Pro-Choice Therapists
Ashley is a licensed psychotherapist practicing online therapy in Virginia and Florida. She’s worked in sexual and reproductive health for more than a decade, and believes that pleasure goes beyond feeling good during sex.
Learn more from Ashley at: https://www.ashleydsweet.com/
And check out the new website at: https://prochoicetherapists.org/
Show Notes:
“Planned Parenthood raised me”
Abortion “moment of vulnerability”
Directory of pro-choice mental health providers
Clinical sexology- looking at sex through the lens of mental health, scientific study of sex and sexuality
“Stress management, feeling good about your body, communication with your partner, and working through shame”
6:50 more info on prochoicetherapists.org - national directory- grassroots feminist initiative
“Abortion in and of itself does not care mental health problems”
Clinician membership
“Ethical boards stand on the side of reproductive freedom”
Research shows that for most people there is relief after abortion, being turned away can lead to mental health problems
“Memorialize and honor that lived experience”
“Create a meaning that empowers someone”
“The things going on in someone’s life that are surrounding having the abortion are often what causes life’s stressors… we’re not actually supportive of pregnant people in this country”
“Holding on to a secret about a major life decision, regardless of what it is can start to balloon up inside of us”
“Nothing exists in a vacuum”
Without power and agency we create trauma
Pro-choice / anti-abortion
“Abortion is FREEDOM”
“We will always need abortion”
“Every child should be a wanted child”
