Still Feminist/Together/Growing...After All These Years

The Counseling Center for Women is a feminist therapy organization established in 1988 as a collective of clinical social workers and psychologists. A vital principle of CCW, management by feminist principles, created dilemmas that reflect conflicting values within our feminist approach. Evolving from homogeneity, participatory democracy and communality to differentiation, specialization and a greater allowance for individualism are examples of dilemmas we have faced. The turbulent political reality and the western/traditional polarity provide additional areas of complexity. A presentation of these dilemmas and their handling through feminist practice in the broadest sense is discussed.