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Beyond Tolerance: Developing Cultural Competency with LGBTQ Clients and Family Systems

This introductory to advanced course will equip clinicians with clinical and sociological understanding of the lived experience of LGBTQ communities and family systems; and the crisis in health disparities and mental health services for this minority. Models of identity development and affirmative therapy for queer couples and families will be utilized as well as best practices for affirmative therapy with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender clients, couples, and family systems. Common countertransference and transference concerns will also be addressed. This course will challenge clinicians to examine their personal and professional frameworks related to gender, sexuality, and the intersections of race, religion, and power; in order to enhance their knowledge and skills when working with LGBTQ populations and family members of. Participants will gain knowledge of the requisite knowledge, skills, and attitudes associated with culturally competent services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer adults, teens, couples and family systems.

Speaking Out Topics Include

• Comprehensive introduction to Cultural Competency with LGBTQ Family Systems
• Families in Transition: Clinical Issues and Interventions
• Gender Identity 101
• Affirmative Therapy with Transgender Clients
• Cultural Complexities in Identity Development and integration for LGBTQ Clients
• Mental Health & Minority Stress
• Transference & Countertransference Challenges
• Spiritual Trauma and Integration

Contact Lisa for specialized training for your agency or institution.

I love teaching! Thank you to these organizations who have invited me to train their students, teachers, therapists, and staff in LGBTQ Affirmative Therapy:

• Gender Spectrum
• Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy Association
• Pepperdine University
• Cal State Fullerton Student Services
• Hoag Community Clinic
• Chapman University Clinical Training
• Seventh Day Adventist Kinship Meeting
• American Family Therapy Academy
• OC Chapter of CAMFT
• LA Chapter of CAMFT
• CAMFT State Conference
• CSP of Orange County

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