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Cultural Competency and Trauma-Informed Care for Working with Trans and Trans BIPOC Clients: Create a Welcoming and Gender-Affirming Safe and Trusting Environment
In the current world of ever-increasing political attacks and proposed policies in our schools and at the government level—which discriminate against trans youth and adults as well as seeks to criminalize and erase their mental health and other gender affirming care—trans emotional trauma is on the rise. In addition to dealing with gender dysphoria, trans people are hearing and seeing their very existence being questioned and devalued causing a spike in anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation.
The last thing a trans client needs at this delicate time is to come to you for mental health support only to inadvertently be hurt yet again. Not deliberately, but for a lack of the specialized knowledge and insight needed to truly care for this especially vulnerable community.
In this recording, watch Rizi Nasele Bamaiyi Timane, LCSW, DSW, a Certified Trans-Sensitivity and Diversity Trainer to ensure that you are ready and confident to provide informed care from the very first moment that you begin engaging with trans client.
After attending you’ll be to:
- Accurately use the right name and pronoun
- Avoid the most common barriers trans clients face in therapy
- Utilize trans specific trauma informed care as early as the first session
- Foster trust, safety and connection pathing the way for sharing
- Provide a trans safe zone to ensure you can make treatment progress
When the trans client can trust and see you as an affirming caregiver, the therapy sessions will transform for both you and the client as they will open up. Dr. Timane’s session will help you expand your practice with confidence by declaring yourself and your practice as being not only LGBT friendly but specifically, Trans affirming and safe!
Program Information
Objectives
- Utilize key terminology/acronyms when working with diverse populations such as transgender individuals and transgender people of color.
- Determine the major barriers to social services, mental health and challenges facing transgender persons and transgender people of color.
- Apply trauma-informed concepts to work with culturally diverse and transgender populations.
- Utilize strategies to create a welcoming and gender-affirming environment for culturally and gender diverse individuals.
Outline
- The Need for Cultural Diversity in Mental Health
- Learn Cultural competence with diverse populations
- Trans BIPOC Clients
- Become a culturally sensitive affirming mental health provider
- Intersectionality of Race, Gender identity and Sexual Orientation:
- How to apply trauma-informed concepts to working with culturally diverse and transgender populations
Target Audience
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Social Workers
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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06/29/2022
Apply Queer History, Knowledge, and Theory in Clinical Practice: Strategies that Build Connection, Rapport, and Trust While Reducing Client Shame and Minority Stress
With multiple generations and different perspectives of identity, it’s essential for clinicians to understand the current queer zeitgeist in historical context and to grasp the social and clinical impacts of queer theory, if you plan to have a successful queer-informed practice.
This recording offers anchoring queer principles and corresponding strategies to help you:
- Support, empower, and appropriately challenge gender and sexual minority (GSM) clients of every generation
- Create connections, rapport, and trust with clients of multiple generations
- Decrease the traumatic effects of shame and minority stress
- Increase psychological flexibility for LGBTQ+ clients
- Challenge biased narratives of sex and gender that often impede treatment
Build trust and credibility with your LGBTQ+ clients by expanding your knowledge of this ever-evolving population!
Program Information
Objectives
- Utilize LGBTQ+ historical knowledge in clinical practice to build connection, rapport, and trust, with GSM clients of multiple generations.
- Appraise conditioned clinician biases about sexuality and gender that often impede treatment with LGBTQ+ clients.
- Apply queer theory principles strategically in a clinical setting to decrease the traumatic effects of shame and minority stress and to increase psychological flexibility for LGBTQ+ clients.
