In life, many people are unconsciously troubled or dominated by the belief that "I am not good, I am not worthy":
- No matter what you do, you always feel like you're not good enough;
- want to be close to others, but self-suppressed and afraid to perform;
- I want to do things well, but I don't take action for a long time;
- You need to be praised by others to judge whether you are good enough;
- As long as you don't do things, you will feel anxious and confused;
- When something good happens, it feels very unreal and ends up being messed up by yourself;
- Any negative feedback can crush itself;
- Self-esteem is unstable, often feeling conceited and inferior.
- ……
There are many reasons for these beliefs, one of the important reasons is: because individuals feel pain and depression because they are deprived or oppressed in a conscious or unconscious situation, they will fall into ignorance and confusion about their own power, and they cannot find their own balance point, and lose themselves, resulting in physical and mental crises of individuals, such as:
- Families with strong parents, children whose needs are often not met;
- Women in patriarchal families, or men in patriarchal families, are treated unjustly;
- In a family with many children, the eldest son/daughter who is expected to be treated harshly, or the child who is in the middle of the birth order and has a low sense of existence;
- Hard-working, down-to-earth and hard-working people in the company, but often ignored or oppressed;
- People who don't care about giving in their relationships just meet the other half who is used to enjoying/taking;
- ……
Therefore, each of us must be aware of whether we are imprisoned by "disenfranchisement or oppression."
In today's equal rights for men and women and equality for all, you don't have to be timid, afraid, or retreat, break the confinement and live your own life!
It is highly recommended for everyone to take the course Feminist Therapy, feminist therapy started with the inequality of women's status, and after years of development, today's feminist therapy is an empowering therapy that focuses more on the inequality of the universal individual due to gender, race, culture, rules/laws, etc., both men and women.
Feminist therapy helps you experience your power psychologically through a series of empowerment tools: this is my right, I should not feel guilty, ashamed, painful, or depressed for myself...... Thus helping individuals improve their self-esteem, self-fulfillment, etc.
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What is Feminist Therapy?
Empowering the individual is the great goal of feminist therapy, the core of which is to empower the individual and awaken the consciousness of the individual.
At the individual level, it is believed that there is a power in each symptom of an individual, and it is possible to understand why they feel distress and exhibit dysfunction by analyzing gender, power, social status/multiple identities.
Nowadays, psychotherapy with feminist therapy at its core is treated in a broader socio-cultural and political context, and has developed into a sophisticated, postmodern, and technically highly integrated model of practice.
Feminist therapy conceptualizes the individual's experience from the four domains of power. The four domains are: Physical/Physical, Psychological/Spiritual, Social/Interpersonal-Situational, and Spiritual/Spiritual-Existential.
Personal power in the somatic/physiological sphere
- Connected to one's own body;
- The body is experienced as a safe place;
- Accept it as it is when it is well nourished, rather than being forced to grow or smaller;
- Gain insight into the body's desire for food, sexual pleasure, and rest;
- Do not intentionally harm yourself or others, and do not habitually violate your own or others' values.
- The ability to see, hear, walk, speak, or to be able to have a strong and healthy body, free from pain and disease, is not necessary for the acquisition of bodily power;
- Have compassion for your body.
Personal power in the psychological/spiritual realm
- Knowing one's thoughts, thinking critically, and being able to change one's thinking;
- Flexible and not easily swayed by others;
- Trust intuition and be receptive to external information;
- Know what the individual is experiencing, and use these feelings as a useful source of information to help the individual understand what is happening here and now;
- Not numb, the feelings of the present reflect the present moment, not the past or future experiences;
- The ability to experience strong and intense emotions, tolerate emotions, and self-comfort and regulate in a way that does not harm oneself, that is, the physical, mental, social, or spiritual spirituality of others.
Personal power in the social/interpersonal-situational domain
- Possess more effective interpersonal communication skills and be able to influence others in the way you expect more often;
- There is no unrealistic desire to control;
- Be considerate of yourself and others;
- protect yourself;
- A clear sense of boundaries and flexible advance and retreat;
- Ability to build relationships with other individuals, groups, and larger systems;
- Ability to establish and maintain intimate relationships;
- Being close to others without losing oneself or devouring others, setting clear interpersonal boundaries for oneself without creating a sense of distance;
- Ability to make the decision to end a relationship that becomes dangerous, unpleasant, or causes too much distress to oneself;
- Ability to resolve conflicts with others when possible;
- Entering a role in life – a parent, a partner, a co-worker – is usually based on choice, will, and desire, rather than accident.
