A Healing Space for Queer Creativity and Connection
Grounded in care, creativity, and relational practice. Queer Spaces offers workshops, therapy, and community for LGBTQIA+ folks.
One-to-One Psychotherapy and Counselling
CPD for Mental Health Practitioners
Queer Love Letters Workshops
ABOUT QUEER SPACESQueer Spaces is a collective of artists and psychotherapists – Dr Guy Harries, Yasmeen Brett, and Katie Merritt – creating spaces where queer lives and stories are honoured. We offer spaces for reflection, care, and collective healing, grounded in anti-oppressive, culturally responsive practice. We understand that healing is not linear, and that each person’s path is shaped by a unique combination of personal history and the systems of power we exist in.
Our work centres the wisdom of lived experience, recognising that wellbeing looks different for everyone. Through our creative queer love letters workshops, one-to-one therapy and CPD sessions we offer space to process, to express, and to simply be, in community. We believe that collective care is vital, and that queer spaces for rest, joy and healing are not only necessary – they are transformative.
🌈 Queer Love Letters Booklet
Stories, art, and reflections from the Queer Spaces community
Our Queer Love Letters booklet is a tender archive of queer connection, resistance, and self-expression. Co-created through our creative wellbeing workshops and in collaboration with the University of East London, it brings together personal letters, artwork, prompts, and poetic fragments — each one a love note to someone, something, or somewhere that holds meaning.
This booklet captures the raw beauty of queer storytelling. Within its pages, you’ll find offerings to lovers, friends, ancestors, chosen family, pets — and to the self.
It is more than a publication. It’s a quiet protest, a gesture of care, and a celebration of queer lives told in our own words and images.
Created by facilitators and queer psychotherapists Guy Harries, Yasmeen Brett, and Katie Merritt, and supported by Dr Nikolaos Souvlakis (University of Westminster), this project reflects our belief that creativity and collective expression are powerful forms of healing.
What’s inside:
🌀 Original love letters written during our workshops
🎨 Visual art from community members
📜 Writing and art prompts for you to explore at your own pace
🫀 Themes of grief, joy, identity, resistance, and belonging
🌿 A visual and emotional reflection of the spaces we hold together
This booklet is available in limited print editions at our workshops and events.
Winners of ‘Researching the Rainbow’ Award hosted by National Student Pride 2025
What participants have said about our workshops