HOW THE CO-OP WORKS
A community held by agreements, not just intentions.
Everyone who enters agrees to how we hold the space. These are the agreements that make it possible.
AGREEMENT ONE
Everyone belongs here
Anti-carceral, anti-oppressive, and built for people the mental health system has historically failed.
Solidarity over saviorism
AGREEMENT FOUR
We don't fix people here. We build the net together — provider and community member, clinician and peer.
No hierarchy of suffering
AGREEMENT TWO
Clinician voice and lived experience voice sit at the same table. No one's perspective is more valid because of credentials — or despite them.
AGREEMENT FIVE
Specificity over relatability
We say real things plainly. No performed empathy, no vague affirmations. Just honest language about hard things.
AGREEMENT THREE
The conversation is ongoing
This community is not a product. It's a practice. It changes as we learn, and we're honest when we get something wrong.
AGREEMENT SIX
Community is the infrastructure
The net we're building here is the point. When one strand fails, another catches you. That's what we're making.
Meet Our Team
Please enjoy our obligatory collection of professional headshots.
Behind them are clinicians, peers, facilitators, and actual human beings with opinions, bad days, good ideas, and varying relationships with their inboxes.
These are the people building the Co-op.
Meet The Founder
Ryan Lennon is a nurse practitioner, advocate, and founder dedicated to transforming mental health care through community, connection, and lived experience. Having navigated her own diagnosis of bipolar disorder, Ryan brings a profoundly human perspective to her work, viewing her personal journey not as a liability, but as vital insight into where the current mental health system falls short. With years of experience in the healthcare field—spanning direct patient care, suicide prevention crisis counseling, and systemic health initiatives—she is on a mission to shift care away from reactive crisis management toward proactive, community-based healing. Ryan speaks on the power of coregulation, destigmatizing mental health and building sustainable, foundational wellness. Her work is guided by a simple core mission: healing through community, generosity, and meaningful specifics.
Our Team
Dr. Doctor
Medical Director
AJ
President
Morgan
Community Director
Chandra
Socials Master
Ryan Lennon
Psych NP