Dear Sunnie..

“I’m still getting over my ex and i’m nervous about going to pride. I can’t get myself out of this funk! What do I do?” -anonymousinseattle

Hey queer! It makes so much sense you are nervous about Pride! It can feel so good to be connected with a partner and celebrate. Be kind to yourself and surround yourself with your peeps. Pride was a protest for Queer Existence! Show up and celebrate you! Your connection to yourself fuels your connection to the community! #thrivewithpride #cheersqueers #pride2021 #gayallday #loveislove #gayok #blacktranslivesmatter #lgbtqia

Be gentle with yourselves today… full of grief, rage, and power as i remember our children, elders, and audacious lives who were ripped from this world. We are still Kin even after death. May their memory be eternal. #transdayofrememberance2024 #tdor #trans #blacktranslivesmatter #browntranslivesmatter #translivesmatter

It is really scary to lose privilege in a carceral society… and what’s a head is terrifying. But they want us focused on what they are going to try and take from us … they don’t want us to notice what and who we have with us. Take care of each other! Tend to your imagination and you will stoke your freedom 🖤✨🔥. #imaginemore #lovenow #queerartist #queerhealing #queerliving #pnwqueers #southernqueer #antiprivilege

Cistemic Harm (Systemic) Harm is Relational Harm! We can’t go to a cistem that doesn’t recognize our humanity for relational repair. We can’t wait on a system to change for our world to change. Your theory of change can start with you and your qts right here right now. Collective Care is generative and has not only the power to heal but to liberate. If you live in Saint Pete, Fl we will be practicing collective care THIS Friday the 15th at Noon EST. This is a mutual aid endeavor with know monetary cost to anyone participating. Please feel free to show up and bring partners, loved ones, friends. This container is for Trans, Queer, QTPOC folx. Please share this post with your Florida peeps. Please DM for location! #transawareness #protecttranskids #transrightsarehumanrights #mutualaid #floridamutualaid #collectivecare #traumainformed #queercare #queerlove #intersectionalintimacy #queersocialtherapy #lgbtqia #transcare #transrightsarehumanrights #nonbinary

Dearest Queer, How is your body? How are you mending in this time? I want to say to anyone struggling how could it not be so hard right now?! A tender reminder that your body is generative and to pay attention to what is fueling you right now. If you are in the Saint Pete or Tampa area in Florida. We are offering free queer social therapy this Friday at noon. This is an invitation to join a free event empowering folx to Clear “Social Body Aggression with Somatic Body Attention.” Florida Lovelies lets work that discrimination out of our bodies this Friday the 15th at Noon EST. For the safety of our container please DM for the exact location. This is a mutual aid endeavor with know monetary cost to anyone participating. Please feel free to show up and bring partners, loved ones, friends. This container is for Trans, Queer, QTPOC folx. Please share this post with your Florida peeps. #mutualaid #floridamutualaid #collectivecare #traumainformed #queercare #queerlove #intersectionalintimacy #queersocialtherapy #lgbtqia #transcare #transrightsarehumanrights #nonbinary

Is systemic discrimination building up in your body? It’s been a hellish week. I would love to invite you to join this free event empowering folx to Clear Social Body Aggression with Somatic Body Attention.” Florida Lovelies lets work that discrimination out of our bodies next Friday the 15th at Noon EST. For the safety of our container please DM for the exact location. This is a mutual aid endeavor with know monetary cost to anyone participating. Please feel free to show up and bring partners, loved ones, friends. This container is for Trans, Queer, QTPOC folx. Please share or tag in the comments this post with your Florida peeps. Social Body Aggression is the carried experience of the violence of systemic discrimination in the body. Somatic Body Attention helps us tend to the violence and release the toxicity that was never ours. In this gathering we will process and witness together moments where we have had encounters that haunt us or that presently occurs on a regular basis. Often we can get stuck trying to making meaning out of violent projections on to us. The aggression in discrimination is weaponized through projection. Together we will help name the projection in the aggression. Collective Somatic Body Attention helps us shift from focusing on the narratives and emotions we witness in the person harming us to the sensations of our felt experience in our bodies. So often when we are discriminated against in the world we are alone and not with others. Collective Witness is a powerful medicine. Queer love is an intersectional intimacy that is neither sexless nor does it require it. Our oppressors can not access that type of love. I have seen so much love and care in our community out there not he interwebs this past week. Lets keep going together! I hope y’all can take heart. And if you can’t, don’t worry there is a queer out there taking heart for you. Heartily, Sunnie #mutualaid #floridamutualaid #collectivecare #traumainformed #queercare #queerlove #intersectionalintimacy #queersocialtherapy #lgbtqia #transcare #transrightsarehumanrights #nonbinary

Next week I will be holding space in a free offering on how to process social body agressions. The systemic harm we live with is relational harm and we come to know it through interactions. This means the repair will also come through relationship ✨🖤 If you are interested or know people who are! Please share! Comment or tag people who might be interested! Please DM for dates and location.

