Socialization-Based Essentials for Therapists Beta

Join the Socialization-Based Essentials for Therapists by (Date) and get (Bonus)

Your therapeutic education taught you so many valuable things.

But the one thing it may not have taught you was the massive impact that socialization-specifically gender-based socialization – has on your clients’ brains.

Because nature, nurture, and personal experiences aren’t the only thing that shape our internal worlds – and how they interact with the external one around us.

The way that society teaches us to think about ourselves because of who we are has a huge impact on our minds as well.

“I feel different, lighter.”

I know I have options in how I think,  and even with difficult thoughts that I’m still picking apart. Because I’ve had changes happen already, there’s this whiff of possibility in the air. I had been diagnosed with severe anxiety a few years ago but it feels much more manageable now.

—Jenni

You can’t truly help your clients empower themselves unless you understand what is making them feel disempowered.

And when it comes to women, it’s not just evolutionary biology or cognitive psychology or their family histories at play.

It’s what they believe they are allowed.

It’s what they believe they can accomplish.

It’s what they believe they are worth.

It’s not just who they believe they are – it’s who society taught them to be.

Almost every woman in the world grows up in a patriarchal society.

Almost every woman in the world grows up in a white supremacist society, or a society impacted by white supremacism exported by “first world” countries.

Almost every woman in the world grows up exposed to sizeism, ableism, and a host of other intersecting structures of oppression and marginalization.

These powerful cultural narratives shape our brains from infancy on.

This is especially challenging because as a human in society, you have also received all of this same socialization! So you’re swimming around in the same pool.

So when you try to help a woman with therapeutic tools that don’t take this deeply into account?

You’re bringing a butter knife to a sword fight.

And if you’re coaching a woman of color, or a fat woman, or a woman living with a disability, or an LGBTQ+ woman, or a woman who lives across more than two marginalized identities?

And you don’t understand the history, theory, and impacts of the social forces that have shaped their experiences, minds and lives?

You’re doing them a disservice. And you’re doing yourself one too.

Because matter how many intersecting identities you live in or forms of marginalization you’ve experienced, there are others you don’t know about first-hand. This certification will teach you about your blind spots, and will deepen your experience of yourself as a multi-faceted therapist and human being as well.

This isn’t a luxury, or a bonus

It’s a necessity.

“I feel different, lighter.”

I know I have options in how I think,  and even with difficult thoughts that I’m still picking apart. Because I’ve had changes happen already, there’s this whiff of possibility in the air. I had been diagnosed with severe anxiety a few years ago but it feels much more manageable now.

—Jenni

Unfortunately, this socialization-based perspective isn’t included in therapeutic education.

Even if you went to a great school.

And while practice brings you lots of experience and insight, it won’t ever fill a gap in conceptual and theoretical understanding.

Even if you’ve been practicing a long time.

Which means that your practice is likely missing a key frame for understanding and supporting your women clients.

Even if you’re a feminist yourself.

The bottom line is that regardless of your education, experience, or personal affinities…

If you haven’t been trained in the theory and practice of feminist-specific mental health, you’re probably still missing a key part of the picture when it comes to understanding why your women clients struggle with so many similar thought patterns.

Which means you’re missing crucial knowledge that would make it easier to help them shift those thought patterns, faster, with less distress, and with less self-blame.

What you need is a holistic social, political, historical, and intellectual lens on women’s minds, personal change, and social progress.

And you can’t truly understand what is happening in women’s brains and how to help them change their lives without it.

“What I loved most about [this work] is that I was seen.”

What I loved most about [this work] is that I was seen. As a woman that belongs to a number of marginalized groups it was amazing to see myself reflected back in this curriculum and have acknowledgement of my experience in the world! If you are thinking about enrolling the only question should be when. And I suggest that the answer should be as soon as possible!

—Sonia Wright

Whether you consider yourself a feminist through and through...

Or the word ‘feminist’ conjures up images of burning bras and hating men…

Actually doesn’t matter.

(I know, not what you expected me to say!)

Because if your clients have absorbed social messaging about women, then their brains have been impacted by it. Full stop.

And that means if you want to help them effectively, then you have to understand these impacts so you can help undo them.

And strangely, whether you identify as a feminist or not doesn’t have anything to do with having this skill set.

Because even understanding political theory doesn’t mean you know how to apply it to create a consensual, collaborative, and transformative therapeutic container that helps your clients rewire their brains at the deepest level.

“I never thought of myself as a feminist. This course is more than that label.”

I never thought of my self as a feminist. This course is more than that label. It is about being a powerful woman on earth and understanding all the ways society has set up systems to remove women’s power and all the ways we can support ourselves and our clients to reclaim and cultivate and magnify ouor power and use it for good. So whether you actively think about yourself as a feminist or not, do not let that stop you from signing up. If you read the description and you know your soul is in the right place, do it. You will learn so much more than you can imagine right now.

—Maggie Reyes

And this is the only place to learn it.

BECAUSE THE REVOLUTION STARTS WITHIN.

