A Healing Space for Queer Creativity and Connection
Rooted in care, creativity, and relational psychotherapy practice, Queer Spaces provides a welcoming hub for the LGBTQIA+ community offering EDI workshops, therapy training intensives, and one-to-one therapy.
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OUR STORYQueer Spaces began as Queer Love Letters, lovingly devising creative workshops to serve our local community, creating spaces where queer lives and stories are celebrated and honoured.
Born from friendship, a shared training in psychotherapy and mutual history as professional artists, our organisation evolved to become Queer Spaces. We are Yasmeen Brett, Dr Guy Harries and Katie Merritt.
Since then our work has expanded, providing creative environments to enrich, empower and embolden. Our work spans across universities, therapeutic organisations, and corporate environments.
We believe in the transformative power of spaces to reflect, heal, express, and simply be. Grounded in anti-oppressive, culturally responsive practice, our work centres the wisdom of lived experience and celebrates queerness in all its richness.
Our Offerings:
Winners of ‘Researching the Rainbow’ Award hosted by National Student Pride 2025
What participants have said about our workshops
“Great team work and connection to myself left me feeling safe and warm.”
“This space really works. Joy, peaceful energy. Thank you.”
“Really loved the meditation at the start, made me feel grounded. Movement was scary but was so freeing. It felt like coming home.”
🌈 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.