Queer patients need Queer practitioners! I’m so excited to be joining the psychedelic renaissance of queer care! But I need your help! I’m one of a handful of queer practitioners getting certified to provide psilocybin treatment for Queer and Trans folx. This training and this medicine is not accessible for many in the community. Would you consider joining me on this journey by donating to my education. I’m part of the 2024 Cohort at InnerTrek Psilocybin school. We are in a moment when Psilocybin therapy is being shaped by practitioners across the country as they are offering potential relief for conditions such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and addiction. As this therapeutic approach gains traction, it is crucial to address the need for queer equity and inclusion within this emerging field. Queer individuals often face unique mental health challenges, including higher rates of trauma, discrimination, and minority stress, which can exacerbate psychological conditions. Ensuring equitable access to psilocybin therapy means creating an inclusive environment where queer patients feel safe, understood, and respected. This involves training therapists on LGBTQ+ cultural competencies, implementing anti-discrimination policies, and conducting research that includes diverse sexual and gender identities to better understand their specific needs and experiences. By prioritizing queer equity and inclusion, psilocybin therapy can become a more effective and accessible treatment option for all individuals, fostering a more inclusive mental health landscape. Please support me however you can! You can give here: https://gofund.me/559ed23b or Venmo @sunnietownsend

I got accepted into InnerTrek’s Psilocybin facilitation program! I’m reaching out because I would love you to consider supporting me in this venture. As a trauma practitioner, I know shat this medicine can be life changing for the Queer and Trans folx suffering from CPTSD and religious trauma. Psilocybin is an ancient medicine that has changed my life and the lives of so many others. When partnered with the medicine I bring as a healer, there is so much potential positive impact. It can cut the time that folx invest in therapy in half. Your gift will give back to me and so many. So now I turn to you - my community of friends and chosen family - to ask that you support me in accessing this training so that I may give more folx access to this care. The program is $8900 + licensing fees and expenses totals at about $10000. My goal is to raise $7000 to help cover the cost. Every bit helps! Please feel free to give through this GoFundMe or directly through Venmo @sunnietownsend. I love you all. Thank you for believing in me and the power of this medicine in helping our community. Please note that this money goes directly to training in facilitation only through the Oregon state regulated model. No funds will be applied toward the medicine. xoxoxo, Sunnie If you want to learn more about the school and training, here are some links from The Guardian and KATU (local ABC news).

Does your erotic life need attention and care? The Queer Sex Care Series is a trauma informed space designed for Queer and Trans folx. Queer, Trans and QTPOC folx are some of the most hypers3xulized identities in society. This means are sexual realities are legalized, silenced, and erased. If you are Trans/ENBY your Queer Liberation includes your pleasure! Trauma has been weaponized against our communities for Generations. Punishing LGBTQIA+ communities for who they love and want to have sex with has been a standard practice of oppression. This takes a tole on how QT & QTPOC folx actualize themselves in their erotic encounters with self and others. Generations of Queer & Trans folx have gone untended for far too long. QCC’s Queer Sex Series is a generative pursuit of collective healing and thriving. You will be joining a movement that designed to empower collective healing and thriving. This series centers the realities & liberation of Trans, Nonbinary, Bisexual, Pansexual and Lesbian folx. We need particular attention and care! Visit: queercareconnections.com/sexcare The Queer Sex Care Series: Part 1 OCT 29th 2-5pm PST Trauma & Arousal Part 2 NOV 5th 2-5pm PST IFS Parts Sex & Sexuality Part 3 NOV 11th, 2-5pm PST Sex, Fantasy & Embodiment #queercouple #queercare #queersexcare #queers3x #traumainformed #religioustrauma #queersocialtherapy #trans #pansexual #queerlove

Attention queerly loved! If you need gender affirming care, I have 2 open spots beginning in October! Gender affirming care is not limited to HRT or Medically Transitioning. If you are wading into gender expansive waters and are wanting attention and care please visit my site and schedule a consultation. You can find me at www.queercareconnections.com/get-care. Also link in bio. A little testimony of what working with me is like below: "I spent seven years wondering if I should get top surgery, bouncing from one "lgbtq friendly" yet utterly unprepared professional to another. For years I searched for a therapist or coach whom I could talk safely and authentically to in order to finally answer this pressing and painful internal question. Sunnie Townsend is the first professional I have been able to speak to about my gender in all its complexity and in its entirety. I felt totally safe, understood, and I could finally speak to someone who I related to! Within only a few months, I had confronted my conflicting feelings and found a safe place to own all of the versions of myself, with Sunnie's expert guidance. Not only that, I made an appointment with a surgeon and only 6 months after beginning our work, I am now having top surgery and feel totally resolved and supported! I will forever be grateful to have been blessed by this amazing support." ---Prince Cunningham, PhD #genderaffirmingcare #gendercare #queercare #queercareconnections #lgbtqia #traumainformed #altqueercare #alttranscare #trans #transinclusive #nonbinary #enby #enbyvibes #enby4life #queer #queercommunity #queercollective #queersocialtherapy