Once you have completed Socialization-Based Essentials for Therapists, you will:

Understand the social, historical, and ideological forces that shape the way that women think about themselves and the world.
Have mastery of the impacts of women’s socialization in areas like body image, sex, eating + exercise, social relationships, family + parenting, romantic relationships + dating, money, work, self-confidence and self-care.
Know how to approach your practice from a collaborative, consent-based perspective that maximizes your clients’ agency and empowerment.
Develop capacity to expand your own approach in deeper and more feminist-informed directions.

When this program was taught as an advanced certification for coaches, it was a $15,000 investment.

We are offering this self-study beta version of the course to a very limited group of therapist program testers for $1,499. (No, that’s not a typo!)

In exchange for access to this pricing, you must be willing to provide detailed feedback on the materials through weekly surveys. Proof of therapeutic license will be required, whether or not you are currently offering therapy.

Closing your brain gap changes… just about everything.

And our Society members are living proof.

Here’s just a taste of the shifts you can create:

(Backed up with real stories from our members.)

You show up at work as your competent, confident, bad-ass self.

You can produce great results, take risks, and handle it when things don’t go as planned. You know your worth, you advocate for it, and you knock your role out of the park. And when you go home at night, your work brain turns off just like your office light.

I WAS PRETTY MUCH AT BREAKING POINT WITH MY ANXIETY WHEN I JOINED.

Now I’m not and I didn’t even have to quit my job to do it which seems like a miracle from where I was last year. I don’t live every waking minute terrified about what my boss is thinking and I’m actually okay with him thinking negative thoughts about me.

– Anne

I’m Kara Loewentheil, the creator of The School of New Feminist Thought, host of the internationally top-ranked podcast UnF*ck Your Brain, and the author of the New York Times-bestseller “Take Back Your Brain: How Sexist Thinking Traps You – and How to Break Free” (Penguin 2024).

After graduating from Yale University, I worked as a media writer for Planned Parenthood before enrolling in Harvard Law School, where I was the President of the Board of Directors of the national organization Law Students for Reproductive Justice. I clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and then litigated at the Center for Reproductive Rights. After that I held academic fellowships at Yale and Columbia, before leaving the law to become a coach. I pioneered feminist life coaching, and now more than fifteen thousand women have participated in my flagship program, The Feminist Self-Help Society.

After years of having therapists join my programs and tell me how much they learned that was missing from their education and clinical training, I decided it was time to reach therapists directly. From 2021-2023 I ran a successful advanced certification in feminist coaching for other coaches, and now my goal is to expand this program to include other mental health professionals. Because coaching and therapy were both created mostly by straight white Christian men. And it’s time the rest of us had a say.

Here is how the program works:

Advanced Feminist Coaching Curriculum: You will learn from Kara’s in-depth feminist coaching curriculum. No one else is teaching this work at this level anywhere else in the world. She literally wrote the textbook!
Weekly calls with Kara: (day and time)
Coaching Observation: You will learn from your peers and small group coaches by giving and receiving peer feedback, and receiving weekly feedback from your certified feminist coach instructor.
Certification Project: You will complete a certification project. The idea and the final project will be reviewed and you will be given feedback.
Weekly Calls with Certified Feminist Coach Instructors: Calls with your certified feminist coach instructor will take place on a weekly basis beginning the week of January 8, 2024. You will be placed in a small group based on your availability.
Written Coaching (optional): You will have the option to practice written coaching by answering commonly asked questions in our Clutch Ask the Coaches feature.

ACFC Content Modules

Compassionate Self-Inquiry

Feminist Practice Principles

Intersectional Feminist Theory

Intersectional Integration and Self- Reflection

Work and Professional Life

Money

Body Image

Health, Food, and Movement

Friendship and Social Relationships

Dating and Romantic Relationships

Sex

Family, Parenting, and Household

Religion

Aging

Relationship with self, Confidence, and Self-Improvement

Social Justice

Investment: $1497

(You can pay in full or in three monthly installments of $499)

Feminism started as a social movement. But movements are created, organized, and executed by human beings with human minds.

WE CAN’T BUILD A NEW WORLD UNTIL WE CAN DREAM IT.

And we can’t dream it until our minds are free.

Your job as a therapist is to help your clients free their minds.

And to do that, you have to educate and free your own.

All the rest will follow.

“The most valuable part of ACFC was learning about why we think the way we think.”

The most valuable part of ACFC was learning about why we think the way we think. The effects of living in a world with patriarchal and white supremacist views. I finally have the words and explanations for what I’ve been experiencing and witnessing. It all makes sense now.

—Brig Johson

"The most valuable part of ACFC was learning about why we think the way we think. "

The effects of living in a world with patriarchal and white supremacist views. I finally have the words and explanations for what I’ve been experiencing and witnessing. It all makes sense now.

-Brig Johnson

“I feel different, lighter.”

I know I have options in how I think,  and even with difficult thoughts that I’m still picking apart. Because I’ve had changes happen already, there’s this whiff of possibility in the air. I had been diagnosed with severe anxiety a few years ago but it feels much more manageable now.

Socialization-Based Essentials for Therapists Beta

Join the Socialization-Based Essentials for Therapists by (Date) and get (Bonus)

Your therapeutic education taught you so many valuable things.

