Ethos

The Feminist Therapy Network operates from the following principles:

• Feminist understandings are not solely theoretical but are lived.
• Commitment to an intersectional feminist praxis that engages with how our differences shape our experiences, in order to foster connection and solidarity work.
• Commitment to learning about how colonial legacies continue to shape the psy-disciplines whilst also maintaining different forms of oppression, and to unlearning these legacies within our practices.
• Commitment to a feminism that is trans-inclusionary and resists trans-antagonism.
• Recognition of patriarchy’s detrimental impact upon all genders and a commitment to subverting its manifestations within therapeutic practice.
• Challenging hegemonic and adaptive therapeutic orthodoxies.
• Re-conceptualising a liberatory feminist therapeutics.
• Creative inquiry into bridging the ‘personal’ and ‘political’ within therapeutic practice.
• Collective remembering and re-imagining of radical feminist therapeutic praxes.
• Fostering cultures of solidarity and critical consciousness in order to engage with feminist therapeutic work.
• Respectful, accountable dialogue held in an ethic of love that calls each other in, not out.
• Fierce Love.