Neesa Suncheuri Sunar, LMSW

Neesa Suncheuri Sunar, LMSWNeesa Suncheuri Sunar, LMSWNeesa Suncheuri Sunar, LMSW
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Neesa Suncheuri Sunar, LMSW

Neesa Suncheuri Sunar, LMSWNeesa Suncheuri Sunar, LMSWNeesa Suncheuri Sunar, LMSW
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I firmly believe in the transformative power of peer support. It has saved my life, and given my soul a reason to live.


Check out my portfolio of articles!

Since 2015, I've written articles on numerous websites about mental health peer support and the mental health disability experience. In more recent months, I'm now investigating the intersection between music and disability. 


Please click below to see my portfolio, filled with links to my articles!

See my Portfolio

How I use the mutuality of Intentional Peer Support in my music teaching

When I am In Tune, My Body Knows It: Playing with Multisensory Aphantasia

When I am In Tune, My Body Knows It: Playing with Multisensory Aphantasia

Article on The Strad, about how private music instructors can use the modality of Intentional Peer Support in lessons to support students.

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When I am In Tune, My Body Knows It: Playing with Multisensory Aphantasia

When I am In Tune, My Body Knows It: Playing with Multisensory Aphantasia

When I am In Tune, My Body Knows It: Playing with Multisensory Aphantasia

Article on The Strad, about learning challenges I've faced with having a condition that affects how I mentally practice & approach the viola.

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A Musician with Sensory Overload Shows There are Ways to Adapt

When I am In Tune, My Body Knows It: Playing with Multisensory Aphantasia

A Musician with Sensory Overload Shows There are Ways to Adapt

Article on Psyche: about feeling overwhelmed with the loudness of orchestral playing, switching to Early Music performance to adapt.

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Heroic Artist Battles the Stigma of Mental Illness

I have no mind’s eye: let me try to describe it for you

A Musician with Sensory Overload Shows There are Ways to Adapt

Article on Art Funder, a video interview with Issa Ibrahim, artist and mental health advocate.

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I have no mind’s eye: let me try to describe it for you

I have no mind’s eye: let me try to describe it for you

I have no mind’s eye: let me try to describe it for you

Photo by Juan Pablo Serrano Arenas

Article on Psyche, a description of Aphantasia, a condition I have that renders me with a "blind mind's eye."

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Does the NASW Code of Ethics Prohibit Peer Work?

I have no mind’s eye: let me try to describe it for you

I have no mind’s eye: let me try to describe it for you

Article on Mad In America, an analysis of the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics regulations on dual relationships.

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Accepting & cultivating autistic talent – insights from a writer with autism

Accepting & cultivating autistic talent – insights from a writer with autism

Accepting & cultivating autistic talent – insights from a writer with autism

Article on The Rosie Report, an article on the need for accepting and integrating autistic folks into the workforce.

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Healing with the Power of Art

Accepting & cultivating autistic talent – insights from a writer with autism

Accepting & cultivating autistic talent – insights from a writer with autism

Article on Semi-Colon, a personal recollection of art therapy and its effect on me, followed by a description of the holistic modality of art therapy.

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Peer Support Is More Than My Job — It’s Also My Lifeline

Accepting & cultivating autistic talent – insights from a writer with autism

Mental Health Peer Specialists and Their Vision for a Civil Rights Movement

Article on Greatist, a day in my life as a peer specialist during the COVID pandemic in 2020, connecting with clients over the phone.

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Mental Health Peer Specialists and Their Vision for a Civil Rights Movement

Mental Health Peer Specialists and Their Vision for a Civil Rights Movement

Mental Health Peer Specialists and Their Vision for a Civil Rights Movement

Academic paper on Invisible Disability Project, how mental health peer specialists desire reform of the psychiatric system.

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Meditation Triggered My Psychosis; Reiki Healed It

Mental Health Peer Specialists and Their Vision for a Civil Rights Movement

Meditation Triggered My Psychosis; Reiki Healed It

Article on Mad In America, spiritual meditation under a guru triggered my psychosis, and I used reiki to gently heal from that practice.

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