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$109Transference/Countertransference dynamics with LGBTQIA+ clients
Presenter: Cadyn Cathers, PsyD
Date/Time: April 2, 2023
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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$39Clinical Approaches to Centering Trans Sexual Pleasure
Presenter: Damon Constantinides, PhD, LCSW
Recorded Webinar
2 CEs
Sexuality and sexual pleasure are important parts of transgender and non-binary client’s lives. Providing holistic mental health care includes conversations about sexual health, sexual identity, sexual behavior, and bodies.
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$39Mono-Poly Relationships in Therapy
Presenter: Stephanie M. Sullivan, MS, LMFT
Recorded Webinar
2 CEs
Relationships in which one person is monogamous and another person is polyamorous – commonly referred to as mono-poly relationships – are often deemed to be one of the most difficult relationship configurations possible.
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$49Psychodynamic Therapy with Transgender & Nonbinary Teenagers
Presenter: Melissa Dellens, MA
Recorded Webinar
3 CEs
Working with teenagers and their families can be complicated by conflicts of coming out and making sense of diverse gender identities. Object relations theories can help contain and make meaning of family and individual stressors related to coming out and identity development.
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$119Suicide Prevention in LGBTQIA+ Clients
Presenter: Cadyn Cathers, PsyD
NEW DATE: May 5, 2023
10:00-5:30 pm Pacific
6 CEs
Suicide is one of the leading causes of death in the United States, but suicide rates vary by sexuality, gender, age, race/ethnicity, and a number of other factors. For example, LGBTQIA+ youth have higher rates of suicidal thoughts and behaviors than their cisgender heterosexual counterparts.
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$29WPATH Standards of Care 8 for Mental Health Professionals
Presenter: Cadyn Cathers, PsyD
Recorded Webinar
2 CEs
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) is an interdisciplinary professional organization which promotes evidenced-based care, education, research, and public policy related to transgender health. WPATH has been publishing standards of care since 1979 and published the latest version (SOC-8) in Fall 2022.
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$29Fundamentals of LGBTQIA+ Affirmative Therapy
Presenter: Cadyn Cathers, PsyD
2 CEs
Recorded Webinar
While many clinicians consider themselves LGBTQIA+-friendly, well-intentioned clinicians can create inadvertent harm without proper training in LGBTQIA+ affirmative psychotherapy.
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$45Reconceptualizing Self-Care for Therapists
Presenter: Teresa M. Theophano, LCSW
Recorded Webinar
1.5 CEs
What does the overused term “self-care” actually mean for mental health care providers? How can suggesting personal self-care as a remedy for experiences of vicarious trauma and the threat of burnout miss the mark, especially during the era of COVID, racial justice uprisings, and political anxiety?
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$150Gender Minority Stress in Adolescence
Presenter: Melissa Dellens, MA, AMFT
6 CEs
Recorded Webinar
Gender dysphoria in teenagers can be complicated by unaccepting parents and family, lack of access to affirming medical care, and anxieties about the cultural and political conversations directed toward transgender and nonbinary (TGNB) identities.
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$150LGBTQIA+ Addictions
Presenter: Asher Hung, MA, AMFT
6 CEs
Recorded Webinar
LGBTQIA+ addiction is disproportionately prevalent and unique from endosex-hetero-cisgender addictions. Destructive behaviors in the LGBTQIA+ population range from alcohol and substance abuse to disordered eating, sex/love/abuse/porn addiction, and even high-risk or criminal behaviors.
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$90Psychodynamic Therapy & Polyamory
Presenter: Ryan G. Witherspoon, Ph.D.
3 CEs
Recorded Webinar
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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$45Affirmative Care for LGBTQ+ Older Adults
Presenter: Teresa M. Theophano, LCSW
1.5 CEs
Recorded Webinar
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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$60LGBTQ Health
Presenter: Chase Cates, DO MPH
2 CEs
Recorded Webinar
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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$60Shame Resilience and Trans Liberation
Presenter: addyson tucker, PsyD
2 CEs
Recorded Webinar
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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$50Working Alliance with Transgender and Gender Nonbinary Clients
Presenter: Cadyn Cathers, PsyD
2 CEs
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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$90Autistic-Affirmative Therapy for Allistic Providers
Presenter: Melissa Dellens, MA, AMFT
3 CEs
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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$90Spiritual Resilience with Christian LGBT Clients
Presenter: Melissa Dellens, MA, AMFT
3 CEs
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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$240Psychological Preparation for Medical Transition
Presenter: Cadyn Cathers, PsyD
12 CEs
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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$100Identity Development around Sexuality, Gender, and Relationships
Cadyn Cathers, PsyD
5 CEs
Recorded Webinar
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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$150Power Dynamics in the Facilitating Environment
Melissa Dellens, MA
6 CEs
Recorded Webinar
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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$60The Black Gay Community and Crystal Meth
Jerry St. Louis, LGSW
2 CEs
Recorded Webinar
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).
