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$130
Transference/Countertransference dynamics with LGBTQIA+ clients
Presenter: Cadyn Cathers, PsyD
Date/Time: September 18, 2022; 10:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific; 2 15-minute break + 1-hour lunch
5 CEs
The transference/countertransference dynamics between the therapist and the client are complex. The unique experiences lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or nonbinary, queer, intersex, or asexual (LGBTQIA+) clients have surrounding gender and sexuality can add additional layers of complexity to therapeutic dynamics.
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$90
Psychodynamic Therapy & Polyamory
Presenter: Ryan G. Witherspoon, Ph.D.
Date: August 21, 2022
CEs: 3
1:00p-4:00p Pacific
Consensually non monogamous (CNM) and polyamorous relationships challenge deeply embedded and often implicit cultural norms involving monogamy. This cultural universalization of monogamy, dubbed “mononormativity,” pervades how romantic and sexual relationships are consciously and unconsciously experienced, organized, and therapeutically conceptualized.
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$45
Affirmative Care for LGBTQ+ Older Adults
Presenter: Teresa M. Theophano, LCSW
Date: August 7, 2022
CEs: 1.5
9:00-10:30 Pacific
How do principles of healthy aging as well as SOGI- (sexual orientation and gender identity) related historical trauma impact LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) older people? As the US population ages, it is vital for therapists to learn about current best practices in affirmative mental health care for LGBTQ+ older adults.
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$60
LGBTQ Health
Presenter: Chase Cates, DO MPH
Date: July 28, 2022
CEs: 2
4:30p-6:30p Pacific
Routine and preventative medical care is essential to good health. The ability for mental health providers to rule out any medical concerns early in treatment allows for more accurate mental health diagnoses. LGBTQ+ people delay and avoid medical health care at higher rates than their cisgender and heterosexual counterparts due to medical discrimination, access to medical insurance, and stigma in the community based on hearing about another person’s negative experience.
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$60
Shame Resilience and Trans Liberation
Presenter: addyson tucker, PsyD
Date: July 14, 2022
CEs: 2
1:30p-3:30p Pacific
Trans-negative messages can feel like an emotional roller coaster from one loop of trans people being non-existent to the other of them being ‘not trans enough’ unless they fill certain stereotypes and ideals. Participants will learn ways to support their two-spirit /transgender /nonbinary (2STGNB) clients to develop self-compassion & shame resilience through a lens of trans/gender liberation (Singh, 2016) and radical healing (French et al., 2019).
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$50
Working Alliance with Transgender and Gender Nonbinary Clients
Presenter: Cadyn Cathers, PsyD
CE hours: 2
Recorded Webinar
Transgender and nonbinary people seek out therapy at higher rates than cisgender people, but frequently report that they struggle to find an affirmative therapist (Singh & dickey, 2017). The working alliance, also called the therapeutic alliance, is one of the most important factors in predicting positive therapeutic outcomes (Krause et al., 2011).
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$90
Autistic-Affirmative Therapy for Allistic Providers
Presenter: Melissa Dellens, MA, AMFT
CE hours: 3
Recorded Webinar
An Allistic person is someone who is not Autistic. An Allistic therapist may struggle to make connections with an Autistic client. What does it feel like to share space, time, and conversation with another person? When we fold in the complexities of Autism we have the opportunity to experience so much more sensory and non-verbal information. This can further impact assumptions and beliefs about an Autistic person’s sexuality or gender experience.
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$90
Spiritual Resilience with Christian LGBT Clients
Presenter: Melissa Dellens, MA, AMFT
CE Hours: 3 hours
Recorded Webinar
Nearly half of LGBT adults in the United States are religious, of which approximately three million identify as Protestant or Catholic (Williams Institute, 2020). Many LGBT youth raised with conservative religious face higher rates of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse than their cisgender and heterosexual peers (Gibbs & Goldbach, 2015). Cultural conflicts between sexuality, gender, and religion are deep, and create profound conflicts for religious people in gender and sexuality expansive communities.
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$240
Psychological Preparation for Medical Transition
Presenter: Cadyn Cathers, PsyD
CE Hours: 12 hours
Recorded Webinar
Transition is a process by which transgender and gender non-binary (TGNB) people align their gender expression in social, legal, and bodily dimensions to gain gender congruence. Medical transition can include hormones, medical procedures, and/or surgical interventions.
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$100
Identity Development around Sexuality, Gender, and Relationships
Presenter: Cadyn Cathers, PsyD
Recorded Webinar
5 CEs
Identity formation is a key developmental process for all individuals, but has special significance to those developing LGBTQIA+, consensually non-monogamous (CNM), or kink identities. A lack of coherent identity can impact a person’s relationships, mood, and occupation in a variety of ways.
