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What is feminist therapy?

Feminist therapy is a type of psychotherapy specializing in gender and examining the stressors that women experience due to biases, discrimination, and other areas that may affect one’s mental health.
Feminism is a broad church and the online discourse around it is so frequently dominated by conflict between different schools of feminism that it can be difficult to pinpoint what it’s all about. In ...
Historically, feminism didn’t even mean what we call it today. Feminism was coined by philosopher, Charles Fourier in 1837 and it meant a person with feminine qualities. It was later linked to the ...
Protesters dressed as handmaids from 'The Handmaid's Tale' march from Parliament Square to Iran's embassy on March 8, 2024 in London, England. Feminism is perhaps one of the most misunderstood ...
Feminism enjoys nearly universal acceptance across today’s political and intellectual landscape. To declare oneself antifeminist in 2026 is often enough to be labeled as indifferent to women’s dignity ...
Sharon Crozier-De Rosa receives funding from the Australian Research Council. In Western countries, feminist history is generally packaged as a story of “waves”. The so-called first wave lasted from ...
I am often asked by young women if we should take back the term “feminism.” It still carries the cachet of caring about women, and most of us are quite happy with the achievements of first-wave ...