Spirituality - personal power in the realm of existence
- Have a meaning-making system that helps you cope with life's challenging things and may lead to a sense of comfort and well-being;
- Understand one's own traditions and culture and be able to integrate them into one's identity to deepen one's understanding of oneself;
- Be aware of the social context and be able to participate in it, rather than being controlled by it or unaware of its influence;
- Gain insight into the raison d'être of oneself and be able to integrate this into important aspects of daily life;
- Imaginative, creative, and reality-checking.
Giving these four models of power to the individual in feminist therapy, and describing power as a continuous, rather than all-or-nothing variable, can help the individual break out of the trance of powerlessness.
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The core strategies and techniques of feminist therapy
1. Redefine the psychological problems of visits
Feminist therapy considers mental illness to be a form of suffering that has been categorized as a diagnosis by the discipline of mental health and labeled as psychopathology. As a result, feminist therapy redefines mental illness as distress and behavioral disorders.
The feminist model argues that the root cause of most suffering is oppression internalized by the individual. The model emphasizes that in the stress/constitution paradigm, psychological, social, spiritual-spiritual-existential realm of suffering is rooted, while the physiological realm provides a formal basis for suffering.
2. Egalitarianism
Feminist counsellors work in an egalitarian manner and employ empowerment strategies that are appropriate for each client. Informed consent provides a start to equal cooperation.
By explaining the process of counseling to the client and actively engaging the client, the whole process will not seem too mysterious, and the client will become an equal participant in the consultation.
Clients will realize that they have a role in determining the direction, duration, and procedure of the consultation.
3. Self-disclosure
In order to achieve greater benefit for the client, the counsellor will use self-disclosure to balance the relationship between the client and the counsellor in order to provide the client with a role model, demonstrate shared experiences, empower the client, and obtain informed consent to the client.
4. Gender analysis
In the process of gender role intervention, the counsellor considers the client's questions in the context of society's expectations of women's roles. The aim is to help clients become aware of the impact of society on them.
When the client recognizes the messages coming out of her head and the voices behind them, she becomes alert to and coexists with the oppression she internalizes.
The visitor decides what information she wants to keep in her head, and she also keeps an open state when unwelcome information comes to her mind.
5. Power analysis
Power analysis refers to a range of methods that help clients understand how injustices in power and resources affect an individual's reality. The counsellor will work with the client to explore how institutional injustice can limit an individual's self-awareness and health.
6. Self-confidence training
By teaching and promoting individual decisive behavior, women will gain a clearer understanding of their interpersonal power, transcend the stereotypes given to them by society, change their negative beliefs, and make changes in their daily lives.
The use of this technique is unique. The process of restructuring involves freeing the client from "blaming the victim" and helping the client to look for the social and environmental variables that contribute to their own problems.
In the restructuring process, the counselor does not focus on psychological factors, but rather on assessing social and political factors.
Relabeling refers to the technique of labeling or assessing the results of an individual's behaviour.
If you want to be such a counselor who can empower your clients, then you must not miss Simple Psychology Uni's "Introduction to Feminist Therapy", which is led by the representative of feminist therapy, Laura A. Laura S. Brown Dr. Brown's first course in China will help you develop a new perspective on how to solve the client's problems.
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Founder Laura Brown: Be your own rescuer
Laura S. Brown, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at Seattle University's Washington College of Occupational Psychology and a leading figure in feminist therapy.
Brown grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, the eldest of three children in an Eastern European Jewish family.
She graduated magna laude from Case Western Reserve University with a B.A. in Psychology and went on to earn her M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
She has been working in Seattle in feminist psychotherapy, forensic psychology, and counseling since 1979.
Photo/Laura S. Brown's life photo
She was the first lesbian president of the Society for Women's Psychology (SPW) and has authored numerous publications on issues of feminist practice, including diagnosis and evaluation, feminist forensic practice, ethical and boundary issues, lesbian psychotherapy, trauma and abuse memory, and feminist therapy theory.
Empowering, compassionate, witty, ambitious, erudite...... None of these words are enough to describe the great spirit embodied by Dr. Laura S. Brown.
I have no plans to be here, in this position of my career. It's just an accidental consequence of following my passion and doing what I'm passionate about.
—Laura S. Brown
Dr. Brown has published an article in the Journal of Clinical Psychology about how he grew to be a feminist therapist.
