Lisa Rainwater, PhD, is the founder of The Feminine Threshold, a gathering place for women crossing into the wild terrain of change—whether through grief, menopause, midlife, or the quiet awakenings of the soul.
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Hi! Hallo! Hei! I’M Lisa.
With a lifelong devotion to stories, symbols, and the sacred rhythms of becoming, I bring together the threads of myth, shadow work, and lived experience to help women remember what they already carry.
Before founding The Feminine Threshold, I spent years immersed in literature, teaching, activism, and existential depth psychology—each chapter deepening my understanding of transformation as both wound and wisdom.
I have lived and studied in Germany, traveled the world, and learned many languages—each a doorway into another way of knowing. These journeys have deepened my devotion to the feminine, the imaginal, and the stories women carry in our bodies and bones.
I believe thresholds are not meant to be rushed across but honored. My work invites women to pause at the entrance, to feel, to write, to rage, to rest—and ultimately, to cross into their next becoming with courage and clarity on their own timeline.
As a depth psychotherapist, I offer individual, couples, and group therapy in North Carolina, Colorado, and Wisconsin. My clinical work is grounded in Jungian, existential, and narrative traditions, with an emphasis on grief, trauma, and transformational life transitions.
This new project comes out of years of working with women standing at the threshold of becoming. In honoring their inner work, I bring The Feminine Threshold to women across the globe as an offering of peace, loving-kindness, and sanctuary.
A lifelong advocate of feminist, environmental, and social justice causes, my work is deeply informed by my years of activism and nonprofit leadership. At the heart of The Feminine Threshold is my commitment to helping women reclaim the stories that have shaped them, the stories lost, and the stories yet told—and to discover the new myths that will carry them forward.
After two decades of calling Manhattan home, I moved to the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains to commune with a spouse and a few good dogs, a circle of fierce and wise crones, a library of books, a subscription to The Criterion Channel, a wild garden, and horses.