ABSTRACT
Allies use their privilege to challenge oppression. They choose to disrupt oppressive policies and practices in their professions and workplaces. With clients, they consider approaches to promote connections for support and solidarity with community groups and organizations. These efforts may involve others in their therapy to bear witness and group practices that create feelings of belonging through collective shared experience. Case networking is a method by which therapists may connect clients with professional, self-help and activist communities of support. Outreach is a means of connecting that offers potential advantages for a client who might otherwise face multiple barriers to meeting a therapist. Advocacy offers many potential ways to support a specific client as well as groups of similarly affected individuals or entire communities that have faced disadvantage.
