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The Feminist Way offers transformative, trauma-focused psychotherapy and coaching that understands emotional and physical pain in context. Trauma is not treated as a personal flaw, but as a response to real conditions—both personal and systemic. This approach recognizes how power, inequality, identity, and lived experience shape mental health, and why healing cannot be separated from the social and political realities around us.

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Rooted in intersectionality, education, equity, social justice, and feminist consciousness, The Feminist Way rejects the idea that suffering exists in a vacuum or that healing is an individual responsibility alone. Care is collaborative, radical, and affirming—supporting nervous system healing, self-trust, agency, and meaning-making. This work is about more than coping; it is about transformation, empowerment, and collective liberation.

The Feminist Way is for women, men, BIPOC, disabled people, and LGBTQ+ individuals seeking therapy that is real, relational, and aware—care that supports healing while staying connected to who you are and the world you live in.

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In this collaborative and inclusive space, you belong and you deserve to exist just as you are!

What We Do

  • Provide trauma-focused therapy and coaching that understands emotional pain in personal and systemic context

  • Center intersectionality, equity, education, social justice, and feminist consciousness

  • Acknowledge power, honor lived experience, and center people’s rights, dignity, and agency

  • Create space for honesty, safety, reflection, and meaning-making

  • Support nervous system healing, self-trust, clarity, resilience, and empowerment

  • Offer collaborative, affirming care that supports both personal healing and collective liberation

  • Challenge systems that harm while supporting individuals in reclaiming agency and purpose
     

What We Do Not Do

  • Rely on toxic positivity, forced optimism, or “just think differently” approaches

  • Offer neutral, apolitical, or detached care

  • Reduce trauma to individual pathology or personal failure

  • Ask clients to disconnect from the world or minimize what they’ve lived through

  • Limit therapy to surface-level coping or unstructured venting without intention or depth

We excel at:

​Exploring emotional distress
by examining how lived experiences, relationships, social expectations, and cultural messages shape the experience of pain and suffering 

Addressing mental health through a feminist lens
by recognizing how power, inequality, violence, and identity impact well-being, and supporting awareness, agency, and healing in everyday life

Providing healing strategies through story-telling, empowerment, independent research-based skills and compassionate care that sees clients as part of a larger context, not as a problem to be fixed 

Proposing effective ways to help care professionals of all levels of expertise, to incorporate mental health awareness, social justice and feminist consciousness into their practice

©2024 The Feminist Way, LLC
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