Transgender and Gender-Fluid Clients: What Therapists Need to Know
A WORKSHOP SPONSORED BY GENDER WELLNESS OF LOS ANGELES & THE INSIGHT CENTER
MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS UNITE for this timely workshop, brought to you by Gender Wellness of Los Angeles and The Insight Center. It will offer therapists — of all disciplines — the knowledge that they may use to provide effective support, guidance, sensitivity, and information to transgender / gender-fluid / gender-nonbinary clients, their family, friends and co-workers. What would you do/say should you become the first person that a client, who identifies as such, comes out to?
*Discounts available for early registration (by 8/31) + students. Continuing education (CE) credits are available for MFTs / LCSWs / Professional Counselors.
** Webinar/video access
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At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Define the difference between gender and sexual orientation
- Articulate terminology specific to the transgender population
- Work empathically and affirmatively with the transgender population
- Discuss the impacts of transgender marginalization and oppression
- Interpret data that embodies the special challenges facing the transgender client
- Engage in informed discussion about where is the conversation is headed regarding the transgender experience