Vickie M. Faine

Vickie M. Faine is currently licensed as a Mental Health Counselor Associate, and was trained as a Master of Science Counselor (MSC) serving domestic violence clients before completing a Masters of Science degree in Professional Counseling. She also has a Bachelors of Arts degree in Women’s Studies, and an Associate of Science in Human Services.

Founder of The Women’s University (WU), Ms. Faine creates and presents seminars, lectures, and workshops, using a women-focused feminist approach, and her personal story, to advance womanhood, and end homelessness of women. She has made the phenomenal observation, and has initiated discussion about “The intersection of women’s miseducation and their homelessness,” and continues to observe how the lives of women in homelessness are pathologized, marginalized, and trivialized by institutions, systems, and service providers, and how it adversely impacts their biopsychosocial, and emotional existence. She understands that women’s life experiences and voices count and are major key factors to overcoming presenting symptoms and their underlying issues. Ms. Faine continues seeking innovative ways to advocate awareness and change these matters.

Ms. Faine is an expert in Wholistic Living, and uses her success story to share with women how her spirit, mind, body weight loss approach, and vegetarian eating style helped her overcome Diabetes Type II, lose over 100 pounds, and maintain change for over a decade. She is an advocate of women’s health and health prevention through natural living and ecofeminism.

A women-focused blogger for over five years, she creates content for the blog representing her new creation, The Women's University, and writes about mental-emotional well-being for The Occasional Times, a newsletter for homeless women in Seattle.