Feminist Intersectional Therapy - by Joanne Jodry & Kathleen McCleskey (Paperback)

About the Book

An affordable, practical, comprehensive text for future and current counselors seeking to apply intersectional feminist theory in the therapeutic environment with diverse client populations.

Book Synopsis

An affordable, practical, comprehensive text for future and current counselors seeking to apply intersectional feminist theory in the therapeutic environment with diverse client populations.

About the Author

About the Editors
Joanne Jodry, EdD, DMH, LPC, LCADC, is a middle-aged, middle-class, cisgender, heterosexual, Buddhist, French/ Irish heritage, White female. She has identified as a feminist for most of her adult life after being exposed to it in graduate school. She is an associate professor and the program director for the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program at Monmouth University, New Jersey. She holds two terminal degrees, one focused in Counseling and one focused in Spirituality. Her research areas of interest include feminist theory and spiritual healing applications (particularly Buddhist psychology and drama therapy). For personal meaning, Joanne is passionate and involved with a nonprofit, One Life to Love, where she leads a group of higher education students every year to Delhi, India, to learn from the beautiful children who survive poverty, hunger, and deplorable conditions to be cared for and loved @onelife2love. In addition to her academic work, she has a private practice grounded in feminist theory.
Kathleen McCleskey, PhD, NCC, is a middle-aged, middle-class, cisgender, married, childfree, Scots/Irish heritage, White female Episcopalian. She grew into a second wave feminist after her mother brought Ms. magazine into her childhood home, and she evolved into a third and fourth wave feminist through graduate school, professional experience, and personal life. She is an associate professor of Counselor Education at Longwood University in Virginia. Her research has, for many years, focused primarily on various applications of feminist theory to clinical training, supervision, and applications with clients. She has also focused scholarship on human sexuality and on death studies.
Contributors
Kristina Brown, Anne Callahan, Liz Curtis, Darcie Davis-Gage, Laura Dawson-Fend, Donnette Deigh, David Ford, Eunae Han, Takeesha Hawkins, Nicole Jackson Walker, Joanne Jodry, Justin Jordan, Carol Klose Smith, Ashley Krompier, Dominique Maywald, Kathleen McCleskey, Emily Miller, Mariah Moran, Chase Morgan-Swaney, Janys Murphy Rising, Amy Nourie, Candace N. Park, Ronee Rice, Janine Rowe, Barbara Shaya, Valerie Stolicker, Madalyn Stott, Michelle Sunkel, Amber Sutton, Olivia Turner, Sedaria LaNora Williams, Joelle Zabotka