Carly is a feminist Marxist therapist and Art activist, with a background in the voluntary sector and years of experience in private practice. Currently she works as the Creative Arts therapist for a young people’s social mental health charity in Bristol. Carly is also a member of the Red Clinic- a collective of left-wing therapists committed to promoting radical approaches to counselling & psychotherapy, with the goal of making therapy accessible to the working classes and ‘the oppressed.’ She holds qualifications in Counselling, Sociology, Politics and Art which have enabled her to ‘transcend’ (though she rejects the concept) her working-class roots and feel smug. She believes that the ‘personal really is political’, a key thread which runs throughout all of her work.