As I wrote the first draft of this post, a thunder storm was rolling through the Southern Interior, and a fire had started on the other side of the hill from where we live. We had rain the next day, ...

This post was first published on Tiffany’s Patreon page! The timing of publication on the Groundfire blog is offset by at least a week or so. Dear friends, We're a few days into the Trans Rights Read...

Hey y’all, Evren here :) We are approaching the end of our second fiscal year as Groundfire, and I while I already put together a Financial Accountability page on our website back in November I compl...

I had a whole plan for posting weekly about notable Black narrative practitioners in the month of February, as a kickstart to posting more regularly about dignifying narrative practices that have inf...

An Ecosystem Model: Sliding Scale Therapeutic Conversations In July of 2024, we made a post offering transparency about how we came up with our sliding scale. It is now a year and a half later, and m...

A new home for an old unpublished manuscript.In 2018, as a part of my capstone/final project of my Masters degree, I wrote a paper about the challenges I was already noticing as a queer and trans pra...

A comic about some expectations that societal ideas of therapy sometimes visit upon us, by Evren Salja.TRANSCRIPTWhat Society tells us counselling is…BEHOLD! The PSYCHOANALYSIS X-RAY GOGGLES!An x-ray...

One of the main misconceptions about Groundfire CCW is that we’re a non-profit that receives government or charitable funding. This is not the case. People are often confused when they find out that ...

Sliding Scale Therapeutic ConversationsIn the interest of economic justice, we offer our therapeutic conversations at a wide sliding scale range, from low-resourced access to ‘pay it forward’ rates. ...