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$30The 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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$75Fighting 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.
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$30Cognitive Hypnotherapy with Black Gay Men
Muria Nisbett, LCSW
1.5 CEs Available
Homestudy
Cognitive hypnotherapy is an innovative, evidence-based multimodal treatment that can be used to address a myriad of mental health issues. This modality incorporates techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), hypnotherapy, and mindfulness. Black* gay men have long faced discrimination, rejection, fear, violence and revictimization, religious intolerance, economic and criminal injustice.
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$45Gender Minority Stress and Resilience in Transgender and Gender Nonbinary Clients
addyson tucker, PsyD
1.5 CEs Available
Homestudy
Though clinicians are expanding their competence and knowledge for providing gender affirming care, there are still gaps in the training and research for working with trans and gender nonbinary (TGNB) individuals. Many TGNB individuals experience oppression and microaggressions regularly, which has significant physical, emotional, and cognitive consequences (Nadal et al., 2014).
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$45Helping Transgender and Gender Nonbinary Young Adults Develop Self-Compassion
addyson tucker, PsyD
1.5 CEs Available
Homestudy
Self-compassion is the act of “relating to oneself with care and support when we suffer”. Though little self-compassion research has explicitly focused on trans and gender nonbinary (TGNB) participants, research has shown significant benefit of strengthening self-compassion to increase well-being and the relationship with one’s body as well as building resilience to effectively manage adverse experiences and emotional vulnerability.
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$75Feminist Structural Family Therapy with Polyamorous Clients
Stephanie M. Sullivan, M.S., LLMFT and John Wall, MS, ALMFT
2.5 CEs
Homestudy
Even when therapists do accept a polyamorous client’s relationship style, they may not know how to apply therapeutic theories to working with the polyamorous relationship. Current family therapy approaches are not easily adaptable to address the needs of clients in polyamorous relationships. Current family therapy approaches are not easily adaptable to address the needs of clients in polyamorous relationships.
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$90Multiplicities of Desire: Working with the Intersection of Bisexuality and Polyamory
Stephanie M. Sullivan, M.S., LLMFT
3 CEs
Homestudy
Bisexuality can have multiple meanings, but will be defined here as the potential to be attracted to people of more than one sex or gender, either romantically, sexually, or both. Therapists who are working with a client who is bisexual in the polyamorous community may have to consider how their client’s bisexuality impacts them therapeutically.
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$120Healing Power of Open Relationships
Kathy Slaughter, LCSW
4 CEs
Homestudy
Open relationships offer unique and perhaps unexpected protective factors and opportunities to heal from trauma. Working with trauma survivors who engage in open relationships challenges our best ideas about healthy relationships. Becoming a trauma-informed, consensual nonmonogamy affirmative therapist requires understanding how trauma impacts neural development, self-regulation, attachment styles, and interpersonal relationship skills.
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$90Polyamorous Clients in Therapy: What You Didn’t Know You Needed to Know
Stephanie M. Sullivan, M.S., LLMFT
3 CEs
Recorded Edited Video
Consensual non-monogamy is a relationship style in which all individuals within the relationship agree to not being monogamous, and all individuals involved in the relationship are aware that it is not a monogamous relationship. Polyamory is a type of consensual non-monogamy in which people are able to be in committed, long term, intimate relationships with more than one person.