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$150
Power Dynamics in the Facilitating Environment
Melissa Dellens, MA
6CEs
Community psychology emerged in reaction to clinical psychotherapy; with a fervent belief that if mental health problems are related to the misuse of power at systemic and institutional levels then individual psychotherapy is not the answer. Community psychology believes interventions in a dyadic relationship do not begin to meet the greater unmet needs of the collective. We will explore this assertion from a perspective of psychodynamically-informed psychotherapy.
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$60
The Black Gay Community and Crystal Meth
Jerry St. Louis, LGSW
2 CEs
Methamphetamine, also known as crystal meth or Tina, has been a health concern for the LGBTQ+ community since the late 1990s. In most recent studies, researcher are seeing an increase in use in the Black/African American Gay community (Secret, 2015).
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$90
Fundamentals of Kink
Elyssa Helfer, MA, LMFT
Recorded Webinar
3 CEs
Many psychotherapists are ill equipped to work with kink-identified and kink-practicing individuals, but it is vital for mental health clinicians to understand the complexity and nuance within kink communities. Given the high rates of individuals integrating kink practices and activities into their erotic lives, the need for relevant education is paramount.
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$60
Working with LGBTQ Veterans
Zander Keig, LCSW
2 CEs
When working with sexual and gender minority veterans, it helps to understand military culture and the active-duty experience. For example, the experience of a lesbian serving prior to the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Don’t Pursue (repealed in 2011) in the US Army is vastly different from a trans female serving under the current Department of Defense Open Transgender Service Policy (2016) in the US Navy.
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$75
Eating Disorders and Diet Culture: Inclusive Care for Trans Communities
Sand Chang, PhD
2.5 CEs
Homestudy
Eating disorders do not discriminate across culture, gender, or socioeconomic status, yet eating disorders assessment and treatment approaches are typically geared toward what has long been considered a “typical” client with an eating disorder: white, heterosexual, endosex, cisgender, college educated women. These stereotypes and assumptions create enormous barriers for trans people, who are eight times more likely to be diagnosed with eating disorders than cisgender people.
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$10
Radical Crafting with Queer Clinicians: Self-care, Healing and Activism
Mikey Anderson, MA, LPC
No CEs
Homestudy
We are in a moment in history where collective action and radical artmaking is at the forefront of our LGBTQIA+ movement in supporting Black Queer lives, whose experiences continue to be marginalized and invisibilized. We will be Centering our craft workshop on fiber crafting and activism by using embroidery to engage in a self-reflective, intersectional exploration of our Queer experiences as clinicians, ultimately proposing the practice of Craftivism (Greer) is a political act to radicalize Queer clinicians.
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$140
Trauma-Informed Yoga Therapy for LGBTQIA+ Clients
Katie Ziskind LMFT, RYT500
4.5 CEs
Homestudy
LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, etc.) clients are subject to minority stressors, which are often experienced as trauma. An evidence-based practice that can address the effects of this is yoga therapy, which involves mind, body, and spirit, and entails mindfulness, movement, and healing touch to provide traumatized clients with a sense of control.
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$20
From a Distance: Navigating Polyamory During a Pandemic
Esther Benoit, PhD, LPC
1 CE
Homestudy
Times of stress and transition can amplify dynamics within relationships, particularly affecting complex relationship structures like polyamorous ones. This course will explore how clinicians can support their polyamorous clients through uncertain times, and how polyamorous partners can support each other to create connection in times of uncertainty.
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$45
HIV/AIDS Retraumatization during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Samuel Donath, MS
3 CEs
Homestudy
Older LGBTQIA+ individuals who survived the AIDS crisis face possible re-traumatization due to the current international COVID-19 health crisis. Helping these community members during this unique period in history presents specific clinical challenges. Special consideration and education is needed for mental health professionals to work competently with this population throughout the pandemic.
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$30
The Psychological Impact of Suppressing Kink Identity
Elyssa Helfer, MA, LMFT
2 CEs
Homestudy
The world of kink exists right under our noses. From dungeons to muches, kinky folks are finding ways to express their identities within a system that encourages secrecy. To fully affirm our clients, it is imperative that we understand who they are, what they enjoy and how their desires play out in their lives.
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$75
Fighting without Fighting: DBT Skills for Addressing Microaggressions
Rachel Jones, M.A.
2.5 CEs
Homestudy
Microaggressions exist in the form of jokes, insults, biases, questions, and comments. They are often casual and can even be well-intended. On a day-to-day basis, microaggressions are directed toward people of color, women, gender diverse individuals, LGBTQIA+ individuals, relationship expansive individuals, and other people of marginalized groups or communities outside of the cultural norm.