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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

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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