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When women first acquired the right to vote, those laws intentionally didn't include ALL women. It was the work of diligent activism led by passionate leaders that fought for the right to vote for BIPOC people to vote. Today, the votes of BIPOC are disenfranchised through the use of voter ID laws, voter roll purges, reduced early voting, and more. The voting process continues to be a battleground for equality. Here are short snippets of the stories from women who championed voter rights for BIPOC throughout history.

For more information or to sign up for this workshop, visit our ticket link: https://buytickets.at/wtci1/1352426

But act fast! This workshop sold out last time it was held.

Workshop Description:

Aging and the aging body are universal experiences that impact us both personally and in our clinical work. People as they age often respond with disbelief seeing their reflection in the mirror and are taken aback with the difference between how they feel on the inside and how they appear on the outside.

This didactic and experiential workshop illuminates the numerous and necessary tensions we hold, (ex. fight versus to accept, dependence versus interdependence, etc.), while navigating our individual aging processes. We explore the multiple dialectics of aging, and look deeply at issues of accepting, challenging, and honoring diverse narratives and lived experiences of aging.

We see/interpret aging and aging bodies against the backdrop of social and cultural constructs, economic inequities, and marginalization. From this broader perspective we open the door to more expansive thinking that can engender curiosity instead of dread in both us and our clients. Further, we elucidate some of the countertransference challenges that may emerge in our clinical work.

We are delighted to share that WTCI has been invited to be included in the Barnard College Archive! With Barnard’s support, WTCI will live in perpetuity where our work can be studied and hopefully inspire projects based on our archive.

Starting 2021, we began to collect, then sort and categorize the material: brochures, events, curriculums, newspaper articles, photos, public projects, lectures, and letters. We had tears of appreciation and awe at the rich and smart body of work.

We will be posting more of our WTCI archives in the coming weeks and months on our social media page. We are so excited to share some excerpts with you all!

Slide 2: Flyer from a 2003 talk given by WTCI co-founder Susie Orbach.

Slide 3: Publicity print out for book Eating Problems. Released in 1994, Eating Problems was written by foremost members of WTCI, Lela Zaphiropoulos, Andrea Gitter, Susan Gutwill, Laura Kogel and Carol Bloom

Slide 4: Lecture flyer featuring a promotion for the 2003 Laurie Phillips Memorial Lecture with speaker Deborah Lupenitz, PhD, as well as the Spring Lecture featuring Nancy Hollander and Susan Gutwill.

🧠✨ Celebrating BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month ✨🧠

Practitioners, it's essential to raise awareness and advocate for the mental well-being of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. An intersectional approach to therapy is critical in addressing the unique challenges faced by BIPOC communities. By understanding and integrating the diverse aspects of identity and experience, we can provide more effective, compassionate, and equitable care.

Together, we can break down barriers, fight stigma, and create a supportive therapeutic environment for all.

Announcing an upcoming July WTCI Workshop!

Engaging Aging: Clinical Considerations
Mon Jul 22, 2024 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT Online, Zoom
This workshop is for qualifying practitioners*

Ticket link here:
https://buytickets.at/wtci1/1306043

Workshop Description:

Aging and the aging body are universal experiences that impact us both personally and in our clinical work. People as they age often respond with disbelief seeing their reflection in the mirror and are taken aback with the difference between how they feel on the inside and how they appear on the outside.

This didactic and experiential workshop illuminates the numerous and necessary tensions we hold, (ex. fight versus to accept, dependence versus interdependence, etc.), while navigating our individual aging processes. We explore the multiple dialectics of aging, and look deeply at issues of accepting, challenging, and honoring diverse narratives and lived experiences of aging.

We see/interpret aging and aging bodies against the backdrop of social and cultural constructs, economic inequities, and marginalization. From this broader perspective we open the door to more expansive thinking that can engender curiosity instead of dread in both us and our clients. Further, we elucidate some of the countertransference challenges that may emerge in our clinical work.

Learning Objectives:

1. Demonstrate a greater understanding of social-cultural constructions/constrictions and how
they are enacted through numerous tensions related to aging and the aging body.

2. Identify the commonalities and differences between our aging bodies, our clients’ aging
bodies, our similar and diverse experiences, and the clinical and countertransferential
implications.

3. Apply new ways of thinking about and intervening with aging clients.

About the Instructors:

Lela Zaphiropoulos, psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice for over 40 years is a WTCI Board and faculty member as well as co-director emeritus of WTCI postgraduate training program. She leads didactic, experiential workshops on issues of aging. Prior to private practice she worked at Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital and St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. She completed postgraduate training at The Institute for the Study of Psychotherapy. She is co-author of Eating Problems: A Feminist, Psychoanalytic Model (1995), and of Kids, Carrots, and Candy: A Practical, Positive Approach to Raising Children Free of Food and Weight Problems (revised 2012). She is a founding member of Endangered Bodies NY, a global initiative to challenge the industries that promote body insecurity.

