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“The need to understand therapy through a critical and radical lens matters now more than ever. And Julie Tilsen is exactly the person to provide it.”—Dave Zirin

“The text we need to move past bromides of self-care and the ways pop psychology puts the onus of therapy squarely onto individuals to figure out … a masterful guide for making such an approach possible.”—Dr. Steven Thrasher

“This is the book for getting radical about therapy for real change. A stunning indictment of therapy and a way forward through it and out the other side.”—Dr. Ian Parker

Julie Tilsen is the author of Queering Your Therapy Practice (Routledge, 2021; winner of the AASECT 2022 Book of the Year Award); Narrative Approaches to Youth Work (Routledge, 2018); and Therapeutic Conversations with Queer Youth (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013) as well as a variety of professional articles and book chapters. Julie is community faculty in the Youth Studies Program of the University of Minnesota, an associate of the Taos Institute, and recipient of the Minnesota Association of Marriage and Family Therapy Distinguished Service Award (2011). You may find Julie watching the Minnesota Gophers Women’s Hockey team, riding her bike, on a hike, or tramping through the woods on snowshoes. She’s probably outside throwing a ball for her dog, Bumper. Coffee will always be involved.