Zine Therapy

What is Zine Therapy?

Zine Therapy is what I call a montly self-therapy project that I started in 2023. I have always used zines for therapy, and even at one point had a series called "Letters to my Therapist" where I explored cognitive distortions and symptoms during a time when I couldn't afford therapy.

My first season of Zine Therapy was a huge success! It helped me navigate burnout at work, family relationships, anxiety about going outside, and more. In the course of my first year, I reconnected with parts of myself I had forgotten, restarted a reading habit, and got my first cat!

Self-therapy takes a lot of focus and emotional energy, but Zine Therapy is a structured way to approach it that could help anyone. With this in mind, I've created this site to share the resource with anyone who might find it useful! Take what you need and leave the rest.

Navigate using the links above and below to read about my process, the benefits, and how you can use this template for self-therapy and zine-making. This is a completely free resource.

This website includes everything you need to do Zine Therapy, in addition to more articles and resources for your self-therapy journey.

If you pop around the site you'll see links to Google docs where you can copy templates and download things. Here, you can get them all together in one ZIP file.

Go to my gumroad for the free Zine Therapy package download. I do this through gumroad so I can keep track of interest.

Disclaimer: I am not a professional therapist and I don’t have a degree, training, or the necessary credentials to help people 1-1. This is a peer-to-peer knowledge resource*. I am not available for personal mentorship or mental health assistance.

I've been sharing my process for self-care since 2012 in zines, but this time I made a site.

* © 2024 CC BY-NC-SA

This means you can share/redistribute and adapt/transform the idea and resources, as long as you provide credit to me and indicate if changes were made. You cannot make money off of anything you create as a result, and you must share it under the same CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. A link back to this website will suffice as credit!