THE WOMENS THERAPY CENTRE INSTITUTE INC
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Mission Statement
THE WOMEN’S THERAPY CENTRE INSTITUTE, established in 1981, offers innovative clinical training to mental health practitioners, education to the public, and pro bono support to victims of intimate partner abuse. We understand that a person’s socioeconomic and cultural location are integral to psychic and emotional development. Continual exploration of our bodies, our psyches, and our identities in relation to complex social justice issues– such as body size, abilities, age, race and ethnicities, genders, sexualities, and class—is a key focus of our institute at every level.
About This Cause
Our unique two-year post graduate training program offers an integration of psychoanalytic, attachment, trauma, and social theories to study the spectrum of embodiment–from secure and cohesive to troubled and dissociated. Through a critical feminist lens, we analyze social hierarchies of race, class, sexual orientation, body size, gendered identities and expressions, and normative notions of health and illness. We explore the internalization of family and culture in relation to body based symptoms and body modification practices, food and eating, trauma and sexual abuse, reproduction and caregiving, aging, and the indwelling of psyche in soma. The WTCI model, individual mentoring and an experiential group enrich the clinician’s use of self, including attention to somatic countertransference and to the meeting of bodies/subjectivities in the therapeutic setting.Due to the financial realities of our increasingly insecure economic environment, many who would like to benefit from our educational programs require substantial financial assistance, which the WTCI is unable to provide. In 2004, The WTCI established a social action project called Connect and Change. Women who have experienced intimate partner abuse are provided with long-term, weekly, pro-bono psychotherapy from experienced psychotherapists. It is our belief that ongoing psychodynamic and trauma work can greatly increase women’s ability to move beyond abusive relationships, rebuild their lives, as well as having an enormous positive impact on the children of violent relationships. We continue to provide these services, and rely on private donations to support our work. We also offer programs for the public, including education on our relationship to food and living comfortably in our bodies, aging, and social justice. Our lecture series has included topics such as women and cosmetic surgery, the crisis of bullying in America's schools, and assisted reproductive technologies. In an increasingly globalized society, our role must expand and continue to help others recognize the cultural mirror and its effect on girls’ development. Your tax deductible donation will help us reach other practitioners and the public, and make a significant difference in our efforts to eradicate gendered violence targeted at people’s bodies and psyches. Your support helps us broaden and deepen our community outreach efforts through our ongoing lectures, workshops, groups, and special events.