Outline
- Queer history every clinician should know
- Frameworks and discourse of sexuality and gender over time
- Key events (traumatic, courageous, and healing) that shaped the LGBTQ+ narrative
- Use this knowledge to strengthen the therapeutic relationship
- Current Queer Principles Applied in Practice (With Self and Clients)
- Challenge dominant discourses of sexuality and gender
- Challenge binaries in the exploration of identity, expression, and disclosure
- Engage in sex positive and sex critical dialogue
- Address intersectionality of identity and experience
- Political resistance as an intervention
- Ongoing Assessment through a Queer Lens
- Safety and harm reduction
- The language of the client
- The meaning of identities and experiences
- Limitations of Research and Potential Risks
Target Audience
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Social Workers
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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06/29/2022
Discrimination and Microaggressions on LGBTQIA+ Client Mental Health: Apply Intersectionality as a Framework to Clinical Treatment
In this recording, Dr. Shanéa Thomas shares the necessary skills to address the impact of micro/macroaggressions, oppression and discrimination against LGBTQIA2s+ clients. Using the framework of intersectionality, you’ll learn how to:
- Recognize the various forms of microaggressions and discrimination
- Combat the fear of messing up by practicing accountability and self-awareness
- Repair and recover when you make mistakes or cause harm to clients
- Challenge client's' experiences of shame
- Build an equitable and inclusive therapeutic environment for all clients
There is a growing pressure for clinicians and service providers to catch up to the fast pace of inclusion in a rapidly changing society, purchase today!
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Objectives
- Apply intersectionality as a framework in clinical practice through the appropriate use of language, terminology, and consideration of historical contexts.
- Evaluate the effects of discrimination and microaggressions on LGBTQIA+ clients using research and clinical case study examples.
- Apply resources provided to become better allies and advocates to the community, regardless of sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, and racial and ethnic identity.
Outline
- Intersectionality and Covering as Survival: Where Our Parts Meet
- Apply intersectionality as a framework to clinical practice
- Concepts of covering and passing as a survival in social environments
- Prejudices, Microaggressions, and Discrimination on Mental Health: What Lies Beneath
- Presence of LGBTQ+ folks in healthcare system
- Intersection of mental health and the LGBTQ+ community
- How to analyze research and theory which supports the lack of equity and societal support
- Making Mistakes and Owning Harm: People, Pronouns and Compassion
- Our responsibility as clinicians to model accountability for harms caused
- Micro, mezzo and macro clinical examples of micro/macroaggressions
- Nondiscriminatory treatment of clients
- Anti-Discriminatory Practices and Exercises: Tips, Tools and Resources
- Internalize complex lessons
- Integrative practice for all people
- Limitations of research and potential risks
Target Audience
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Social Workers
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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06/29/2022
Gay Male Sexuality: Challenging Heterocentric Norms to Promote Client’s Health and Identity Development
Modern gay men are evolving sexually. There is pressure to be part of the “hook up” culture and self-identify as tops, bottoms and versatile. However, there is growing pushback of gay men who also identify as a new term called a side—a gay man who does not enjoy nor engage in anal intercourse.
Gay men remain outspoken about their erotic desires before the romance even begins to ensure being erotically matched. They are often mislabeled as “sex addicts” and sexually compulsives. Monogamy is also a discussion regarding whether or not it is right for them. Therapists often assume they know more than they do about how gay men engage in erotic and sexual play and unfortunately impose heterocentric norms as a couple. This recording will normalize the unique ways gay men talk and play sexually.
Program Information
Objectives
- Differentiate the meaning of being a top, bottom, versatile and side.
- Analyze the norms which exist within gay male sexuality.
- Create a treatment plan for prevention and intervention for STI’s, STD’s and HIV.
- Assess quality of relationship based on consensual monogamy and non-monogamy.
Outline
- Tops, Bottoms, Versatile and Sides
- How to ask the right sexual questions
- Norms which exist within gay male sexuality
- Nuances of various kinks and fetishes in amongst gay men
- Treatment planning for prevention and intervention of STI’s, STD’s and HIV
- How gay men deal with STI’s, STD’s, and HIV and how PrEP and PEP are used for prevention
- Limitations of Research and Potential Risks
Target Audience
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Social Workers
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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06/29/2022
BIPOC LGBTQIA+ Clients and the Intersection of Spirituality, Religion and Emotional Wellness: Integrating Internal Family Systems, Somatic Experiencing, and Brainspotting in Therapy
BIPOC LGBTQIA+ clients often find that their spirituality is the only thing that keeps them connected to a community that marginalizes them for being a person of color and someone that identifies as LGBTQIA+. Working with clients from the intersection of spirituality, religion and emotional wellness for the BIPOC LGBTQIA+ community can be tricky. Often clinicians use personal religious beliefs and/or spiritual tenets that may pathologize a client's sexuality, sexual orientation, gender identification and/or sexual preference. Because of this possible issue, clients are placed in a situation that harms verses providing healing for the presenting issue(s) at hand.
