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Helen Hansel| Executive Director|[email protected]| www.WomensTherapy.org
The Womens Therapy Center (WTC) is an
incorporated 501 c(3) organization founded in 1979 to offer affordable
therapy and comprehensive professional training to the
San Francisco Bay Area.
WTC: Who We Are
WTC offers a two-or-three-year training program to therapists
interested in the relational therapy model. The therapists in our training
program provide therapy to adult women, trans/gender non-conforming adults, adolescents and couples of all genders. Service is provided at sliding scale rates, and WTC is committed to
offering affordable services for individuals of all income levels.
WTC: Who We Are
WTC was initially conceived by two Berkeley clinicians, Nina Ham and Jane Loebel,
in 1979, specifically to create a training site that offered an alternative to
existing models of teaching psychotherapy.
WTC: Our Origin Story
WTC became a non-profit corporation in 1985 and the training program expanded over the years, eventually
including couples, adolescents and transgender individuals.
Women are 11% more likely to experience anxiety disorders and 7%
more likely to experience mood disorders.
Women also traditionally have more limited access to mental health
services, particularly in low-income communities.
WTC: Why We Matter
57.4% of individuals will experience a mental disorder in
the course of their lifetime.
• Development and implementation of a clinical training program with a focus on the unique issues relevant to the female therapist-female client dyad.
• Integration of feminist and egalitarian ideals with sound clinical theory and technique.
• Provision of accessible and affordable therapy to a diverse client population.
• Organizational culture reliant on the active participation of all constituencies to create a vital training program, socially responsible client services, and a meaningful community.
WTC: Key Principles
WTC provides over 300 mental health care sessions every
month, or over 7000 per year.
WTC: What We Do
Our client sessions are provided by the 24 agency therapists enrolled in our training program each year. Our agency therapists are supervised by over 40 seasoned clinicians who provide their time pro-bono. WTC runs
on volunteer time contribution and donor/member support, with the exception of three part-time administrative staff members.
We provide our mental health services to a diverse group of clients, with diverse needs.
WTC: Who We Serve, 2011-12 Fiscal Year
WTC: Who We Serve, 2011-12 Fiscal Year
WTC’s average client does not exist- we serve women of varied ethnicities,
gender identities, sexual orientations, ages and walks of life, as well as couples, adolescents and transgender individuals.
The common thread among our clients
is that they have either been traditionally denied or had limited
access to this type of healthcare and would require some financial subsidy to be able to afford market-priced therapy.
WTC: Our Average Client
WTC: Volunteer-Run, Community Supported
Our faculty are incredibly dedicated; to call them ‘volunteers’ would be a
dramatic understatement of their meaning to WTC’s mission and
tangible work in the community.
Our faculty make it possible for WTC to
provide the services we provide and to continue advancing our mission within our community.
WTC: Volunteer-Run, Community Supported
WTC faculty charge an average professional rate of $132 per hour outside their work at WTC, and give an average of 7 hours per
month. Our average faculty member has been with WTC for 11 years.
• Our training program is currently training 24 therapists.
• Each therapist sees clients that they build a relationship with and can continue to serve once they leave WTC.
• Agency therapists in training can begin building their practice at WTC, while accruing credit hours and learning skills from our expert faculty.
• Our agency therapists are of diverse ages, races, gender identities, ages and sexual orientations, much like our client base.
WTC: Our Training Program
WTC offers a Two Year Program in Relational Psychotherapy and a one year Advanced Therapy Program (ATP) aimed at graduates of the Two Year Program, as well as licensed or nearly-licensed clinicians. Each agency therapist works closely with two faculty supervisors throughout their time at WTC.
• WTC has prioritized recruiting a racially diverse group of therapists to best serve our community.
• Since 2010, over half of our agency therapists are women of color.
• We strive to foster a training environment where dialogue about oppression, internalized oppression and privilege is encouraged.
• Our commitment to diversity is directly related to the service we provide to our clients- we do not believe you can treat individuals an understanding of their cultural environment.
• Therapists who graduate from our programs will enter into private practice, providing a long term resource for the community.
WTC: Commitment to Diversity
Funding for diversity training is an organizational priority. Currently, the majority of our volunteer faculty are European-American, and we are actively striving to change these demographics.
Aside from training and direct client
services, WTC also offers membership to local therapists and
hosts events and support groups, as well
as producing original programming relevant
to the community.
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Clinical and Executive Directors. Elena Moser and Helen Hansel, who
organize and supervise the Volunteer Faculty.
Volunteer Faculty, who supervise Agency Therapists enrolled in WTC’s
training Program.
Agency Therapists, who provide relational therapy sessions to WTC
clients.
WTC clients, who are served by WTC Agency Therapists.
WTC also hosts events, puts on original educational workshops and other programming, and provides a membership program to local
therapists, which offers perks such as listing in our directory, discounted ticketing rates to our events and member-exclusive
functions.