But the one thing it may not have taught you was the massive impact that socialization-specifically gender-based socialization – has on your clients’ brains.

Because nature, nurture, and personal experiences aren’t the only thing that shape our internal worlds – and how they interact with the external one around us.

The way that society teaches us to think about ourselves because of who we are has a huge impact on our minds as well.

“I feel different, lighter.”

I know I have options in how I think, and even with difficult thoughts that I’m still picking apart. Because I’ve had changes happen already, there’s this whiff of possibility in the air. I had been diagnosed with severe anxiety a few years ago but it feels much more manageable now.

—Jenni

You can’t truly help your clients empower themselves unless you understand what is making them feel disempowered.

It’s what they believe they are allowed.

It’s what they believe they are worth.

It’s not just who they believe they are – it’s who society taught them to be.

Almost every woman in the world grows up in a patriarchal society.

Almost every woman in the world grows up in a white supremacist society, or a society impacted by white supremacism exported by “first world” countries.

Almost every woman in the world grows up exposed to sizeism, ableism, and a host of other intersecting structures of oppression and marginalization.

These powerful cultural narratives shape our brains from infancy on.

This is especially challenging because as a human in society, you have also received all of this same socialization! So you’re swimming around in the same pool.

So when you try to help a woman with therapeutic tools that don’t take this deeply into account?

You’re bringing a butter knife to a sword fight.

And if you’re coaching a woman of color, or a fat woman, or a woman living with a disability, or an LGBTQ+ woman, or a woman who lives across more than two marginalized identities?

You’re doing them a disservice. And you’re doing yourself one too.

This isn’t a luxury, or a bonus

It’s a necessity.

“I feel different, lighter.”

I know I have options in how I think, and even with difficult thoughts that I’m still picking apart. Because I’ve had changes happen already, there’s this whiff of possibility in the air. I had been diagnosed with severe anxiety a few years ago but it feels much more manageable now.

—Jenni

Unfortunately, this socialization-based perspective isn’t included in therapeutic education.

And while practice brings you lots of experience and insight, it won’t ever fill a gap in conceptual and theoretical understanding.

Which means that your practice is likely missing a key frame for understanding and supporting your women clients.

Even if you’re a feminist yourself.

The bottom line is that regardless of your education, experience, or personal affinities…

If you haven’t been trained in the theory and practice of feminist-specific mental health, you’re probably still missing a key part of the picture when it comes to understanding why your women clients struggle with so many similar thought patterns.

Which means you’re missing crucial knowledge that would make it easier to help them shift those thought patterns, faster, with less distress, and with less self-blame.

“What I loved most about [this work] is that I was seen.”

—Sonia Wright

Whether you consider yourself a feminist through and through...

Or the word ‘feminist’ conjures up images of burning bras and hating men…

Actually doesn’t matter.

(I know, not what you expected me to say!)

Because if your clients have absorbed social messaging about women, then their brains have been impacted by it. Full stop.

And that means if you want to help them effectively, then you have to understand these impacts so you can help undo them.

And strangely, whether you identify as a feminist or not doesn’t have anything to do with having this skill set.

Because even understanding political theory doesn’t mean you know how to apply it to create a consensual, collaborative, and transformative therapeutic container that helps your clients rewire their brains at the deepest level.

“I never thought of myself as a feminist. This course is more than that label.”

—Maggie Reyes

And this is the only place to learn it.

BECAUSE THE REVOLUTION STARTS WITHIN.

Closing your brain gap changes… just about everything.

And our Society members are living proof.

Here’s just a taste of the shifts you can create:

(Backed up with real stories from our members.)

You show up at work as your competent, confident, bad-ass self.

– Anne

Here is how the program works:

ACFC Content Modules

Investment: $1497

(You can pay in full or in three monthly installments of $499)

Feminism started as a social movement. But movements are created, organized, and executed by human beings with human minds.

And we can’t dream it until our minds are free.

And to do that, you have to educate and free your own.

“The most valuable part of ACFC was learning about why we think the way we think.”

The most valuable part of ACFC was learning about why we think the way we think. The effects of living in a world with patriarchal and white supremacist views. I finally have the words and explanations for what I’ve been experiencing and witnessing. It all makes sense now.

—Brig Johson

“I feel different, lighter.”

I know I have options in how I think, and even with difficult thoughts that I’m still picking apart. Because I’ve had changes happen already, there’s this whiff of possibility in the air. I had been diagnosed with severe anxiety a few years ago but it feels much more manageable now.

—Jenni

I know I have options in how I think,  and even with difficult thoughts that I’m still picking apart. Because I’ve had changes happen already, there’s this whiff of possibility in the air. I had been diagnosed with severe anxiety a few years ago but it feels much more manageable now.

I know I have options in how I think,  and even with difficult thoughts that I’m still picking apart. Because I’ve had changes happen already, there’s this whiff of possibility in the air. I had been diagnosed with severe anxiety a few years ago but it feels much more manageable now.

I know I have options in how I think,  and even with difficult thoughts that I’m still picking apart. Because I’ve had changes happen already, there’s this whiff of possibility in the air. I had been diagnosed with severe anxiety a few years ago but it feels much more manageable now.