Therapy Notes

By Fae the Firth

In this comics perzine, I wanted to explore assembling the various notes, drawings and doodles I made during, and in-between, sessions with my (private) therapist over the last two and a half years, and in doing so, think more closely about this therapeutic relationship, about therapy more broadly, and about ways of recording experiences and relationships without falling back into a linear narrative. In exploring how I might archive these ‘therapy notes’ through comics, I also consider what I will do with the large box of documents from the period of time I was in mental health services and the criminal justice system.