helps you feel regulated

🌈 Practice your skills to be prepared for hard days

🌈 Connect with your senses daily

🌈 Adjust your environment to fit YOU

🌈 Keep expectations realistic

🌈 Do fun things

This year, focus on care, not performance.
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01/01/2026

Therapists, your work matters even when it doesn’t feel like it.

Drop a 🧡 if you’ve been showing up this year, even in the small ways that count most.

12/31/2025

A quick New Year's Eve reminder:

🎇 Safety over expectations

🎇 Consent over pressure

🎇 Rest over proving anything

However tonight looks for you; take care of yourself and each other.

Happy New Year's Eve from all of us at Maverique Therapeutic Services!
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12/31/2025

Survival is not the absence of success.

Survival is success in a world designed to grind people down.

And this is especially true in the mental health field.

Therapists are being sold hustle culture wrapped in “helping” language. Scale bigger, see more clients, monetize everything, build the brand, dominate the market. Big money practices take up space, resources, and visibility, then call it leadership. Individual therapists are constantly striving for the next thing; the next book, the next training, the next marketing plan.

Productivity is not a neutral value. It’s an ableist standard that rewards people with access, capacity, stability, and safety; while shaming everyone else for not “keeping up.” It creates less space for therapists with less access, less capacity, less stability, and less safety.

There is room for all therapists and all kinds of practices. But not while productivity, expansion, and profit are treated as moral superiority. Not while therapists are branding themselves through individualistic lenses versus collective community supporting one another. Not while disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent, and marginalized clinicians are pushed out because they don’t…or can’t perform grind culture.

Making it through 2025, still practicing with integrity, still choosing care over extraction, still here?
That’s not falling behind.
That’s resistance.
That’s success.
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12/29/2025

🎉 Big congratulations to Sarah of Comradely Therapy! 🎉

Sarah has completed all requirements for becoming an EMDR Certified Therapist; leveling up her skills and deepening her EMDR expertise! We are so lucky Sarah chose Maverique Therapeutic Services for her EMDR consultation services!

Sarah shared:
“My time in Dr. Lanza’s consultation space was invaluable. They are a terrific clinician and human being. Learning about EMDR applications for q***r, neurodivergent, and disabled communities will stay with me for the duration of my career. It was truly an honor to work with this consultation group.”

When asked about Sarah’s thoughts about EMDR, she shared:
“I love EMDR therapy. Creating space where clients can attune their bodies with their minds is such a gift. EMDR has offered me vast resources in my work with religious trauma and politicized therapy.”

At Comradely Therapy, Sarah provides EMDR-informed care along with therapy for activists and community organizers, internalized capitalism therapy, and religious trauma support. Sarah also offers professional services like coaching. Sarah is licensed in Pennsylvania and Florida, offering clients space for healing, empowerment, and transformation.

Learn more about Sarah’s work at https://www.teletherapywithsarah.com/

We are so ecstatic for this next step in Sarah’s career and are so honored to have been part of her EMDR consultation journey! It is a true privilege to collaborate with Sarah in our shared values of not just working to heal communities therapeutically, but to dismantle harmful systems and create a more equitable world.
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12/26/2025

🕯️ Happy Kwanzaa 🕯️

Kwanzaa is a weeklong celebration honoring African and African American culture, community, and collective responsibility. Rooted in Nguzo Saba, the Seven Principles, Kwanzaa centers values like unity, self-determination, collective work, and purpose.

The matters for mental health. Individualism, grind culture, and systemic racism fracture a sense of community and exhaust nervous systems. Kwanzaa offers a different framework: Healing through connection, shared responsibility, cultural pride, and remembering that wellness is not just personal; it's collective.

It has been a long-time coming to dismantle this concept of individualism in our country. Let Kwanzaa be a part of changing this narrative and moving into a collective community to create a more equitable country.

May this week bring grounding, reflection, and moments of care.

Harambee.

12/25/2025

🎄Merry Christmas 🎄

For some, Christmas is connection, tradition, and warmth.

For others, it’s complicated—loaded with grief, family rupture, religious trauma, financial stress, or expectations that don’t fit.

All of that is real.

Because Christmas is culturally dominant, it often gets treated as default rather than a religious holiday. That erases people who don’t celebrate and pressures many to participate anyway. Naming that matters.

From a mental health lens, this season can intensify stress, masking, people-pleasing, and nervous system overload; especially for disabled, neurodivergent, q***r, and chronically ill folx. You are not broken if this time of year is hard. You are responding to real conditions.

In our therapy spaces, we hold Christmas without romanticizing it. You don’t have to be grateful. You don’t have to be joyful. You don’t have to perform closeness or cheer to be okay.

If you celebrate, we hope your day includes moments of warmth and ease.�If you don’t, we hope your boundaries are respected and your needs honored.

Your mental health matters; today and every day
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12/21/2025

Tomorrow!!! December 22nd!

This past Thursday, the Trump Administration announced its intent to further restrict access to gender-affirming healthcare for trans youth and young adults under 19. For many families, this news may feel scary, overwhelming, or deeply personal.

You are not alone.

We invite you to join Eastern PA Trans Equity Project for a live, supportive webinar focused on understanding what’s being proposed and how we can care for and protect our community through it.

During the webinar, you’ll hear:
• Clear, accessible information about how the proposed rules could impact access to trans-affirming healthcare
• Ways to take action that are grounded, effective, and community-centered
• How Eastern PA Trans Equity Project supports parents and caregivers of transgender youth across Eastern and Central Pennsylvania

This space is for parents, caregivers, trans youth, allies, and anyone feeling unsettled or unsure about what comes next.

The webinar will not be recorded, so attending live is important.

Registration is required:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dQFFKAumSWGSOUHIRt-SaA

Showing up — to learn, to connect, to support one another — matters. We hope you’ll join us and share this with anyone who might need it right now.

12/21/2025

❄️ Happy Yule 🕯️

It’s the Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year. Which means if you’re tired, overwhelmed, or operating on low battery… congratulations, you’re right on schedule.

Yule reminds us that rest is sacred, darkness isn’t a failure, and light doesn’t need to rush to be real. Growth can be slow. Healing can be quiet.
Candles > productivity culture.

Rooted in Pagan and Earth-based traditions, Yule honors cycles, ritual, and connection to the natural world; traditions that deserve respect, not erasure or aesthetic-only appreciation.

From a mental health perspective? This is nervous system gold. Ritual. Stillness. Warmth. Permission to pause. Also: mixed feelings are allowed. Grief, joy, burnout, relief, none of them disqualify you from the season.

We affirm Pagan clients and community members. Your spirituality is real. Your traditions matter. And you deserve care that doesn’t pathologize what grounds you.

Light a candle.
Drink something warm.
Do less.

Blessed Yule 🪵
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