With the use of Internal Family System (IFS) therapy, Brainspotting, EMDR, and Somatic Experiencing (SE), you’ll be offered a way to hold on to your personal beliefs without imposing them on their clients. Using multiplicity of self, understanding the use of SELF energy, accessing critical mass of self during sessions and working through the “healing steps” of the modalities of choice for this population!
This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.
Program Information
Objectives
- Apply the understanding of the intersection between religion, spirituality and emotional wellness among the BIPOC LGBTQIA community when working with clients.
- Assess the importance of context of the spiritual thought or religious thought while in session with BIPOC LGBQTIA client.
- Utilize techniques from IFS, SE, and Brainspotting to avoid or limit pathologizing your client.
- Design IFS, SE, and Brainspotting treatment plans that limit countertransference or transference regarding personal views regarding sexuality and LGBTQIA community as it relates to spirituality belief, religious thought, and emotional wellness.
Outline
- Intersectionality and What it Has to do with Spirituality, Religion and Emotional Wellness in BIPOC Clients
- Utilize intersectionality in clinical settings
- Distinguish spirituality from religion
- Investigate how both play into emotional wellness for the BIPOC LGBTQIA community
- How Spirituality and Religion Pathologize BIPOC LGBTQIA Clients When Used Out of Context
- BIPOC and LGBTQIA communities and how each affects emotional wellness
- Analyze pathologizing BIPOC; LGBTQIA; and BIPOC LGBTQIA
- Pitfalls of using spiritual and religious teachings out of context
- How to Access Context for Use of Spirituality and Religious Thought in Therapy Sessions
- Theorize the application of the Afrocentric Paradigm to practice with BIPOC LGBTQIA individuals as it relates to resources that are clinical in nature that incorporate Spirituality, Sexual orientation and BIPOC understanding
- Spiritual assessment modifications that focused on BIPOC LGBTQIA clients
- Clinically aligned spiritual references that have no agenda toward BIPOC LGBTQIA individuals/community
- Therapeutic Models Used In Practice for Spirituality Work With BIPOC LGBTQIA Community
- Introduction of Internal Family Systems, Brainspotting, EMDR and SE as modalities of choice
- How attunement is used with each model to support spirituality in BIPOC LGBTQIA community
- Limitations of Research and Potential Risks
Target Audience
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Social Workers
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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06/29/2022
Techniques to Repair LGBTQIA+ Child-Parent Connection: Internal Family Systems, Play Therapy and Sand Tray to Enhance Stability in Families
When some parents discover their child is a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, this may halt, or even destroy, the narrative they have unknowingly placed on their child(ren). If left unprocessed, it can lead to destructive parenting practices. This is a critical time for all members of the family unit. In this recording, view Carmen Jimenez-Pride to learn not only how to meet each family member where they are at, but to help parents understand and acknowledge how their prewritten narratives and extreme feelings of grief, loss and fear can affect their parenting techniques.
Through IFS therapy, play therapy, and sand tray skills you’ll be able to:
- Assist parents in exploring their parts and gain an understanding of the child’s parts
- Help parents understand how their prewritten narratives and extreme feelings of grief, loss and fear can affect their parenting and harm their child
At the end of the session, you'll leave with therapeutic interventions that encourage a healthy dialogue, reestablish a strong family core, and renew stable family structures.
This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.
Program Information
Objectives
- Develop clinical skills to rewrite family narratives in play therapy to increase caregiver-child connection.
- Demonstrate methods of connection between the parent and child within the family play therapy setting.
- Design clinical approaches that emphasize the importance of guilt, loss, grief, and fear—common feelings of parents of LGBTQIA children.
Outline
- Incorporating IFS and Play Therapy Strategies
- Identifying parts of the system by external representation
- Exploring non-directive and child centered play therapy strategies
- Sand Tray Play Therapy Techniques
- Adult and Child learning their internal system of self, protectors and exiles
- Identifying the difference between managers and firefighters
- Emotional intelligence: Increasing emotional literacy by identifying the feelings of parts within the system
- Strengthen the Communication between to Adult and Child
- Adults being able to express their feelings of grief and loss
- Children maintaining effective communication with adults
Target Audience
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Social Workers
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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06/30/2022
Family Systems Approach to Gender Affirmative Care: Foster Gender Wellness in Transgender, Nonbinary and Gender Expansive Youth and Their Families
This recording will provide a deeper understanding of gender expansive children and youth within a family systems approach to care. Through case examples, hands on skills, and didactic learning, you’ll learn to apply:
- Gender and identity development theories in client care
- Family systems when treating youth in and out of home care or other kinship and communal parenting models
- Gender Affirmative Model of Care and Cohen’s Intersectional Gender Care Model
- Internal Family Systems to foster gender wellness
This session can support cross disciplines offering foundational concepts of gender identity and offers advanced mental health-based case consultation for seasoned and early career clinicians alike.
