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Therapy refers to professional support provided by trained practitioners to help individuals address emotional, psychological, or behavioural challenges. Therapeutic approaches may involve counselling, skill-building, trauma processing, or other strategies that support mental health and well-being. In education contexts, therapy may be recommended when students are experiencing anxiety, trauma, or other challenges that affect their ability to participate in school. While therapy can help individuals develop coping strategies, it does not replace the responsibility of institutions to address the environmental conditions contributing to distress.

The apology is probably not coming. It is worth saying plainly, before anything else, because so much of what keeps families suspended in the aftermath of institutional harm is the unspoken anticipation of it — the sense that healing cannot properly…

Complaints are stressful for the whole family, and children are perceptive in ways that adults consistently underestimate. A child does not need to overhear a specific conversation to absorb the tension that a complaint process generates — they feel it in…