As healers, we’re under a lot of pressure and we’re tired... But, we don’t have to face this moment of constant attacks on humanity alone.


A 3-month interdisciplinary learning and reflective space for queer, neuroqueer, and cultural renegade therapists, coaches, and helping professionals.


Many of us are burning out, feeling isolated, and unsure about how to align our values with our practices under late-stage capitalism.


We need community, support, creative approaches, tools, and spaces where we can be held in our full, embodied selves with compassion and accountability. 


Welcome to the Renegade Practitioners Network!


A space by neuroqueer, disabled, culturally renegade facilitators for neuroqueer, queer, and cultural renegade therapists, coaches, and helping professionals.


This is a movement towards a more relational, sustainable, and interdependent way of working in community towards our collective healing and liberation.

This course is for you if:


  • You are queer, neuroqueer, or some other kind of cultural renegade. 
  • You are a therapist, coach, or any kind of helping professional who wants to be in a space that affirms non-normative identities and who doesn't see neurodivergence, disability, queerness, gender expansiveness, sex work, kink, or non-monogamy as inherently problematic. Yet, you also acknowledge that living with marginalised, criminalised, and othered identities can contribute to distress and poor mental health outcomes for both ourselves and our clients.
  • You’re not a fan of capitalism yet you’ve still got to pay your bills!
  • You want to learn more about practising the balance between affirming the impact of oppression and supporting people to build the life they want. 
  • You are looking to connect and build community with like-minded practitioners who share similar identities, values, beliefs and who work with client populations who have been historically harmed by the healthcare industrial complex.

What’s included:

Length: 3 months

Start Date: April 2026 on the first and third Monday of the month from 10am-12pm PST / 12pm - 2pm CST / 1pm - 3pm EST / 6-8pm UK time / 7-9pm Southern Europe Time

Capacity: Max 17 participants per cohort

Each month, you’ll receive:
  • Live 2-hours educational group (recorded ) — didactic & experiential content
  • Resources and exercises — for integration and experimentation
  • Live 2-hour process group (not recorded) — a space for questions, conversation, connection, and embodied processing
  • Networking / community space online (optional)
  • Forever access to all replays and materials
Themes we’ll explore

Each month centers around a theme but we will also be responsive to your needs, which will be collected through the application process. Some of the initial themes we’re envisioning as supportive for now are:

  • Unlearning internalised oppression and how it shows up in our work
  • Sustainability with innovation, creativity, and ethics
  • Radical collaboration and connection in a hyper-individualistic & competitive world

We’re so looking forward to reading what you think will be helpful for you in your application!
What makes this different

This isn’t just an educational or process program. It’s a space for:

  • Going beyond scripts about how life and our practices “should” work
  • Challenging binary notions of how we relate to each other and ourselves
  • Practicing collaboration and co-creation
  • Holding questions and challenges in community
  • Supporting one another to thrive together rather than compete against each other
This is a collaborative program challenging the capitalist and white-supremacist values of perfectionism, individualism, infinite growth, power hoarding, outcome over process, saviorism, and treating our own bodyminds as commodities.

Who we are:


Dr. Alex Iantaffi is a conditionally white, trans, polyam, kinky, disabled, neuroqueer, late-diagnosed AuDHDer who lives with C-PTSD, hEDS, MCAS & dysautonomia. They are also an immigrant with citizenship privilege who lives on Dakota and Anishinaabe territories currently known as Duluth, Minnesota, in the so-called United States. Alex is a cultural worker, licensed family therapist, WPATH certified gender specialist, AASECT certified sex therapist & supervisor, Somatic ExperiencingⓇ practitioner, clinical supervisor and supervisor mentor. They are Past President of the Minnesota Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, Former Chair & Co-founder of the Queer and Trans Advocacy Network a topical interest network of AAMFT), and Chair of the Gender Diverse special interest group for AASECT. Alex is the author of several books, including "Gender Trauma: healing cultural, social, and historical gendered trauma", which was awarded the Nautilus gold category award and the AASECT Book Award for Sexuality Professionals. They were the recipient of the 2023 AASECT Humanitarian Award, the 2019 MAMFT Distinguished Service Award, the 2013 Twin Cities Deaf Pride Community Organization Award, the 2012 Breaking the Silence Award at the University of Minnesota, and the 2000 Best Dissertation Award from the British Educational Research Association.  Alex is a sought-after International speaker and trainer who has presented (and published) extensively on gender, disability, sexuality, trauma, HIV education and prevention, research methods, spirituality, and relationships. They also host the podcast Gender Stories and the YouTube series Warm Take Wednesdays with Dr. Alex Iantaffi. When they are not working, writing, parenting, or organizing, Alex can be found reading, sitting by the lake, crafting, watching TV and movies, making music, reading tarot, cooking, dancing, doing ritual, and hanging out with their dogs. Alex loves collaborating with others in service to the vision of a more liberated world for all of us. More at www.alexiantaffi.com 

Dr Sophia Graham is a settled, white, (neuro)queer, disabled, consensually non-monogamous survivor presently living on unceded Massachusett land. She is an academic turned therapist who started learning and then teaching DBT skills in 2016. Sophia served on the Health and Care Professionals Council for 8 years, in that time she accredited degree programmes and was part of panels judging health, conduct, and competency panels for healthcare professionals. She is a member of the Judiciary in the UK, hearing Employment Tribunal cases since 2004. Self-consent is her passion project – and the work she finds most personally challenging, too. A wise friend once told her, “Your mess is your message”, and she is living proof of concept (thanks, Meg-John Barker). She is a professional member of The Association of Somatic and Integrative Sexologists (ASIS) and complies with their ethical code. She enjoys regular professional development, particularly around DBT skills, gender and sexual diversity, consensual non-monogamy, out-of-control sexual behaviour, consent, sex work and neurodiversity. She runs loveuncommon.com with some of her favourite people and loves to facilitate and participate in mutual aid groups and practices.  

