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Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · 9d

Those of us who are politically/ socially active often have to navigate dual relationships with clients where we share spaces. How can we do this with care? If you'd like to talk about this join our next Community Conversation on 21st Oct at 6pm UK time
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Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · 11d

Just under two weeks to go until our in-person event in London and we are getting very excited. If you would like to explore how we bridge the personal and political within therapy then come along!
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A promotional flyer for The Feminist Imagination in Therapy.
There are photographs of Lola Olufemi and Micha Frazer-Carroll alongside the logos of Mad Youth Organise and the Feminist Library.

The text reads:
Join us to explore the feminist imagination in therapy
Saturday 11th October 10am-5pm
Islington, London

Talks from:
Dr Lola Olufemi
Micha Frazer-Carroll
We will also be joined by:
Mad Youth Organise
The Feminist Library

Build Community

Great speakers

Explore and dream together

Tickets going fast

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Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · 15d

One week left to apply for our introductory course, Perspectives in Feminist Therapy. This online course will run on Wednesday evenings (UK time) and is a great way to broaden your understanding of feminist therapies.

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Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · 17d

Mad Youth Organise will be sharing their Mad Youth Manifesto. And The Feminist Library will have a stand where you can talk to them about their work and activism while you stock up on feminist books.

Tickets and full event details via bio - we can't wait to see you there!
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Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · 17d

We're excited to announce that - alongside our amazing speakers - we will also be joined by Mad Youth Organise from @justtreatment.org and the Feminist Library at The Feminist Imagination in Therapy on Saturday 11th October.

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Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · 19d

This is the latest in our online community conversation series for therapists.

The next two conversations will be:

Dual Relationships: navigating showing up in community alongside clients, 21 October

Reclaiming a Feminist Therapeutics, 27 November.

Sign up to all of them via our bio.

Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · 19d

Join us at 4pm this Friday for our next peer-led Community Conversation: sharing ideas, experiences and concerns in how we undertake solidarity work in caring for trans and non-binary folks.
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A flyer image with black text on a green and white background. Text reads:
Community Conversations are an online, peer-led space to share experiences, struggles, dilemmas and think collectively on a themed topic.
Our next conversation is
Taking Care of Trans Folks:
responsibilities and allyship
Friday 26th September 4 - 5.15pm

A conversation for all bodies and genders, in light of the Supreme Court ruling and greater public targeting of trans and non-binary folks, let’s share ideas, experiences and concerns in how we undertake solidarity work in caring for trans and non-binary folks.

Booking link in bio

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Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · 23d

Rebecca Esho Greenslade's chapter in the book 'Creative Disruption: Psychosocial Scholarship As Praxis' draws on Sara Ahmed’s figure of the feminist killjoy, to examine the urgencies and challenges of killjoy work within clinical practice. Email [email protected] for a copy!

Excerpt from the chapter The Clinician as Killjoy (Without Killing Joy) by Rebecca Esho Greenslade:

I am interested in what a feminist therapeutics needs to do to actualise its radical potential. I am interested in returning to feminist therapy’s past in order to re-imagine a feminist therapy for the present. Lola Olufemi “calls for a feminism that is expansive, that builds from relations of care and that recognizes that feminist work is justice work” (Ahmed, 2023, p. 284). I am interested in feminist therapy’s part in this work, in how our training and experiences as both therapists and feminists can support re-imagining structures of care and ways of being in relationship with each other. This may mean transgressing and subverting some of the therapeutic orthodoxies we have been trained in. This will mean killjoy work.

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Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · Sep 11

Our in-person event, The Feminist Imagination in Therapy, is one month today on the 11th October with Lola Olufemi and Micha Frazer -Carroll!
A space to explore bridging the personal and political in therapy together.
If you haven't got your ticket yet, now is the time...

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Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · Sep 1

Start of September - a new season; a new term for some of us. If you are looking for ways to connect with other therapists/ feminists this autmumn, have a look at our upcoming events and gatherings! Full details via bio
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A text-heavy flyer. The heading reads 'Coming up this autumn!' and is followed by:

Online reading group
Subversive Dialogues: theory in feminist therapy. Begins September 19th

Community conversations – online and peer-led:
Taking Care of Trans Folks: responsibilities and allyship, 26th Sept 4pm
Dual Relationships 21st October 6pm
Reclaiming a Feminist Therapeutics, 27th November 7pm

The Feminist Imagination in Therapy
In-person all day event on Saturday 11th October

Writing As Coalition Building: a feminist writing group for clinicians
Monthly online group on the second Sunday of the month, 2-4pm UK time, starting in November 2025.

Perspectives in Feminist Therapy 25 hour introductory online course beginning November. Applications open.

Black Feminism and Womanism: therapeutic perspectives
Next course running in Spring 2026. Opening for applications in autumn

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Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · Aug 26

The Feminist Imagination in Therapy is an in-person, one-day event for anyone who would like to think about ways of bridging the political and personal in therapy. Join us for a day of discussion and imagination! Ticket link in bio.
#Feminism
#TherapistSky
#TherapistsConnect

A flyer for The Feminist Imagination in Therapy.

Text reads:
An event for therapists trying to bridge the personal and political – a day of figuring it out together.
Saturday October 11th 2025
10am – 5pm
Islington, London
Hot lunch included
7-hour CPD certification

There are photographs of Dr Lola Olufemi and Micha Frazer-Carroll with more text next the the photographs:

Presentations and provocations from:
Dr. Lola Olufemi (Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power; Experiments in Imagining Otherwise)
Micha Frazer-Carroll (Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health)

With time for discussion, and exploring questions through reflective dialogue / art-making practices.
Come and join us in imagining how else we might practice -
the personal is still political!