Debra Kram-Fernandez obtained her PhD in Social Welfare from the City University of New York Graduate Center/Hunter College School of Social Work after obtaining her LCSW-R. She also holds a MSW and MS in Dance-Movement Therapy from Hunter College. Dr. Kram-Fernandez is a graduate of WTCI’s postgraduate training program. Her areas of expertise include understanding serious mental illness, group work facilitation, and diversity in human services. She is currently an Associate Professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) Empire and has a small private practice.

Participants should be prepared to join with audio and video. This is an interactive workshop. Please contact WTCI at [email protected] if you require accommodations.

*Qualifying practitioners: WTCI has been recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for NYS licensed mental health counselors -0102 and creative arts therapists -0018, by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Workers as an approved provider of continuing education for NYS licensed social workers -0361, and by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists -0049.

From the WTCI Archive:

This is the original flyer used by Luise Eichenbaum and Susie Orbach when they founded the Women's Therapy Centre in London in 1976.

Second-wave feminism was still in its early stages, and the WTC began their pioneering work to transform the patriarchal paradigm of traditional psychoanalytic theory and practice.

Join us for our upcoming workshop this month!
Tickets and more information available at: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/wtci1/1279952

We hope to see you there!

Join WTCI as we present our upcoming virtual workshop with Dr. Judith Smith on Monday, June 24th, 2024 at 3:30-5:30pm EST.

About the Workshop:

A primer for clinicians working with the parents/mothers of adult children with serious mental illness and/or substance use disorder. Dr. Smith provides a feminist lens to understand and use clinical interventions to support older parents/mothers who are trying to balance their own needs with that of their adult children.

Adult children with serious mental illness and/or substance use disorder often return to their parents for residential, financial, and emotional support. The burden on these parents/mothers is often ignored and not understood. Many older parents/mothers search for help from therapists when they feel overwhelmed by their difficult adult children’s needs within an environment that includes a broken mental health system, no affordable housing, and limited substance use treatment

This workshop focuses on understanding the internal conflicts that parents experience when their adult children cannot fulfill their potential, be self-supporting, and/or engage in satisfying interpersonal relationships due to their mental health or substance use problems. The workshop addresses ways to help parents/mothers’ handle feelings of ambivalence, guilt and shame, hopelessness and isolation.

Secure your spot at wtci-nyc.org/events

Don't miss out! Get your tickets today to WTCI's annual Laurie Phillips Memorial Lecture. Both in-person and virtual. For both practitioners to earn CEUs and open to the public! Ticket link and flyer below.

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/wtci1/1210567

This year's Laurie Phillips Memorial Lecture with Honoree Athia N. Choudhury, PhD, "Unsettling Wellness: Towards a Praxis of Body Sovereignty" is May 10. Get your tickets today!

Buy Tickets Here – Laurie Phillips Memorial Lecture with Athia N. Choudhury, PhD. – The LGBTQ Center and Virtually via Zoom This event is hybrid, and is for both the public and practitioners*, who can earn 2.0 credit hours after completing a lecture e...

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Last chance to enroll for WTCI's Spring Seminar!
Practitioners welcome! We meet wednesday nights and will be guided by WTCI members through topics such as:

- Understand psychoanalytic theory with feminist lens as it relates to working with eating problems
- Identify how racial trauma is experienced in all bodies
- Explore psychological underpinnings of illness and pain and consider how to address in clinical work
- Demonstrate a greater understanding of the social-cultural constructions/constrictions about aging and the body.

BODY TALK: Nourishment, Embodiment, Technology, Illness, Aging WTCI's virtual Spring Seminar to deepen practitioners' understanding of bodies in the context of the personal, the public and the political.

Join WTCI for our Spring Seminar! Explore the WTCI Intersectional approach to the body with this six-week seminar for practitioners. This course offers 8.5 credit hours.

Among the topics covered:

- Understand psychoanalytic theory with feminist lens as it relates to working with eating problems
- Identify how racial trauma is experienced in all bodies
- Explore psychological underpinnings of illness and pain and consider how to address in clinical work
- Demonstrate a greater understanding of the social-cultural constructions/constrictions about aging and the body.

