About Ginger Francis, APSW (She/her)

Ginger has many years of experience working to promote access to care on systems levels, and she has also always been drawn to the stories of people’s lives. Four years after college, she pursued a Master of Social Work (MSW) degree part-time to learn to be a clinician while continuing to work at the macro level, strengthening her ability to see individual experiences within the greater context of societal structures. During her schooling, she received extensive training in delivering therapeutic services with a community-based mental health agency working with survivors of sexual violence as well as with a private group practice specializing in LGBTQ+ affirmative care.

Ginger moved to Madison in 2014 and has worked at state and local levels leading health equity program and policy initiatives, overseeing medical social work, interpreter services, and community care programming, and facilitating diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism learnings and organizational change management efforts.

Her broad ranging professional, educational, and volunteer experiences over the past twenty years along with her own lived experiences as a genderqueer lesbian woman, partner, and parent bring critical insights, depth, and nuanced understandings to her clinical work in a therapeutic context.

Therapeutic EXPERTISE IN …

• LGBTQ+ identity exploration, development

  • Queer relationships and family structures

  • Parenting

  • Family conflicts

  • Relationship issues

  • Life transitions

  • Stress

  • Coping skills

  • Self esteem

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Grief and loss

  • Sexual and domestic violence

  • Healing from trauma