Our Mission
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, disability, size, and access to resources constitute one's mind/body. This perspective, then, transforms clinical practice. With this understanding, we are committed to building a strong community of learners, thinkers and doers who are empowered by a psychologically informed social justice lens.
About Us
Established in 1981, WTCI offers innovative clinical training based on contemporary relational theory and intersectional feminist thought. Through education and a commitment to social activism, WTCI holds a unique place at the nexus of the psychotherapy community, feminist movements, and the public at large. At our core, we are a feminist relational psychotherapy training institute, offering a two-year postgraduate training program and many other educational opportunities to practitioners and the public.
Our Programs
WTCI provides a special environment for critical thinking, consciousness-raising, evolving relationships, and a vibrant community committed to a mission of social change greater than any one of us.
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING PROGRAM
Our unique psychotherapy two-year postgraduate training program seeks to amplify an intersectional feminist voice in the evolving dialogue of contemporary relational theory. The next program, The Embodied Psyche, begins September 2022.
PRACTItiONER workshops
WTCI offers workshops by clinicians, for clinicians. New York State licensed practitioners can gain CEUs.
ANNUAL EVENTS
Each year, WTCI hosts two events: INDWELLING and the Laurie Phillips Memorial Lecture.
EVENTS FOR THE PUBLIC
WTCI offers events for the public — including those who may not be practitioners — providing the opportunity for our community to connect with the mission of WTCI.
Board of Directors
Eve Blatt, LCSW-R ~ Carol Bloom, LCSW ~ Luise Eichenbaum, LCSW ~ Andrea Gitter, MA, LCAT, BC-DMT ~ Leah Kramnick, LCSW ~ Rebecca Stern, LCSW ~ Lela Zaphiropoulos, LCSW, ACSW
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Connect and Change
Connect and Change is a social action project that provides pro-bono psychotherapy for women who have experienced intimate partner violence. It was founded in 2004 in an effort to reach out to underserved women of all races, ethnicities, and sexual orientations who have experienced domestic violence. Its founders are graduates of WTCI.
Endangered Bodies
Endangered Bodies is an international local-global initiative, launched by the international Endangered Species summits in March 2011. There is a growing movement of girls, women and men who reject the horrors of body uniformity and cherish instead the variety of body shapes, sizes, colours, ages of us all. Endangered Bodies is determined to change the visual landscape so it reflects all of us from New York to Nairobi, from Shanghai to Lima, from Delhi to Bangkok, from London to Tehran, from everywhere you are to everywhere we are.