Program Information
Objectives
- Demonstrate applications of gender identity, gender expression and gender development from early childhood through young adulthood.
- Practice applications of Cohen’s Intersectional Gender Care Model and the Gender Affirmative Care Model with children and youth.
- Develop competencies to support and engage families and caregiving systems with gender-expansive children and youth.
- Integrate models of care discussed and affirming care practices to case studies.
Outline
- Gender Affirmative Model of Care within a Family Systems Framework
- Application for children, youth and families
- Challenge Binary and Heteronormative Frames
- Understand youth in the context of gender identity
- Strengthen Foundational Concepts and Distinct Variables
- Gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation
- Consultation on Differential Diagnosis
- Complex mental health, trauma, developmental variables
- Where they are independent and related to gender
- Gender dysphoria and euphoria
- Way to increase protective factors
- Limitations of Research and Potential Risks
Target Audience
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Social Workers
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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06/30/2022
Supporting Very Young Trans Clients and Their Families: Evidence-Informed Gender Affirming Principles of Care
In this recording, view Susan as she addresses concerns that are especially relevant to the very young transgender child or gender diverse child, as well as the child’s parents or guardians. You'll get an overview of developmental and clinical concerns that are critical to providing mental health support to the young gender diverse child, in the context of the family. You’ll learn:
- Age and developmentally appropriate characteristics that affirm young client’s gender
- Barriers to care such as provider bias, laws that criminalize the support of gender affirming care, parent concerns, and other inaccurate/incorrect beliefs that impede access to care
- Overtly/covertly harmful as well as supportive parent behaviors
- Parent strategies to prepare for potential challenges by law enforcement or by another relative
Research has confirmed that there are very important variables that influence social and mental health outcomes of this young population. Parent support for the transgender child is strongly aligned with better health, mental health, and educational outcomes. Don’t miss this must-see session!
Program Information
Objectives
- Determine at least three characteristics of very young transgender children.
- Assess for three major clinical concerns that may impact very young transgender children.
- Analyze case studies of 2 harmful/supportive parent behaviors and 2 helpful/unsupportive parent behaviors.
- Create a mock safe folder and apply it to clinical practice.
Outline
- From an Affirming Lens
- Principles of Gender Affirming Care for Young Children (including misperceptions)
- Risk and Protective Factors relevant to very young transgender children
- Parent Counseling and psychoeducation
- Limitations of Research and Potential Risks
Target Audience
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Social Workers
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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06/30/2022
Readiness for Gender-Affirmative Medical Treatments: Letters of Support for Trans and Gender Expansive Youth and Adults
In this recording, view Deb Coolhart, PhD, LMFT, a clinician with over 20 years of experience working with trans and gender expansive individuals, as she provides you with all the information you need to assist youth and adult clients determine their readiness for medical gender-affirmative treatments. You’ll receive:
- A tool for determining readiness for gender-affirmative medical treatments
- Guidelines for writing letters of support, as well as sample letters
Any masters-level mental health provider can be qualified to support these important, sometimes life-saving treatments. So, the next time you are asked to write a letter of support for gender-affirmative treatments, you will be prepared!
Program Information
Objectives
- Apply gender-affirmative care strategies to clinical work with trans and gender expansive youth and adults.
- Utilize a tool to determine readiness for gender-affirmative medical treatments with trans and gender expansive youth and adults.
- Execute written letters of support for gender-affirmative medical treatments for clients.
