Meet
your LGBTQ+ Affirming Care Course Experts
Hayden Dawes, LCSW, LCAS, has been a professional public
speaker
and consultant since 2014. He provides dynamic continuing education
seminars on
race and racism within mental health practice and the importance of
self-tending
practices while working in mental health and healthcare settings. After
years of
providing mental health treatment to diverse populations in various
settings,
including inpatient, outpatient, and the community, Dawes decided to
pursue a
PhD at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of social work, where he teaches
research and
practice courses. His research interest primarily lies in improving
mental
health treatment for people of color and LGBTQIA+ individuals. He
currently has
a private practice, Courage(Inside)Out, PLLC, to serve this
population.
Regarding leadership, he has been on the board of directors and vice
president
of the North Carolina Society for Clinical Social Work. Hayden currently
serves
on the executive council of the American Academy of Psychotherapists. In
2020,
Hayden became a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – Health Policy
Research
Scholar, a competitive, prestigious nationwide fellowship to support the
next
generation of scholars committed to creating health equity. When not
reading,
writing, conducting research, or practicing therapy, Hayden enjoys
mindless
scrolling on Instagram or Twitter. He’s also picked up another
hobby of
doing stand-up comedy.
Alex Iantaffi, PhD,
MS, SEP,
CST, LMFT (they/them) is a family therapist, WPATH certified
gender
specialist, AASECT certified sex therapist, Somatic Experiencing®
practitioner,
clinical supervisor and author. Alex is a founding member and past chair of
the
Trans and Queer Interest Network of the American Association for Marriage
and Family
Therapy (AAMFT) and current president of the Minnesota Association for
Marriage and
Family Therapy (MAMFT). They have researched, presented and published
extensively on
gender, disability, sexuality, relationships, and HIV. They are a
transmasculine,
nonbinary, bi-queer, polyamorous, disabled, Italian immigrant and parent who
has
been living on Dakota and Anishinaabe territories, currently known as
Minnesota
since 2008. Alex is the author of award-winning book
Gender Trauma:
Healing
Cultural, Social, and Historical Gendered Trauma and co-author of
the books
How to Understand Your Gender: A Practical Guide for Exploring Who You
Are, Life
Isn’t Binary, How to Understand Your Sexuality, and
Hell
Yeah
Self-Care: A Trauma-Informed Workbook. They also host the podcast
Gender
Stories. You can find out more about them at
www.alexiantaffi.com or follow
them on
Twitter and Instagram @xtaffi.
Lexi Mulee, LMHC,
C-DBT, founder of Wise Mind Counseling specializes in
Dialectical
Behavioral Therapy and applies it in her work with populations with
borderline
personality disorder, eating disorders, and substance use disorders, more
specifically within the LGBTQ youth community. Lexi got her undergraduate
degree at
Hofstra University and pursued her graduate degree at the University of
Miami. Lexi
has been in the field for over 10 years and works extensively with each
client to
ensure their unique goals are being met. Having both experiences working at
the
inpatient level of care and the outpatient level of care, Lexi works
uniquely with
each client to ensure that their treatment is never one size fits all, but
rather
personalized for each individual’s needs and strengths. Lexi
understands that
navigating the world in 2024 as a member of the LGBTQIA community comes with
its
unique set of challenges and hurdles, and strives to create a safe space for
clients
to explore themselves, their individualized challenges and hurdles, and
strives to
create a safe space for clients to explore themselves, their individualized
challenges, and their newfound skills to live a more effective, and thriving
life!
Hi there – I am Dr.
Brendan J
Dunlop (he/him) and I am a Principal Clinical Psychologist.
I currently work part time for an NHS Trust in the Northwest of England. In
addition, I work part time as the Deputy Director for Research and Clinical
Lecturer
in Clinical Psychology on the ClinPsyD clinical psychologist training
programme at
The University of Manchester, in England. I am also Associate Editor for the
academic journal Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and
Practice.
I completed my Bachelor of Science undergraduate degree in Psychology and
Language
Sciences at University College London, and my Doctorate in Clinical
Psychology at
The University of Manchester. I am also a Fellow of the Higher Education
Academy
(FHEA).
I have now either studied or worked in mental health care for 11 years. This
has
included work within prisons and secure forensic mental health care, with
children
and young people, with those that have had a brain injury or a stroke, with
people
that have intellectual disabilities, with people living with HIV, and adults
that
have severe and enduring mental health difficulties.