WTC: Our Community
The WTC facility moved from our El Cerrito location in 2010 and is now centrally located
in downtown Berkeley, across from Berkeley High and the
Berkeley City Hall.
Notable Events, Groups and Workshops, 2011-2012
• Workshop and lectures: Fear of Fat Series
• Transgender client service clinical training
• Diversity training and facilitated faculty/agency therapist discussion
• Lecture and group: Gender transitions throughout the life cycle
• Clinical Case Seminar: Working with gender creative children and their families
WTC: Events and Other Programming
Elena Moser, Clinical Director
Elena Moser, LCSW has been affiliated with the Women's Therapy Center since 1996 when she
joined the Teaching and Supervising Faculty, and has been the Clinical Director of the Agency since 2004. Since graduating from UC Berkeley with an
MSW in 1982, and becoming licensed in 1985, Elena has supervised and taught beginning
psychotherapists at UC Berkeley's Counseling and Psychological Services, the Gay Counseling
Program, The Pacific Center for Human Growth, the Psychotherapy Institute, Berkeley Mental
Health, and The Wright Institute, in addition to the Women's Therapy Center. Elena oversees both the Two-year Training in Relational Psychotherapy,
and the one year Advanced Therapy Program.
WTC: Our Clinical Team
Volunteer Faculty
Jane Ariel, PhD, Leslie Bell, PhD, LCSW , Mary Bradford, PhD, MFT, Joanna Wise Bradman, LCSW,
Maria Pilar Bratko, MFT, Robin Butler, MFT, Margie Cohen, LCSW, Susan Diamond Moore, LC,
SW, Shannon Dubach, PsyD, MBA, Robin Fine, PhD, Debra Gajer, LCSW, Frayda Garfinkle, MFT,
Sharon Gregory, MFT, Marianne Gunther-Murphy, MFT, Sharon Haase, MFT, Linda
Hammond, MFT, Wendy Heffner, MFT, Melissa Holub, PhD, Richelle Jacobs, MFT, Elsa Johnson, PhD, DMH, SJ Kahn, MFT, Sarah Kim-Marchant, LCSW, Keiko Lane, MFT, Esther Lang, MFT, Mary
Ann Leff, MFT, Esther Lerman, MFT, Janet Linder, PhD, LCSW, Debra Lyman, LCSW, Audrey Martin, MFT, Valory Mitchell, PhD, Elena Moser, LCSW,
Karen Naifeh, PhD, Lonnie Prince, LCSW, Desiree Reitknecht, MFT, Meira Salman, MFT, Linda
Shapiro, MFT, Lili Shidlovski, MFT, Deena Solwren, LCSW, Jennifer Sterling, MFT, Debra Tayleur, MFT,
Taryn Thomas, MFT, Nancy Ulmer, LCSW, Catherine Valdez, MFT, Whitney van Nouhuys,
MFT, PhD, Sharon Wells, MFT Marguerite Wilhite, LCSW
Helen Hansel, Executive Director
Helen Hansel, MFT has been the Executive Director at the Women's Therapy Center (WTC) since 2009. She brings over 20 years experience as a non-profit administrator and clinician. Her passion is program planning and development; thinking creatively about how to bring quality and personalized psychotherapy services and training to the greatest number in need with
limited resources. One of her proudest professional accomplishments to date was
leading the development of a multi-disciplinary interview center in Contra Costa County, a child friendly place for children to be questioned by a trained interviewer about allegations of abuse. For this and her other child advocacy work in
the County, Helen was awarded the Warrington Stokes Award in 1996.
WTC: Our Administrative Team and Board of Directors
Board of Directors
Judith G. Noel, Chair
Natasha DistillerElsa JohnsonMary Ann Leff
Renetia MartinMargarita Molina-HinkleyAngelina
StrosahlNancy TurakLiberty Velez
WTC is moving toward accomplishing the following goals and hopes to secure funding to help us achieve our ongoing
mission and community work.
• Maintaining the ethnic diversity of clients and Agency Therapists and increasing the ethnic diversity among our Faculty, Staff and Board.
• Continuing to provide sliding scale therapy to underserved, diverse local populations.
• Providing industry thought-leadership through original programs, workshops and educational events.
• Expanding services to include regular support groups, including those for seniors, parents of transgender or gender creative children and teens.
• Partnering with other non-profits and business entities to expand service and programming, including Berkeley High and the City of Berkeley’s Sex Trafficking Task Force and Peace and Justice Commission.
WTC: Where We’re Going
WTC makes a positive, holistic impact on the community, offering key resources in a variety of ways:
WTC: Key Impacts
• Offers quality relational therapy to community members.
• Provides mental health care at sliding-scale rates, allowing traditionally underserved populations access.
• Trains therapists for one, two or three years.
• Provides industry thought-leadership through programming and educational events.
• Collaborates with organizations to provide community resources.
• Supports political causes and actions that are aligned with our social justice mission.
Total financial value of volunteer
faculty contribution: $476,
784, every year.