Outline
- Challenges/Barriers in Gender Affirming Care
- Pervasive discrimination
- Access to care
- Gatekeeping
- Importance of being a visible gender-affirmative provider
- Prioritizing clients’ urgency
- Model for Making Decisions About Gender-Affirmative Medical Treatments
- Role of persistence and distress
- Tool for Determining Readiness for Gender-Affirmative Medical Treatments
- Assessing upcoming challenges and sources of support
- Domains:
- Early awareness of gender and family context
- Parental/family attunement
- Current gender expression
- School context
- Sexual/relationship development
- Current intimate relationship(s)
- Support
- Future plans/expectations
- Writing Letters of Support
- What to include and not include
- How to handle concerns
- Limitations of Research and Potential Risks
Target Audience
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Social Workers
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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06/30/2022
Working with Erotically Expansive, Non-Monogamous Individuals and Couples: Expanding the Relationship Paradigm in Clinical Practice
Love is expansive, organic and limitless. And yet our cultural paradigm for love, and clinical work in relationships, centers on heteronormative monogamy and a singluar sexual, romantic, and life partner. In this recording, we will explore current relationship paradigms, discuss emerging alternatives, and unpack the clinical implications of moving towards a more expansive sex and relationship model.
Queering therapy at every level means eliminating default modes, considering the vast horizons possible when oppression is dismantled and the complexities of humans are uplifted. We will plant seeds for further learning about therapy with relationally and erotically diverse clients in general!
Program Information
Objectives
- Assess relationship structures from a more critical lens and apply alternative relationship structures to work with clients.
- Integrate two skills to increase non-judgement and curiosity when meeting with relationally diverse clients.
- Utilize and adapt clinical skills and tools such as IFS and EFT to support couple or a group therapy.
Outline
History of Our Relationship Paradigm:
- Purpose/historical/sociological role of monogamy and heteronormativity
A New Relationship Paradigm:
- Types of relationships/structures
- Space for gender/ sexual diversity within relational diversity
- Queerness
- Gender expansiveness
- Kink
- Caring for relationally and erotically diverse folks
- Oppression that results/ stigma and harm
Clinical Skills and Tools:
- IFS adapted
- Non-judgement/ curiosity
- EFT/ couples models adapted
- Trauma integration in healing relationship-based oppression
- Queering therapy and the process
Target Audience
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Social Workers
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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06/30/2022
Ethical Curiosity with Trans and Non-Binary Clients: Practices to Dismantle the Entitlement to Know
As providers we are often taught that curiosity is a value worth cultivating in ourselves, that is a pro-social virtue that promotes growth, learning, and connection. But in work with erotically marginalized populations, such as trans and non-binary clients, curiosity can have a shadow side, and it can often be deployed in such a way that it replicates, however unconsciously, dynamics of oppression.
As philosopher Perry Zurn writes, trans and non-binary folx “consistently experience themselves as the object of” cis folx’s curiosity, and often at the hands of providers. Through lecture, case study, brainstorming, and discussion, this recording will introduce the concept of ethical curiosity, a model of relating and being-with as providers that respects and empowers our trans and non-binary clients and dismantles an entitlement to know!
Program Information
Objectives
- Appraise ways a curiosity steeped in an “entitlement to know” can impact both trans and non-binary clients’ lives as well as the client-therapist relationship.
- Practice ethical curiosity in clinical practice, particularly with trans, non-binary, and/or gender expansive clients.
- Apply 2-3 somatic, trauma-informed, pleasure-attuned techniques and interventions for addressing sexual health concerns with trans, non-binary, and gender expansive folx from an ethically curious stance.
Outline
- Introductions, Intentions, Group Agreements
- What is Curiosity?
- Unethical Curiosity and the “Entitlement to Know”
- “Genital Curiosity” and Making Genitals Speak
- Practices to Dismantle the “Entitlement to Know”
- Examining “Who is this For?”
- Re-Visioning Informed Consent
- Location of Self
- Expanding Scope of Competence and Avoiding the Client as Educator
- Treating the Client in Front of You
- Case Conceptualization and Vignette (Breakout Room Activity)
- Limitations of Research and Potential Risks
Target Audience
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Social Workers
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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07/01/2022
Lesbian Phobia: Strategies to Help Move Clients Beyond the Trauma of Growing Up in a Misogynistic and Heterosexist World
When working with lesbian clients do you sometimes find yourself stuck on how to help them develop a strong sense of self or meet their potential?
Most psychology programs don’t address lesbian issues from an affirmative perspective, leaving therapists on their own to find ways to navigate these cases. But it doesn’t have to be. Understanding the unique issues lesbians face in their lives is a game-changer.
