Radical Therapy - Peer Support Interest Form
This form is for anyone interested in participating (or sponsoring) radical therapy clinical peer support
Disclaimer: This group will NOT meet the requirements for your state licensing board and should be used IN ADDITION to any licensing-required supervision you are seeking
My name is Sonalee Rashatwar (they/he) LCSW MEd and
I have been licensed since 2016, working in the field of anti-violence for 10+ years, and politicized in 2010.
I am a trained sex therapist and specialize in treating sexual trauma, diet trauma, and immigrant kid trauma
I co-own Radical Therapy Center group practice based in Philadelphia with Khalida Sethi LCSW
> identities: light skin, ex hindu, indian american, upper class family, documented, born english speaker, hindi/urdu speaker, superfat, chronic pain, bisexual, queer, non binary, butch, survivor csa & adult sv
>> political orientations: BLM, acab, pro Black, pro Native, abolition, anarcho communism, anti capitalism, harm reduction, pro drugs & sobriety, sex kink bdsm +, asexuality +, anti intersex surgery, death +, fat liberation, anti diet, anti healthism, pro pleasure, sex work +, disability justice, anti zionism, anti hindutva, anti caste, anti imperial, anti colonial, anti global islamophobia/US empire, antifa, migration is a human right, fuck borders, hope is a discipline (mariame kaba), radical acceptance, non monogamy +, relationship anarchy
This group can be for: grad students, interns, new licensees, fully licensed clinicians of any license, etc.
Topics that will be included:
how to politicize therapy, gender and sexuality issues, therapy oriented toward liberation, abolitionist ways of caring for someone who is suicidal or self harms, harm reduction and substance use, divesting from colonialism and imperialism in clinical work, drug assisted therapy, internalized capitalism, internalized fatphobia, internalized casteism, white supremacy, reparations based pricing, all radical therapy topics
Fee: pay what you can ($0-100/meeting)
This group is for BIPOC only (this should not need to be said: mixed folks welcome. those mixed who are also white should have active practices around self accountability & white supremacy)
This form may take you 5 minutes to complete
Please read through each response carefully