We’re Hiring!
Practical Audacity is a gender & sex therapy, coaching, education & consulting company, working from a strengths-based perspective and always with intention, a focus on practical change, queer innovation, and curiosity.
Who We Are
Practical Audacity was founded by Rae McDaniel, MEd, LCPC, CST (they/them), licensed therapist, Certified Sex Therapist, speaker, and author of “Gender Magic.” We are looking for team members who are as passionate as we are about our mission to serve the mental health needs of our community.
We are located in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago, and center and celebrate queer folks, trans/non-binary folks, BIPOC, polyam/kink communities, and other marginalized communities in our work.
Our Mission
We seek to expand possibility, heal, and grow in a queer-aligned, trauma-informed environment.
We are here to cultivate a community of clients, staff, professionals, and humans who see you. All of you.
We are dedicated to helping our clients live with less suffering and more ease while feeling loved and accepted for who they are.
We are committed to doing our part to create the world we want to live in.
What we Value:
Pleasure is Resistance: We view pleasure as an essential part of creating the world we wish to live in and developing our best, most turned-on and connected selves. Through connecting to our own and others’ bodies in safe and consensual ways, we foster community, healing, & creative energy. Pleasure is an act of resistance in a world that seeks to separate us from our own bodies and isolate us from others.
Possibility & Resiliency: Imagine More - We celebrate the galaxy of gender, sexual, and cultural identities. Our culture is one of shameless audacity- challenging norms, boxes, limiting beliefs, and patterns that don’t serve us. We continually work to address bias within our organization to support the leadership and healthy futures of all people, with a focus on supporting gender and sexually diverse folks, BIPOC and other non-white people of color, and anyone who believes that #BlackLivesMatter and feminism is intersectional. We do resiliency together. We own that anti-racist work is work and we are committed to doing it. See some ways we are taking action here.
Liberation Through Play - We believe in co-creating a space for levity, fun, pleasure, laughter, and curiosity. We believe that growth and change can happen from a place of strength and ease instead of suffering. We embody this value through a strengths-based model of collaboration with our clients, community building, and queer innovation. We embrace a one-tiny-step-at-a-time, bias-to-action approach by reframing and affirming diverse experiences of identity, transitions, and healing from trauma to develop positive personal narratives based in self-discovery and growth.
If hired, you will have the privilege of working with diverse clientele including trans/non-binary folks, people of color, artists, and folks in polyam/kink communities. You will be joining an intimate, yet growing, collective of therapists in our passion for helping marginalized communities to thrive. Depending on your license requirements, you will have the opportunity to participate in weekly individual and/or group supervision.
Practical Audacity is committed to honoring diversity on our team, in our clientele and within our community. We value and respect all types of diversity including, but not limited to, ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, relational orientation, age, religion and abilities. We believe that a diverse workplace makes our business stronger. We especially invite gender & sexually diverse and POC candidates to apply.