In this recording, view Lauren Costine, PhD, (she/her) and learn the most cutting-edge techniques to help you assess and treat your lesbian clients that traditional techniques don’t always adequately address.
You’ll learn specific strategies to help lesbian clients overcome challenges with:
- The double “ism” of sexism and heterosexism that creates lesbianphobia
- Trauma and sense of self from growing up a woman and lesbian
- Low self-esteem and internalized lesbianphobia
- Dysfunctional relationship patterns, identity development, and addictions
- Co-dependency, boundary issues, and attachment problems
- Lesbian friendships and communities
You'll walk away with concrete tools to help you navigate sessions resulting in stronger confidence as an affirming clinician. Your clients will start experiencing a stronger sense of self, self-confidence and access to feelings of joy and well-being!
Program Information
Objectives
- Differentiate between typical childhood trauma issues and ones unique to a lesbian growing up in a heterosexist and misogynistic world.
- Employ practical tools that will help clients acquire a new perspective about how their challenges and experiences in the world have influenced their dysfunctional behavioral patterns, self-esteem issues and/or compensatory defenses.
- Integrate a lesbian-affirmative lens with other psychotherapy modalities to improve clinical outcomes.
Outline
- How the Double “Ism” of Sexism and Heterosexism Creates lesbianphobia
- Trauma and Sense of Self Issues From Growing Up a Woman and Lesbian
- Self-Acceptance and Internalized Lesbianphobia
- Unique Challenges Regarding Relationships, Addictions, and Identity Development
- Navigate the power and challenges of lesbian friendships and communities
- Limitations of Research and Potential Risks
Target Audience
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Social Workers
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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07/01/2022
LGBTQIA2S+ Summit Roundtable
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07/01/2022
Two-Spirit Clients: Clinical Interventions for Culturally Competent Care
Gender- and sexual orientation-based violence at the hands of colonizers has been a lived experience for the Indigenous people of the North American continent since the invasion of 1492. Despite centuries of genocide and forced assimilation, a community of people now commonly referred to as Two-Spirit have survived.
This recording will examine the role of community in Two-Spirit survival narratives and offer interventions for working with Two-Spirit people and community in mental health, medical, substance abuse, social work, and school-based settings. You’ll learn new concepts, such as sexual sovereignty and erotic survivance as well as how to use culture as treatment and prevention.
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Objectives
- Assess and understanding of the history of Two-Spirit people and issues and concerns facing this marginalized community of the Native American population.
- Apply different approaches for working with the Two Spirit people including using culture as treatment and prevention.
- Utilize clinical interventions for working with the Two-Spirit people regarding therapy and education.
Outline
- Decolonizing and unsettling sexuality
- Historical Two-Spirit perspectives
- Contemporary Two-Spirit perspectives
- Two-Spirit Futurism
- Clinical and Educational Interventions
Target Audience
- Licensed Clinical/Mental Health Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Psychologists
- School Administrators
- Social Workers
- Addiction Professionals
- Case Managers
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05/09/2022
The Millennial Lovelink
Many millennials are choosing to ditch gender identifiers like male and female, and shed labels like single, taken, gay, or straight. They’re shucking them in favor of fluidity—the belief that one’s deeply personal sense of gender, sexuality, or in-relationship identity can be more elusive and shifting than previous generations acknowledged. We’ll explore how working with fluid millennial clients can be both enlightening and challenging for older therapists, especially when helping them navigate issues of intimacy, love, and sex.
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Objectives
- Analyze how millennials approach romantic love differently, including the challenge of committing to relationships despite the endless options of dating apps, and squaring desire for independence and self-discovery with commitment needs.
- Utilize the qualities that millennials most value in therapists, like directness and self-disclosure, and how to embody them.
- Utilize language used by millennials, which includes tinder, bumble, ghosting, benching, and breadcrumbing, to truly connect with clients.
Outline
Millennials approach love and sexuality differently compared to other age groups.
- Understand the challenge of committing to relationships
- Understand the challenge millenials face in the context of a desire for independence and commitment
Understand the how to build a therapeutic alliance with millennials
- Explore the qualities that millennials value in a therapist such as self-disclosure and directness
- Explore how to develop these qualities as a therapist
Learn the language of millennials
- Understand the distinctive language millennials speak
- Gain knowledge about the way millennials communicate in relationships
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Physicians
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Behavioral Health Professionals
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03/24/2018
Autism, LGBTQIA+, and The Intersectionality of Gender and Sexuality
Like autism, gender exists on a spectrum...
