Community Is How We Heal

Why This Project Matters

Some days, the world feels unbearably heavy.

I scroll through headlines and see one crisis after another — genocide, starvation, governments that seem to forget their humanity — and I feel helpless. It’s hard to make sense of how so many can look away, how comfort and privilege can become blindfolds that keep people from seeing what others are living through.

And yet, I keep asking myself what I can actually do. What’s within reach?

The Beginning

If I’m being honest, this project didn’t start from some grand mission. It started from a place of pain — from not wanting my voice to be erased.

I wanted to tell my story. I wanted what happened to me in therapy to matter.

And as time went on, that want grew into something bigger. It became about wanting everyone to have a space where their voice could be heard — where no one would be silenced or made to feel invisible for speaking truth.

What It’s Really About

At its heart, Lafayette Therapist Reviews is about honesty, accountability, and care.

It’s about creating a community-driven space where people can share their experiences — good and bad — with the clinicians they’ve worked with.

I don’t just want a place to name harm. I want a place to celebrate the ones doing it right — the therapists who make people feel seen, safe, and human again.

I want people to be able to read firsthand accounts of what someone left with after working with a therapist, and to make choices grounded in community words and lived experiences — not just glossy Psychology Today profiles or professional bios that tell you nothing real.

I want people to make mindful choices, not blind leaps into the void, hoping for someone good.

Accountability as Care

I’ve thought a lot about accountability — especially how it looks in a world that often refuses to face itself.

I wish self-accountability were always enough. I really do.

But when it isn’t, community can step in. Not to destroy, but to raise the bar.

Community accountability says: We care enough to notice. We care enough to ask for better.

It’s not about canceling anyone — it’s about refusing to look away when harm happens, and also refusing to overlook the good when it’s there. Through honesty, accountability, and care, community can build safety in ways institutions never have.

Why It Still Matters

This project is my way of taking one small step toward change.

It’s my way of saying I can’t fix the world, but I can help build something rooted in truth right here — in my own community, alongside others who believe we deserve better care.

And maybe that’s where real change begins — not in the noise of the world, but in the quiet courage of people willing to keep showing up for one another.

And maybe one day, we as a community can help change things far beyond local healing.