Questions About Feminist Therapy

I must admit that I'd never heard of feminist therapy until I performed a WordTracker search on the word feminist.

Yet a number of people searched google for answers about feminist therapy. Some of their questions are:

• Who is the founder of feminist therapy?
  
• Why become a feminist therapist?
  
• Why are therapists attracted to feminist therapy?
  

Since the phrase feminist therapist is interesting to me, I decided to do a bit of research to share with multipurpose-woman kindred.

Feminist Therapy Referral Project

The google search "feminist therapists" introduced me to The Feminist Therapy Referral Project. It sounds promising, unfortunately, they only make referrals to therapists in part of California. I'm way over in Louisville, Ky.

How Do You Find a Feminist Therapist?

To make finding a feminist therapist harder, according to an article at SelfHelpMagazine dot com by Mary H. Guindon, Ph.D., a feminist therapist "may or may not use the term feminist". ?Then how would a seeker know that the therapist has a feminist awareness and is operating in feminist therapist mode?

My Initial Learnings About Feminist Therapy

1. It's talk based (psychotherapy)
2. Finding a feminist therapist requires talking with other women
3. You need to read up on feminist therapy before trying to find a therapist. It'll help you compile a list of questions and give you information about what to look, listen, and feel for.

The following strategies are typical of feminist therapy;

Per Wikipedia contributors, "Feminist therapy," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Feminist_therapy&oldid=163111674 (accessed December 15, 2007).

• Empowerment
  
• Self-disclosure
  
• Gender-role analysis
  
• Gender-role intervention
  
• Power analysis and power intervention
  
• Bibliotherapy
  
• Assertiveness training
  
• Reframing and relabeling
  
• Group work
  
• Social action

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Feminist Therapy Booklist

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Feminist Therapy Booklist

Here's a book list of useful sounding books about feminist therapy.

Share Your Feminist Therapy Experiences

Tell other mature women about your experiences with feminist therapy. How did you find your therapist? How did you know to seek a feminist therapist? How did feminist therapy differ from your other therapy experiences?

If you think another woman could benefit from something you know about feminist therapy here's an opportunity to let her know.

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