The Political Act of Feminist Therapy: Working with Women Who Experience Intimate Partner Violence
The Political Act of Feminist Therapy: Working with Women Who Experience Intimate Partner Violence
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Educational Goal
To increase awareness of the influence and impact of therapeutic services on women who experience intimate partner violence and learn how to practice tools of empowerment.
Description
The practice of mental health counseling and therapy is a political act. As therapists, we have an ethical responsibility to carefully contemplate our power and influence. We are invited to advocate on behalf of the people we serve each time we conduct an assessment, write a note, or assign a diagnosis. Our actions have the power to change the course of people’s lives when they are often at their most vulnerable. What would you like to do with your power and influence on behalf of the people you serve? This presentation explores the politics of therapy with women who are impacted by intimate partner violence. Explore frames of empowerment while learning beneficial institutional advocacy skills used to navigate the powerful interconnected systems that compose a coordinated community response.
Target Audience
- Counselor
- Marriage & Family Therapist
- Social Worker
- Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Presenters
Pamela is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC). She specializes in assisting women to integrate the impact of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and other forms of adversity and oppression encountered by women. She has over 30 years of experience working in community-based social services and 10 years exclusively with domestic abuse survivors. She is the founder of Resilient Women, a place of support and connection for women impacted by abuse. Resilient Women is designed in response to the expressed needs of survivors. Pamela provides individual and group mental health therapy, institutional advocacy, and peer-to-peer domestic abuse response education for mental health professionals. She teaches Intimate Partner Violence Dynamics and Community Response and Introduction to Feminist Therapy at College of the Atlantic. Pamela is the 2015 recipient of the John D. Burchard Award for her contributions to the mental health field, working with Maine teenagers seeking to end dating violence.