Meet Your Facilitator
Emma Weinstein
Emma is a white, queer, Jewish licensed therapist, experienced group facilitator, and avid home cook. Emma completed a clinical social work degree (LCSW) and fellowship at the University of Chicago and has practiced in a variety of mental health care roles for over a decade offering a narrative, relational style to support people in accessing, understanding, and sharing themselves. This offering is informed by training experiences, relationships, community organizing, and their intuitive healing, art, and spiritual practices to care for personal and collective wounds in themselves and others.
Emma partners with care and justice workers, artists, parents, educators, queer, ill and disabled people and other systems impacted and marginalized adults who feel scattered, stuck, and helpless to make emotional healing possible and sustainable so that caring for themselves, their relationships, and their worlds is fertile. This is helpful for people who experience dysregulation, overwhelm, despair, anxiety, frustration, and shame and have been disconnected from their inherent worthiness and intuition by the stress of their lives, mental health needs, and systemic marginalization and oppression.
Emma partners with care and justice spaces where people gather with their needs to facilitate collective feeling and care experiences making emotions more manageable, relatable, and releasable and receiving support more accessible, tangible, and fruitful. Emma partners with fellow care workers who may feel overwhelmed and discouraged to organize and support their healing practice for themselves and others.
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Relevant Training
Internal Family Systems Institute: Level One
Into the Body: Somatic Therapy with Tracy Jarvis
Creating Emotional and Spiritual Support Groups for Activists with Kelly Hayes and Tanuja Jagernauth
Transforming Mental Health: Histories of Resistance and Cross Movement Strategies for a Liberatory Future with Noah Gokul and Nia Nelson
They Called Us Noncompliant: The (Sedated) History of Psychiatric Resistance with Sarah Broas and Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu founder of Project LETS
Seeking Adaptive Strategies for Non-Binary Young Adults with Kai Lehocky
Social Justice and Weight Stigma with Nancy Ellis-Ordway and Melinda Gronen
Health Fascism and Body Politics with Da’Shaun L Harrison and Beatrice Adler-Bolton
Abolition in Social Work: Imagining New Modalities of Anti Racist Practice and Attendee of Abolition in Social Work Annual Summit
University of Chicago Contextual Therapy Fellowship with Paul Holmes