Feminist Depth Psychotherapy

Depth and feminist psychotherapies start with the idea that people are more than their symptoms. Those symptoms are not “something wrong with you” but expressions of suffering that have served some purpose, even if they now stand in the way of your health and wellbeing. Depth psychotherapy attends to the ways these symptoms express a need for transformation. Feminist psychotherapy attends to the ways these symptoms have supported one’s survival in the face of trauma, and how complicated it can be to find healing under cultural forces and power dynamics that perpetuate suffering.

Depth and feminist psychotherapies move toward healing with an understanding that every one of us is made of many voices and relationships, inner and outer. Depth psychotherapy brings you into new relationship with other aspects of self. Feminist psychotherapy brings you into new relationship with dynamics of power and of care, within self and in community.

Depth and feminist psychotherapies honor the wisdom of the body and the language of image. Depth  psychotherapy understands psyche’s primary mode of communication to be imaginal, bridging mind and body. Feminist psychotherapy offers tools to understand how body-knowing gets repressed, and tools to support the process of coming back into touch with one’s body-knowing.