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$45.00Reconceptualizing Self-Care for Therapists
Presenter: Teresa M. Theophano, LCSW
Date/Time: January 15, 2023 9:00-10:30 Pacific
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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$150.00Gender Minority Stress in Adolescence
Presenter: Melissa Dellens, MA, AMFT
Date/Time: November 6, 2022 10:00 am – 5:30pm Pacific; 2 15-minute breaks + 1-hour lunch
6 CEs
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
Date/Time: October 9, 2022 10:00 am -5:30 pm Pacific; 2 15-minute breaks + 1-hour lunch
6 CEs
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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$130Transference/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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$90Psychodynamic 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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$45Affirmative 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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$60LGBTQ 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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$60Shame Resilience and Trans Liberation
Presenter: addyson tucker, PsyD
CEs: 2
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
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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$90Autistic-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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$90Spiritual 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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$240Psychological 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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$100Identity 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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$150Power 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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$60The 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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$90Fundamentals 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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$60Working 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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$75Eating 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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$10Radical 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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$140Trauma-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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$20From 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.