Pricing & Access



$575 per month 

Unlimited equity pricing spots at $287 for Indigenous, Black, Brown, and People of the Global Majority.

Two additional equity pricing spots at $287 for people with more limited financial access.

Two discounted spots at $460 for early career professionals or people who don’t quite need the equity pricing but who have more limited financial means.

If you live outside of the so-called United States and this pricing is not congruent with your local economics situation, please contact us and we’re sure we can figure something that is more sustainable together.

Application process
This is an intentional and intimate learning and processing space. To preserve depth and connection, we are accepting up to 17 participants.

FAQ

How do I know if this training is for me?
Investing in a training or program is always a very personal decision, so we cannot give you a definitive answer. However, here are some questions you can ask yourself to help you identify whether this offering might be for you. We hope they are helpful:

  • Do you love your work, but you have started to feel isolated and burned out?
  • Are you noticing feelings of hopelessness about your work during this current moment?
  • Do you have values that seem hard to reconcile with your practice, and what you have been taught during the training you have undertaken for your current work?
  • Do you yearn for a collaborative, nuanced space where we look for creative ideas together instead of receiving canned answers or “roadmaps to success” that do not feel in integrity with who you are?
  • Have you found it difficult to find a space where all of you is not only included but welcome, centered, and celebrated?

Why are you charging so much?
We sincerely wish we could do this for free or charge much less, but we believe that part of this work is to be honest with ourselves about our capacities and needs. Like you, we’re also trying to survive under late-stage capitalism. As disabled and neuroqueer practitioners, we’re striving not to treat ourselves as commodities either. The cost reflects not just the investment of time spent face-to-face with attendees but also the preparation needed, individually and relationally, to show up resourced, prepared, and present. It also helps us offer unlimited equity pricing for Indigenous, Black, Brown, and People of the Global Majority, some limited spots for people with more limited financial means, and finally, for people living outside the so-called United States who are living in different economic realities from ours. This is not about paying us “what we’re worth” under a capitalist mindset, but rather what is realistic for our bodyminds in our current individual and collective circumstances of living under late-stage capitalism. 

What does ‘renegade practitioner’ mean? Do I fit in?
The way we think about it, a renegade practitioner is a practitioner who is working for and towards cultural change in service to our collective liberation. This can mean so many things, of course! For example, it could mean that you are a mental health provider who is an abolitionist, or a white coach working on dismantling white supremacy culture. Those are just a couple of examples, there are so many possibilities that it would be impossible to list them all! If you feel that you are working in ways that push back against dominant culture, or that do not fit with the way you were trained, this space is for you. We also decided to use the word practitioner to include a range of professions, since we believe our scopes of practice are distinct yet complementary.

Will you be able to accommodate my access needs?
As disabled practitioners, we strive to meet the access needs of folks within this programme as best as we’re able. We will ensure that all sessions are captioned, that replays are available, and that everyone has access to the materials ahead of the class so they can prepare. You are always welcome to have your camera off, if you need to, and to communicate via chat functions instead of verbally. We would like to meet any additional access needs, so please let us know what would help you get the most out of the programme. If you require sign language interpretation or other support that needs us to hire additional professionals, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can do our best to accommodate this. Thank you.

Can I get CEs for this program?
If you need Continuing Education credits, you may be able to get them for the educational portions of this program, depending on the requirements of your licensure and/or certification. This can vary greatly from profession to profession as well as from state to state and across different countries. We can provide you with our CVs on request, descriptions of all the educational portions complete with learning objectives and this can often satisfy requirements for some professional licenses and/or certifications. We’re also working on evaluating whether we can offer something more formal when it comes to CEs. If you have specific needs around this, please let us know and we’ll do our best to support you in collecting the necessary evidence, although you will need to personally submit it to your own licensing and/or certifying board if that is necessary.

What if I can’t attend every session?
We recognise that sometimes life gets in the way of attending every session, even when you start out expecting to attend them all. Sessions will be recorded so that you can catch up if needed. While attending all the sessions isn’t required for the programme, we think you’ll get more out of it if you can attend the live sessions. 

What if I want to work with you one-to-one alongside this?
We both have different scopes of practice and work with others 1-1 in a number of ways. If you’re interested in 1-1 work, please approach us directly and we can evaluate whether we can accommodate this and, if not, refer you to another colleague who might be better able to meet your needs.

What if I want more after this class ends?
Depending on interest, we may create an ongoing processing and coaching group to do this work at the end of the class. This would be a monthly group, only open to folks who have taken this programme, facilitated by Sophia and Alex. 

What if I need to cancel at the last minute, can I get a refund?
Generally we do not offer refunds, sorry. However, we also understand that things happen! If you notify us before the course starts and we are able to give your spot to someone else, we will be able to offer a refund minus a 10% administrative fee. If we are not able to fill a spot that had already been dedicated to you, we might be able to offer you a spot in a future cohort or a different program of similar value.
If you need to drop out as we go through the course, we will not be able to offer you a refund. However, you will still have forever access to all replays and materials.

Final Invitation

If you think this is for you, please don’t delay applying! We will only run this program if we have a minimum of 8 participants, both to make it financially viable for us and to guarantee sufficient interactivity and relationality within the group. If you’re not sure whether this course is for you, we’re happy to offer a 20-minute discovery call with one of us to help you decide and answer any outstanding questions you might have. If you’re ready to sign up, you can fill out the application form here. Thank you! We’re looking forward to working with you.