BEYOND HAUNT: Peer support with Porch Light
With Porch Light Peer Support, Gray takes a one-on-one approach to support others in imagining possibilities for themselves beyond the here and now. To learn more about Gray or to book a session, start with a no-cost introduction.
Creating change is a long game. Each of us can benefit personally and collectively from identifying our power and our scope of care—what we owe one another as people and how we can rise to the challenges late-stage capitalism presents.
As discussed in Toi Marie Smith's Uprooting Capitalism series, care is a spade we may use to help dig our way out of late-stage capitalism. Peer support is one such form of care. It differs from psychotherapy or psychiatry in several ways; I appreciate most that peer support begins on equal footing, without hierarchy.
Peer support supplements other forms of therapeutic care.
Peer support is not and should not be considered professional mental health care, psychotherapy, psychiatry, or any other form of therapy or medical care. Peer support is a supplemental coaching tool that may support your goals as you navigate professionally-provided therapeutic and medical care.
Because I miss the deeply southern energy of a porch light chat, I've called my practice Porch Light Peer Support. For those I work with, I hope that Porch Light sessions might come to feel like calling on a friend or chosen family.
A quick guide to Porch Light sessions:
My aim is to support your discoveries in professional psycho-therapeutic spaces with peer support sessions that may be booked as needed or scheduled to support you through specific forms of therapy or medical care.
Porch Light sessions work well as therapy aftercare, either following or in-between therapy sessions with your provider. 30 and 50-minute sessions are available during weekdays and weekday evenings.
Porch Light Peer Support sessions can also focus on:
Porch Light Peer Support sessions are always sliding scale.
Because peer support is not considered professional mental health care, many insurers will not help cover session fees. White-privileged, well-resourced, and fully employed folks are encouraged to pay more for Porch Light sessions.
Your session fee will be negotiated in your no-cost intro call with Gray—please feel free to share your budget and/or financial circumstances in your consultation request. Read more about Gray and their peer support approach here.