Ticket link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/body-talk-nourishment-embodiment-technology-illness-aging-tickets-789303938327?aff=oddtdtcreator

Learn more: https://www.wtci-nyc.org/

WTCI announces our six-week online spring seminar: BODY TALK, which begins February 28. Spaces are limited, so sign up today! Details and tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/body-talk-nourishment-embodiment-technology-illness-aging-tickets-789303938327

Help deepen and amplify the intersectional feminist voice in relational psychotherapy. Donate to WTCI this giving season. https://www.wtci-nyc.org/donate

Our November 10 workshop for practitioners with WTCI alum Amie Roe, LCSW and Edward Patzelt, PhD was a resounding success! Join us online Dec 8, 12-2pm ET for the follow-up workshop, "Group Treatment for Personality Disorders: An experiential introduction to Mentalization-Based Treatment - Group (MBT-G)." Learn more and purcahse tickets:

Group Treatment for Personality Disorders In this experiential workshop, participants will be guided through a modified Mentalization-Based Treatment - Group (MBT-G) session.

The potential for 4.0 CEUs awaits with an online two-part series with WTCI alumna, Amie Roe, LCSW, and her colleague Edward Patzelt, PhD facilitating: Mentalizing the Hard to Reach Client on Fridays 12-2pm ET, Nov. 10 and Group Treatment for Personality Disorders on Dec 8. Participants are welcome to join one or both workshops:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mentalizing-the-hard-to-reach-client-tickets-732461902267?aff=oddtdtcreator

and

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/group-treatment-for-personality-disorders-tickets-732896923427?aff=oddtdtcreator

Check out our calendar for upcoming workshops for practitioners -- qualifying NY clinicians receive certificates of participation for CEUs! https://www.wtci-nyc.org/events

Join this in-person workshp on Saturday, October 14, 2-4pm in the West Village - NYC! Brought to you by WTCI with WTCI alum Anastasia Gochnour, LCSW: "The Urge to Do More: Need, Support, and the Therapeutic Frame"! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-urge-to-do-more-need-support-and-the-therapeutic-frame-20-ceus-tickets-727733750237?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join us June 1st for "The Intersection of Grind Culture in Our Lives: Rest as Resistance, Racism, and The Quest for Selfhood" with Valerie Coleman-Palansky, LCSW, MS Ed. -- For the public and practitioners; 2.0 CEs for qualifying practitioners https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-intersection-of-grind-culture-in-our-lives-tickets-631221740217

Almost sold out! This Sunday, April 30, 10am-12pm ET - WTCI workshop for the public: "Self-Attuned Eating & Embodiment: An Intersectional Feminist Approach" with Alicia Leporati, LMHC. Ticket sales close at 6pm Saturday!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/self-attuned-eating-embodiment-an-intersectional-feminist-approach-tickets-579338385707

Ticket sales close Friday (April 14) at 4pm ET for this year's annual Laurie Phillips Memorial Lecture. Purchase your ticket today! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/internationalist-feminism-w-lara-sheehi-laurie-phillips-memorial-lecture-tickets-568693065267

Check out WTCI Co-founder Susie Orbach's piece in The Guardian -- Weight Watchers wins when our diets fail – it won’t change society’s broken thinking around food

WTCI WTCI’s mission is to deepen and amplify an intersectional feminist voice within the evolving dialogue of contemporary relational theory. Central to this endeavor is our understanding that the vicissitudes of early life, socioeconomic position, racial construct, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, disabi...

Join WTCI for this year's Laurie Phillips Memorial Lecture with Lara Sheehi, PsyD, "Internationalist Feminism: Towards An Anti-Oppressive Psychoanalytic Praxis" - April 14, 7-9pm ET, Online, 2.0 CEUs for qualifying clinicians -- https://www.eventbrite.com/e/internationalist-feminism-w-lara-sheehi-laurie-phillips-memorial-lecture-tickets-568693065267

WTCI's latest offerings for clinicians and the public are live on our Calendar page, including this year's Laurie Phillips Memorial Lecture, with more to be added soon:

Calendar — WTCI WTCI holds events for the public and practitioners, including workshops and lectures, and two annual events, INDWELLING and the Laurie Phillips Memorial Lecture.

Join Carol Bloom for a much-needed March 12 workshop: How to Listen So Patients Talk - Addressing Eating and Embodiment Issues in General Psychodynamic Treatment. Tickets are selling fast! Get yours today: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-listen-so-patients-talk-eating-embodiment-in-general-treatment-tickets-549879282737

Support WTCI this giving season: https://www.wtci-nyc.org/donate

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rewrite-your-mother-story-and-expand-your-life-tickets-355253090557

Join us for "Rewrite Your Mother-Story and Expand Your Life" with Judith Ruskay Rabinor, PhD on October 20, online! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rewrite-your-mother-story-and-expand-your-life-tickets-355253090557

I love my mother but...
Who else is loved so deeply and, conversely, blamed so intensely as one’s mother? The mother stories we carry can empower or derail us. Many of us struggle with limiting cultural myths about motherhood and old stories about our mothers that cover hidden longings. Using guided imagery, meditation, journal writing and group processing we will explore our stories and expand your life.

Rewrite Your Mother-Story and Expand Your Life Using guided imagery, meditation, journal writing and group processing we will explore our stories and expand your life.