Many people think she worked as a psychotherapist because she wanted to help others, but Dr. Brown's answer was "no."
She said:
I have indeed been able to help others on a regular basis, and I find it wonderful and amazing to be a witness to the transformation and healing of others.
But in my story, there are other, more specific reasons for this "why".
I grew up in a dysfunctional family, the eldest child and the only daughter of them.
By "inadequate" I don't mean that any of us have been sexually abused or neglected; It's not that there is an adult in the family who drinks too much or uses drugs.
My two younger brothers and I were well fed and well educated. On the surface, we are just ordinary families in our cultural and social class (middle-class Eastern European Jews).
However, I can still recall many of the misfortunes in my family. Those misfortunes developed my great interest in human behavior and led to the development of my self-capacities that allowed me to become the therapist I am today.
I have a stubborn, irritable, narcissistic father, and a depressed, often alexithymia mother. Fortunately, my parents' pain before the age of 6 was usually invisible.
But after the summer vacation of my first grade, everything changed. My mother fell into a terrible postpartum depression and was given electroshock therapy in the manner it was in 1959.
However, the mother was still depressed. Whenever I came home, I could smell the depression that permeated the house, because the miasma permeated my childhood for many years afterward.
My young father was crushed by the sudden blow and became more and more irritable and terrible in my later childhood.
Since then, I have become a "parent" to my parents. My life changed drastically, and I was determined to figure out what was going on and make everything okay.
I had to be sensitive to the delicate relationships and complex emotions around me, and slowly figure out how to calm my father's anger, how to bring my mother out of depression, and how to accompany my young brother.
Brown describes feminist therapy as a study of "how gender and power are affected by each person's intersecting identities."
She has received great honors from numerous professional organizations for her work on multicultural competence, trauma, feminist healing theory, and LGBT issues.
Photo by Laura S. Brown and her work
But Brown considers her being awarded SPW's Caroline Wood Sherriff Award in 2004 the pinnacle of her career.
She describes the honor as "the culmination of a career as a feminist psychologist," and she is the first non-academic clinical practitioner to receive the honor.
Brown said he understood an old industry saying early on: how far our visitors can go depends on how far we can go.
So out of a sense of responsibility for the client's well-being, she constantly pushes herself to heal because she feels that it is the right thing to do.
As for why do you want to become a psychotherapist? Here's what Dr. Brown said:
The answer to this question is not all of the reasons mentioned above, but not any of them.
Psychotherapists are a particularly strange profession: talking to people in pain for hours and hours, dealing with things that cannot be put into words, and making listening our job – all of which seem out of place in the cultural society of the 21st century.
The real reason why I became a psychotherapist is that I found that it was only in these relationships with my clients that I really began to understand myself and understand some of the things that were most important to me.
It is this profession that requires me to constantly grow, to think about the meaning of life, to find the ability to regain happiness in the midst of despair.
It was my practice of psychotherapy that allowed me to find my whole self and to pursue the Jewish meaning of 'healing the world' every day of my life. ”
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Advantages and highlights of this course
Highlight 1: Lectures by genre pioneers
Laura S. Dr. Laura Brown is one of the advocates and representatives of feminist therapy, she is a contemporary American psychologist, an American Psychological Association (APA) fellow, and has taught at Southern Illinois University and the University of Washington.
Her book "Feminist Therapy" is a professional compulsory book for counselors in all schools of feminist therapy, and has won the "Outstanding Publication Award" from the American Women's Association.
Simple Psychology Uni specially invited Laura M. Together with her collaborator Jennifer Hollinshead, Dr. S. Brown developed the "Introduction to Feminist Therapy: Theory, Ethics and Clinical Process" training course based on the local social conditions in China.
With a solid theoretical foundation and rich practical experience, the two mentors will teach you the essence of feminist therapy and strategies for coping with clinical dilemmas.
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Highlight 2: Theory + Technology + Ethics
Compared with classical counseling therapy, feminist therapy has certain characteristics in the counseling setting, and these special aspects require the counselor to abide by the ethical norms, which are detailed in the course.
Through 12 lectures on the course content, theory combined with technical explanations, the theory and practical application of feminist therapy are systematically explained, helping you build a "she" perspective from 0.
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Highlight 3: Abundant supporting resources
✔ Video + Chinese text + Chinese audio, all-round help you learn to understand!
Introduction to Feminist Therapy
Genre representative Laura Laura Brown personally taught six modules: theory + technology + strong application of ethics + easy to use, and systematically explained feminist therapy