Over 7200 therapy sessions provided
to clients every year
301 hours of volunteer faculty time every month
24 Agency Therapists
43 Volunteer Faculty Members
3 Paid Part-Time Staff Members
Over 150 Members5 large educational events/workshops
every year
Average length of faculty
involvement with WTC: 11 years
Contributed by donors in fiscal
year 2011-2012: $40,000
WTC: By The Numbers
WTC is seeking $150K in private and public grant funding to fund strategic
expansion, further development of our staff and
programs, creation and implementation of sustaining
supporter program and cultivation of our current donor and member base.
WTC: Strategic Direction and Funding Needs
Funding will support:
• New development director position and 2 new administrative hires.
• Acquisition/rental of more space to see clients and host groups.
• Development of more original programming.
• Staff and faculty trainings, including on issues of diversity.
• Implementation of essential systems, such as an intake database and similar.
WTC faces a core issue with our model for service provision:
Our average client session costs the agency $51, but the average client
pays $39.
WTC must effectively raise the additional $12 necessary to subsidize
each session, as well as funding for any additional programming or resources
we provide to the community.
WTC: Building Infrastructure
We are seeking funding to help us develop sustainable support through our own community and expand our service
offering to the wider Bay Area.
We are committed to continuing to provide affordable therapy to
underserved communities, but currently lack the organizational infrastructure to
build/seek the sustainable funding sources necessary to supplement our
service model.
WTC: Building Infrastructure
With secured grant and private donor funding, WTC will focus on
development of the non-service resources we provide, including a more comprehensive membership program and more in-depth programming. We will also focus on become more visible in the community, with original content production and development of a web community built around our website and blog. WTC has a great reputation
in the Bay Area, and we want to capitalize on our momentum in this
area to strategically expand our mission and programming.
WTC: Resource and Visibility Development
Funding will support:
• Update of website to a content management system (CMS), which will support a web community of our members and other interested parties.
• Marketing materials development including a public annual report.
• Launch of YouTube channel, Google Adwords grant, and managed social media presence.
• Community outreach, including to the Teen Center and Berkeley High School.
WTC: Strategic Planning
WTC’s Strategic Planning Committee has developed a 24-month strategic plan that is in
the early stages of operationalization. Currently, much of the plan is dependent on funding growth and includes
detailed steps on rolling out both funding-dependent
components and currently-implementable components.
Strategic Plan Includes:
SWOT AnalysisMarketing Plan
Measurable goals for all committees
Process for data collection
Financial goals and targets
WTC faces a unique challenge in the coming months and years: though we have historically been a woman-centric organization and identify as a feminist non-
profit, we are wrestling new notions about the gender binary. Currently, our organization serves and trains women and gender non-conforming people. As an
organization, we are in dialogue about how to be more fully gender inclusive while maintaining our reputation
and identity of serving the unique needs of women. These conversations have been guided by a small
committee which includes our Clinical Director and longtime participants of WTC. It’s a time of substantial
change for WTC and though it can feel painful and confusing, we feel confident our team can navigate the
changing climate and our evolving presence with sensitivity and aplomb.
WTC: Our Evolving Mission
• WTC provides over 300 client sessions per month and our revenue is primarily generated through service fees.
• We have a small, but committed donor base.• WTC also makes money from membership fees,
though this accounts for a minimal amount of our yearly revenue.
• We look forward to developing sustainable funding sources and expanding our donor base.
• Detailed financial statements available upon request.
WTC: Our Financial Model
• WTC received over 400 client inquiries between January and April of 2013.
• There is enormous need for our services, but we lack the resources to meet the needs of the community at our current scale.
• Of the 400 inquiries received in the first quarter of 2013, WTC was only able to serve 100 clients.
• Additional funding is needed for a second clinical Program Manager to oversee more therapists in training.
• Funding is needed to subsidize clients who cannot afford our lowest current rate of $25.
WTC: Meeting Community Needs, Limited Resources
30%
7%
5%
20%
10%
8%
20%
Part Time Development Di-rector (will raise own salary after Year 1)Marketing (Print, online, materials development)Website Redesign and De-velopment of Web Commu-nityPart Time Administrative As-sociate Costs of additional space for serviceDevelopment of programmingPart Time Program Associate
WTC: Funding Needs and Uses, $150K for 2014-2015 Fiscal Year
We believe that all women, and all people, deserve access to quality mental health care,
regardless of income level or lack of traditional access channels.
We believe that talk therapy provides a deeply empowering experience that can help people
from all walks of life learn skills to capably, healthfully navigate a difficult world. WTC is
profoundly committed to providing these service affordably and comprehensively,
raising awareness of their importance and providing attendant resources to the Bay Area
community.
WTC: Our Vision For Mental Health in the Bay Area
We are seeking funders who believe in our mission and our
management team, who want to help the Bay Area become
happier, healthier and more competent. Please consider joining our mission and work
today.
WTC: An Investment in Bay Area Mental Health