As a feminist psychotherapist, my practice focuses on recovering and healing feminine stories as they manifest across the lifespans and lineages of women.
Gender is a construct, something fluid and always developing for every individual. While I work with all genders, individuals who come into therapy with me are often in need of addressing something lost in their feminine line. Most often, I work with self-identified women, as our stories have been left out of many psychological and patriarchal frameworks.
Feminine knowledge and experience have repeatedly been disappeared through gaslighting, domestic violence, isolation, or the unequal burden of childcare. Feminist psychotherapy offers an opportunity to disrupt the old stories, remember what has been left out, and restore a relationship to the sacred feminine.
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
William Makepeace Thackery, Vanity Fair
There is no singular path of feminist psychotherapy, but it can include any of the following:
- Relationship to one’s own mother
- Death of a mother or grandmother
- The crossroads of becoming a mother and reexperiencing childhood through the role of a caregiver
- Family planning including issues related to fertility, surrogacy, adoption, and choosing whether or not to have children in the face of collective factors like climate change and reproductive inequities
- Postpartum period including Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders
- Divorce
- Stepparenting and blended families
- Abortion care
- Grief and child loss
- Bodily attunement through puberty, the menstrual cycle, menopause and beyond
- Choices about birth control and sexual health
- Survivors of domestic violence and sexual trauma
- Reclaiming pleasure
I am deeply committed to restoring relationship to the sacred feminine within, one individual at a time. While this always begins with the mother, who is our entry point into understanding the world, the psychological work also extends back generations, forward into our children, and horizontally in the present moment.