Therapy for good girls who grew up to be mad women
Healing patriarchal trauma so you can stop people-pleasing, reclaim your voice, and channel your rage
Supporting Women Virtually in
New Jersey
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New York
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Pennsylvania
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New Jersey ♥ New York ♥ Pennsylvania ♥
Welcome, fellow mad woman
My name is Lauren Redding and a licensed clinical social worker and women’s trauma specialist. I support clients in NJ, NY and PA through the incredibly bad-ass work of processing patriarchal trauma so they can find their voices and live life as their most authentic, joyful, furious selves. I help women regulate their nervous systems so they’re better able to effectively engage in the political fight currently underway in our country. It’s the coolest, hardest work I’ve ever done. I’d love for you to join me.
We’re all mad here
Welcome to Mad Woman Therapy, where your anger isn’t a problem — it’s the key to your power. At MWT, I specialize in providing trauma therapy to women who are tired of shrinking, silencing themselves, and carrying the weight of patriarchal conditioning.
If you've been told you're ‘too much,’ if you’ve spent years people-pleasing, apologizing, or repressing your rightful rage, this is the space where you get to unlearn all of that.
Our work isn’t about ‘managing’ your anger — it’s about understanding it, healing the trauma beneath it, and channeling it into political action. Through deep, transformative therapy, we help you break free from the ‘nice girl’ script and step into your fullest, fiercest self.
Because your healing isn’t just personal — it’s revolutionary.
Nothin’ like a mad woman
Photo courtesy of the League of Women Voters
Throughout history, the word “mad” has been wielded as a weapon against women — used to dismiss, discredit, and control those who refused to conform. Women who spoke up, resisted, or challenged authority were labeled hysterical, unstable, irrational — their emotions pathologized, their pain ignored, their power stripped away.
At the same time, women are denied the ability express the other kind of mad. Anger — a natural, justified response to oppression, injustice, and harm — is seen as unfeminine, inappropriate, and dangerous when it comes from women, especially those of color. So we people-please. We smile through the disrespect, soften our voices, package our fury into something palatable.
But the truth is, our anger isn’t the problem — the systems that provoke and then suppress it are. It’s time to embrace our anger for what it is — a signal that something is wrong. And we refuse to stay silent about it.
