​Bernadine Fox has spent a lifetime understanding harm through the patterns it weaves in our lives. She traced the roots of intergenerational harm, in her own family, back six generations and can draw the connections between that and her own profound childhood trauma and then adult harm like battery and therapy abuse. She knows what it looks like when we have been taught that our victimization is normal, or when our trauma responses have been pathologized and we are defined by, and responsible for, the actions of our offenders. Through her international work: visual art, writing, radio, and work with survivors, Bernadine has become known for one specific thing: the ability to see clearly and reflect back what others have not been able to name, whether to an individual, an institution, or to deconstruct a social issue. Bernadine is an educated witness. She believes and embodies that one of the most profound healing gifts we can give one another is truly seeing and accepting each other for who we are.  She has emerged from social and personal harm, not as a mental health professional but as a cartographer of lived experience holding a map.
 

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Radio:
​rethreading Madness

Radio that explores lived experience beyond the notions of mental health that too often center on disorder and pathology. 

Rethreading Madness

Visual Art: Portfolio

Oil on canvas and mixed media assemblage that examines memory, identity, trauma, narrative, and the social constructs that shape us.​

Visual Art

survivor advocacy and writing 

Peer support, groups, workshops, and writing for survivors of therapy abuse and exploitation — including the memoir Coming To Voice: Surviving an Abusive Therapist

Therapy Abuse