This blog is by a lightly-edited version of a presentation given by Rebecca Esho Greenslade at National Counsellor’s Day: Audacious Solidarity: Courage, Community & Workplace Justice for Therapists, on June 28th 2025 Acknowledgements: What is the Feminist Therapy Network? We are a community for therapeutic practitioners interested in feminist perspectives and practice within the psy-disciplines. … Read more
Growing up in Turkey in the 1960s with more than a few ethics and dogmas imposed on women; and as a young woman at the time, I constantly felt repressed and stifled. I had been trying to figure out why… During the ebbs and flows in my struggle to find a way through, I concluded that I was born and brought up in the wrong place. It was a matter of ‘in the wrong place at the wrong time’, as I was surrounded by a deeply misogynist and patriarchal culture.
Psychotherapist and researcher Claudia Coussins (she/her) reflects on her relationship to Black feminism, womanism and therapy and on the FTN’s upcoming course which she is curating and facilitating, starting on May 6th 2025. The more I immerse myself in Black feminist and womanist literature and ideas, the more I become aware of its absence in … Read more
To celebrate Pride Month, we are reposting LV Penman’s reflection on the value of knowing our queer histories. Their original post can be found here. As it’s currently LGBT+ History Month, I want to reflect on the value of knowing our queer history. I believe that knowing more about our history as queer people can … Read more
In her introduction to Living a Feminist Life (2017) Sara Ahmed poses a question: what do you hear when you hear the word feminism? It’s not an easy question to answer, at least not for me. But feminism is not an easy practice. This question returns me to my childhood and nascent feelings of dis-ease that … Read more
This final response to the UKCP was posted on TACTT’s website on January 24th 2024. Reposted with permission. On 2nd November 2023, UKCP published “guidance regarding gender critical views” for their members. We were very concerned by this guidance and wrote an open letter detailing our concerns which has been signed by over 1,000 therapists, trainees … Read more
This brief introduction to consciousness-raising is an edited extract from Rebecca Esho Greenslade’s forthcoming article “Truth-Speaking And Consciousness-Raising: Parrhesia And Feminist Psychotherapy”. The first requirement for raising class consciousness is honesty, in private and in public, with ourselves and other women. – Red Stockings Manifesto The development of consciousness-raising groups within the women’s liberation movement … Read more
This follow up letter to the UKCP was posted on TACTT’s website on December 13th 2023. Reposted with permission. The UKCP have now issued a response, which you can read on their website. TACTT will reply to this and we will also make that reply available here. It is now one month since TACTT published … Read more
On 13th November 2023, Therapists Against Conversion Therapy and Transphobia (TACTT) sent an open letter to the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) in response to the UKCP’s recent statement on gender critical views. With permissison, the FTN is reposting the full letter below as it appears on TACTT’s website – please read, sign and share. … Read more
A response to the Society of Existential Analysis (SEA) conference 2022 after leading a trans-supportive forum Trans people have been dehumanized, reduced to a talking point or conceptual problem: an ‘issue’ to be discussed and debated endlessly. It turns out that when the media want to talk about trans issues, it means they want to … Read more