Nanette
Lavoie-Vaughan,
CDCP, ANPC-C, DNP, has over 30 years of experience in the
geriatric
field. Previously she has worked as a nurse practitioner, director of
nursing, and
staff nurse across various settings as she has focused in on her specialty
of
geriatric/dementia care. Nanette shared her knowledge with others as a
clinical
assistant professor at East Carolina University College of Nursing, a
clinical
instructor at UNCG and an adjunct faculty member at Vanderbilt University
School of
Nursing. Nanette has presented nationally and internationally on dementia,
pain
management, caregiver issues, and topics specific to long-term care.
She is the author of Eldercare: The Comprehensive Guide to
Caregiving and a
new evidence-based clinical practice guideline for the non-pharmacological
management of behavioral problems in dementia. Her expertise and research
are
recognized through published work in Clinics of North America and in book
chapters
and online continuing education modules. Nanette also serves as an expert
witness
for several law firms and was a Sigma Theta Tau Faculty Mentor.
Her educational accomplishments include an MSN from Florida State
University, a DNP
from Vanderbilt University and a postdoctoral fellowship in ethnogeriatrics
at
Stanford University.
Margaret L. Conley,
LCSW,
MDiv, (She/Her/Hers), is the Executive Director of MLC
Consulting, LLC,
and the President of Mending Life Concepts Empowerment Group, Inc. She is a
Licensed
Clinical Social worker in Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee where she provides
crisis
services and trauma-focused clinical therapy. Margaret is trained as a
trauma
therapist in Internal Family Systems, Somatic Experiencing, Brainspotting,
EMDR, and
Adlerian Play Therapy. Margaret is a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator
and
LEGO® Serious Play® Facilitator. Margaret is a Certified Mental
Health First
Aid Instructor endorsed by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing.
Margaret produced an evidence-based model which is a clinically aligned
theological
method designed for use by clergy, academics, and clinicians to help lead
the
conversation around Faith-Based Trauma in individual and community settings.
She is
the founder of Healthy and Holy® Conversations and the producer of the
Healthy
& Holy® Summit.
Margaret received her Bachelor of Art focused on Sociology and Anthropology
with a
concentration in child welfare services from Valdosta State University. She
received
her Master of Social Work degree from Clark Atlanta University in 2009.
Margaret
completed her Master of Divinity from the Interdenominational Theological
Center in
2013.
Lucie Fielding, PhD,
MA,
LMHC, (she/they) is a white, neurodivergent queer, trans
misogyny
affected (TMA) femme, and a therapist practicing in Virginia and Washington
(on
Monacan lands and unceded Duwamish territory, respectively). They specialize
in sex
therapy, kink-knowledgeable therapy, 2SLGBTQIA-knowledgeable therapy, sex
work-affirming therapy; and they work from the narrative, imaginal, and
somatic
frameworks that honor the (intergenerational) wisdom of the body, promote
community-care, and support empowered embodied eroticism. She holds an MA in
Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute (2018) and a PhD in
French
from Northwestern University (2008), specializing in erotic literature.
Their
background in literature attunes them to the ways that cultural scripts
inscribe
themselves on our bodies and inform our embodied erotic lives. In addition
to being
a therapist, Lucie is a sex educator who has facilitated workshops for a
range of
groups, organizations, universities, and agencies. They are the author of
Trans
Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments
(2021), which was awarded an AASECT BookAward (Lammy) in the
Transgender-Nonfiction category. You can find out more about Lucie at
luciefielding.com or follow them on Instagram (@sexbeyondbinaries).
Deb Coolhart, PhD,
LMFT, is a private practice clinician and an assistant
professor in the
Marriage and Family Therapy Department at Syracuse University. She has been
doing
therapy with LGBTQ youth and their families for nearly 20 years. She created
the
Transgender Treatment Team in Syracuse University’s Couple and Family
Therapy
Center, where she trains and supervises master’s students to work with
transgender people and their families.
Dr. Coolhart has several publications on clinical work with LGBTQ youth. Her
recent
work has focused on transgender youth and their families. She has developed
a tool
for assessing youths’ and families’ readiness for gender
transition
treatments, published in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy.
She has
also published multiple manuscripts on supporting transgender youth and
families in
therapy and advocating for trans-affirmative school environments. Recently,
she
co-authored a book, The Gender Quest Workbook: Guide for Teens and Young
Adults
Exploring Gender Identity. Additionally, Dr. Coolhart has conducted
research on transgender people and their family relationships and the
experiences of
LGBTQ homeless youth.
Tristan Martin, PhD,
LMFT, is a private practice sexuality/gender therapist and
professor in
Syracuse, New York. He utilizes an affirmative and sex positive stance to
connect
and create change. Clinically he provides support for gender, sexual, erotic
and
relationally diverse communities, with specialization in supporting gender
transition for youth and adults. Dr. Martin has presented at multiple
national
conferences and contributed publications to the field of family therapy on
transgender issues.
