We can’t separate all the pieces of who we are.

Intersectional feminism is born from the fierce assertion of BIPOC women (Kimberlé Crenshaw, Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Gloria Anzaldúa, Angela Davis to name a few) that White feminism was never a feminism that spoke for all women. It didn’t include other marginalised identities, namely the impact of systemic racism, homophobia, classism, or ableism.

The gift that intersectional feminism gives us is the permission to be all of what we are in relation to systems of power and privilege, which shape the way we move through the world – our town, our side of town, our street, our casual, familial, and intimate relationships.

The doctor’s office.

Is our physical pain validated and sent through for an immediate referral, or do we have to twist ourselves in knots in order to be heard and believed?

I’m rooted in meeting clients through this lens to understand and make sense of how your layers of identity, marginalisation, and privilege represent themselves.

How do they affect your well-being, dreams, and relationships?

Which identities hold double-edged swords?

And which come into conflict with people you care deeply about?

I hold all of these questions with care.

Working from an anti-oppressive stance means that I am committed to ongoing self-reflection about how my social locations may interact with yours during our sessions. The aim is to wedge into the power imbalance in the therapy relationship. You get to be the expert of your experiences, and in active dialogue with the ways you perceive me to hold privilege or marginalisation as well. The conversation is open as to how power and privilege show up in our relationship, in the feelings felt, and the ideas shared.