0597 - Rage and Resilience: Reclaiming Women's Anger in Mental Health Care
Course Description
Hours: 12
This course is designed for helping professionals who wish to deepen their understanding of women’s emotional lives and offer more attuned, empowering support. Rage & Resilience challenges both cultural and clinical narratives that pathologize women’s anger, reframing it instead as a powerful source of inner wisdom, boundary-setting and transformation. Participants will examine the roots of anger suppression, the role of gendered socialization, and the impact of trauma and systemic oppression on emotional expression. Through a blend of theory, clinical tools, case studies, and reflective practice, this course equips practitioners with trauma-informed, culturally responsive strategies to help clients safely access, express, and integrate their anger. Ultimately, this course invites clinicians to unlearn bias, disrupt burnout culture and support women in reclaiming their full emotional truth.
Learning Objectives
- Recognize women’s anger not as a symptom to manage, but as a signal of unmet needs, violated boundaries, and inner intelligence, reframing it as a powerful source of wisdom and vitality.
- Examine how systemic and internalized misogyny shape both clients’ and clinicians’ responses to anger, and learn how to create space for its expression in therapeutic work, identifying and unlearning gendered biases in mental health treatment.
- Develop trauma-informed, culturally aware strategies to support clients in processing anger safely and with dignity, while considering intersectional identities and lived experiences.
- Guide clients in transforming anger into clear boundaries, restored self-trust, renewed vitality, and empowered action in their lives and communities, integrating anger as a portal for change.
Course Outline
Notes
Time Zone: All listed class times are held in ET (Ontario, Canada)
For more information contact the Faculty of Social Work Professional Development office:
Email: fswprofessionaldevelopment@wlu.ca
Phone: 548-889-5128
Cancellations and Transfers
Be sure to carefully review our cancellation and transfer information before registering.
Website: wlu.ca/fswpd
Applies Towards the Following Certificates
- Women's Mental Health Certificate : Women's Mental Health