Feminist Therapy: Supervision as a Pathway Toward Equitable, Affirming Care for Nonbinary Clients

Abstract

Given best practices for serving nonbinary clients, how can supervisors and supervisees collaborate to provide equitable, affirming services? Building on the importance of affirming practice in working with nonbinary clients, it is fruitful to explore how a collaborative-affirmative approach in feminist supervision can foster a supportive, affirming therapist-client relationship. Using analytic autoethnography, supervisor and supervisee will articulate what it means to work through a feminist lens with nonbinary clients. Their reflexive collaborative narrative will discuss the importance of examining their own social identities in supervision while highlighting the value of a collaborative-affirmative approach to supervision for a developing clinician working with nonbinary clients.

Keywords:

• Feminist therapy
• gender-affirming
• nonbinary clients
• supervision

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).