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Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · Aug 19

Interested in finding out more about feminist therapy? Join our upcoming reading group to read and discuss Laura S. Brown's 'Subversive Dialogues'
- starts Sept 19th; third Friday of the month
- 3.30-5pm UK time, online
- open to all therapists and trainees

#FeministTherapy
#TherapistSky

Image of the front cover of Subversive Dialogues, Theory in Feminist Therapy by Laura S. Brown.

Text next to the image reads:
Interested in learning about feminist therapy? Join us to read and discuss this seminal text which addresses issues such as the power of the therapist, assessment and diagnosis, feminist ethics, and diversity practice.

Online
Third Friday of the month - starts September 19th
3.30pm - 5pm (UK time)
Link to book/ find out more
in bio

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Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · Aug 14

Applications are now open for our Perspectives in Feminist Therapy course which runs online over ten sessions Nov - Feb

Full details and application in bio

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#TherapistsConnect
#FeministTherapy

Green and white text based flyer which reads:
perspectives in feminist therapy
A ten-session course starting in November
25 hours of CPD

Join us to learn more about feminist therapies, the relation between feminist therapy and social justice work, feminist therapy ethics and values and considerations for a contemporary feminist therapeutics.

This course includes discussing writings from the broad spectrum of feminist scholarship and activism, including Black feminism, radical feminism, socialist feminism, eco-feminism, trans-feminism and politics of spirit feminism.

Applications close 1st October. Details via bio.

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Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · Aug 7

We collate and share these resources with deep gratitude to the featured writers and speakers and to everyone who has contributed to the building of these lists.

Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · Aug 7

We continue to collate and build ongoing lists of feminist and feminist therapy resources including recommended books, videos and podcasts. Existing topic lists include: Trans Inclusionary feminism; Abolition feminism; feminism and Palestine

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Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · Aug 7

We have just added a new resource list to our website!
This list on Black Feminisms has been curated by Black Feminism and Womanism: therapeutic perspectives course tutor Claudia Coussins - take a look at the resources section on our wesbite
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Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · Jul 31

Our July newsletter landed in inboxes last week. If you haven't subscribed yet you can read it online using the link in our bio.
We'll take a break from sending out a newsletter in August while we prepare for a busy autumn so make sure you take a look if you're interested in what we have coming up.

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Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · Jul 24

Our next reading group begins in September!
Meeting monthly for 3 months from Sept-Nov we will read and discuss the seminal Feminist Therapy text Subversive Dialogues: Theory in Feminist Therapy by Laura S. Brown.

#TherapistSky
#CounsellorsTogether
#FeministTherapy

An image showing the front cover of the book 'Subversive Dialogues' by Laura S. Brown. The accompanying text reads: New monthly reading group starting in September.

Join us to read and discuss this seminal text in feminist therapy, addressing issues such as the power of the therapist, assessment and diagnosis, feminist ethics, and diversity practice.

Online
Third Friday of the month - starts September 19th
3.30pm - 5pm (UK time)
Link to book/ find out more
in bio

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Good Enough @good-enough.bsky.social · Jul 24

A global moral injury.

Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Jul 24

There isn’t anything else to say. What is happening in Gaza is a collective shame. And some people could act, they have the power to act, and they are doing nothing, except meaningless platitudes. We are 72 hours or 48 hours or 24 hours or 12 hours from this being irreversible and: nothing.

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Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · Jul 14

We're so excited about our upcoming event and the chance to
dream and disrupt together.
Check the link in our bio for more info and to book your ticket.

#TherapistSky
#liberationpsychology
#politicalimagination

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Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · Jul 8

Would you like to hone your writing by joining a writing group for clinicians exploring links between feminisms and therapeutic practice?
All forms of writing and experience welcomed - see the link or email us for details and to register interest

#TherapistSky
#FeministTherapy

An image with a light green background, text, and an image of calligraphy, a typewriter and lined paper. Text reads:

We are looking to start a regular writing group in the autumn. The group will meet online once a month for two hours.

We will use prompts, discussions, and feedback in order to develop our writing. This blog pieces, online articles, translating a master’s thesis into an academic publication, or writing a book chapter or book. Open to anyone writing on the relationship between feminisms and psychotherapeutic practice - no experience required.

Exact times and dates will depend on the group. Please check the link in the bio for more information, and email us to register your interest and availability.

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Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · Jun 26

Rebecca from the FTN will be speaking at this event on Saturday - we're looking forward to it and hope to see some of you there!
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survivingwork.bsky.social @survivingwork.bsky.social · Jun 16

National Counsellors Day 28 June. From wage theft to food banks - confronting therapist exploitation. Book you virtual ticket here onlinevents.co.uk/event/audaci...

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Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · Jun 9

We are very excited to announce our upcoming event The Feminist Imagination in Therapy, taking place in London in October.

Join us for a day of provocations, discussions and dreaming together. Full details and booking link in bio

#TherapistsConnect
#TherapistSky
#FeministTherapy

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Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · Jun 6

Thank you for your words @hattieo.bsky.social

And if anyone reading this
would like to write a blog exploring any aspect of feminist thought and therapy please get in touch!

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Feminist Therapy Network @feministtherapynet.bsky.social · Jun 6

New blog from @hattieo.bsky.social exploring her experiences of feminism and therapy and what congruence means when working in a patriarchal setting:

feministtherapynetwork.org/feminism-and...

Feminism and Talking Therapies – Feminist Therapy Network

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