With the rise in clients seeking services related to gender identity, we know many are autistic. We also know gender identity and sexuality are more diverse among autistic individuals when compared to the allistic (non-autistic) population.
To best help your autistic clients looking for support related to their gender identity and sexuality, it’s imperative you understand how the two spectrums overlap.
Join Wenn Lawson, PhD, an autistic transgender psychologist as he guides you through the implications for gender and sexual development, diagnosis, as well as how to support this diverse population. This session explores these issues and more!
Program Information
Objectives
- Demonstrate the central tenants coexisting between autism, LGBTQIA+ and their intersectionality.
- Utilize analogies, research, and resources laid out in this session for purposes of client psychoeducation.
Outline
- Overlap Between Autism and Gender Diversity
- Intersectionality's Rarely Considered in Research
- ASD & Gender Identity
- ASD & Gender Dysphoria
- Mental Health Concerns
- Equity and Quality of Life in Autism & GD
Target Audience
- Addiction Professionals
- Psychologists
- Social workers
- Case Managers
- Licensed Clinical/Mental Health Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Occupational Therapists
- Physical Therapists
- Speech-Language Pathologists
- Teachers/School-Based Personnel
- Nursing Home/Assisted Living Administrators
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03/28/2022
Fostering Connection with Specific Interventions: Treating the LGBTQ+ Client Through Their Eating Disorder
Emerging research suggests that individuals who identify as LGBTQ+ may be at higher risk of experiencing body image concerns and disordered eating alongside barriers to appropriate treatment. This session focuses on understanding the challenges that LGBTQ+ individuals face so that we can create safer spaces that invite them to heal. We will review specific interventions that can help connect LGBTQ+ individuals to recovery in ways that are relevant to their journey.
Program Information
Objectives
- Distinguish at least 3 unique challenges experienced by LGBTQ+ individuals and their treatment implications.
- Respond to micro and macro aggressions in order to advocate for and create safer spaces for clients.
- Employ three family intervention strategies for LGBTQ+ clients with eating disorders to improve treatment outcomes.
Outline
- Cultivating safe and inclusive space for LGBTQ+ clients
- Integrating inclusive language
- Identifying and responding to micro aggressions
- Understanding and validating the impact of their lived experience on their body image, sense of self, and eating disorder(s)
- Navigate issues of gender identity, gender expression and sexuality with clients and why that’s important to body image concerns and eating disorder recovery
- Interventions for individual, group, and family work
- Individual: daily practices (body scans, mindfulness), identifying/externalizing narratives of systemic oppression
- Group: values identification, finding role models, art/creative strategies
- Family: address psychological distress of recovery for both client and family; remain aligned around recovery; reinforce and repair family connection
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Registered Dietitians & Dietetic Technicians
- Nurses
- Other mental health professionals
Copyright :
02/25/2022
Online Clinical Supervision: Best Practices for Every Clinician
Tele-supervision solves a lot of problems – particularly for licensees who don’t have access to high quality, affordable clinical supervisors, and even more so for clinicians who are seeking supervision within a specific specialty such as multicultural counseling or LGBTQ populations.
Join Rachel McCrickard, LMFT, founder of the first HIPAA-compliant video platform for providing clinical supervision, for this 1- hour recording highlighting best practices for distance supervision as well as the professional opportunities it presents. You’ll learn:
- How states are shifting licensure rules to allow online supervision
- A first look at recent research on the efficacy of tele-supervision
- Best practices for establishing an online clinical supervision presence.
- The challenges of using this emerging modality, including ethical implications
- And more!
You don’t want to miss the latest information on this growing trend in supervision – purchase today!
Program Information
Outline
- How states are shifting licensure rules to allow online supervision
- A first look at recent research on the efficacy of tele-supervision
- Best practices for establishing an online clinical supervision presence
- Review a sample Supervision Contract
Objectives
- Appraise recent research on the efficacy of tele-supervision
- Implement five best practices of delivering tele-supervision
- Determine where to find the rules and regulations relative to clinical supervision by state and/or professional board
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapists
- Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Case Managers
- Nurses
Copyright :
04/15/2020