#298 - Pat Machate - NLAi Domestic Violence Project
Pat Machate is a LCSW-C who lives in West Virginia and she has worked as a clinical therapist with families and children for the past 15 years. She began her work with intimate partner violence in Howard County, Maryland where she was the Children's Program Coordinator for the previously named Domestic Violence Center of Howard County. During that time she acted as a consultant on Domestic Violence for the Child Advocacy Center. Previously she was a Crisis Hotline and hospital Victim Accompaniment volunteer at the then called Sexual Trauma, Abuse, Rape & Recovery Center. In her clinical career, she has specialized in populations including gay and trans youth, special education, juvenile justice, disabilities, and addictions.
Pat has been active in the BDSM and Leather Community for over two decades spanning the DC Metro area to Hawaii. She received the NLA-I’s Steve Maidhof Award for International/National Dedication in 2016. She can also be seen interviewed in WOOF: A Barkumentary.
Pat is the current Chair of the National Leather Association-International's Domestic Violence Project. She also has a virtual private practice where she specializes in therapy and coaching members of alternative communities including polyamory, BDSM, and LGBTQ.
What is DVP: The Domestic Violence Project was initiated in 1998.The vision of the NLA-I Domestic Violence Project is to create a national network to provide information, appropriate referrals, resources, and safe shelters for those in the world community who have been subjected to abusive and violent BDSM relationships and who are seeking a way out of those relationships or who require a more extensive support network than is otherwise available to them.
The DVP Mission: The National Leather Association-International (NLA-I) calls on the leather/ SM/Fetish community to take the lead in reducing domestic violence through education. No group is free of domestic violence, assault, or abuse; but fear, denial and lack of knowledge have slowed public response to this serious social problem.
Link: Pat Machate LCSW-C, LCADC, Domestic Violence Project Chairperson, National Leather Association-International, www.nlaidvproject.us
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