Gender Care and Consultation
You deserve a space where your gender journey is respected, supported, truly seen . . . and never rushed. Whether you're exploring possibilities of gender expression, renegotiating your gender identity, navigating transition, breaking the confines of gender, or simply seeking someone who understands, I'm here to walk thoughtfully alongside you. We offer compassionate, affirming care for individuals of all genders – because your truth matters, and everyone deserves the freedom to explore and embrace who they are.
Professional Trainings in Gender Care
Can You Both Affirm and Facilitate Exploration? Yes.
Are you a clinician who wants to offer compassionate, affirming care to gender-diverse clients, but also feels the importance of holding space for gender exploration? Have you ever felt the ethical urgency of affirming a client's gender identity while also wrestling with concerns that affirmation alone might limit evolving gender creativity? Or that, sometimes, focusing on gender distracts from other important areas of exploration and healing? You are not alone.
With over 20 years of experience teaching Gender Studies in university settings, extensive clinical experience with gender diverse populations, and experience leading trainings for mental health practitioners on gender care and exploration, I provide guidance tailored to the challenges providers face when balancing the ethical urgency and clinical good sense of affirmation with interest in holding space for broad-ranging exploration.
These trainings help you:
- • Affirm and validate your clients' lived gender experiences
- • Facilitate safe, nonjudgmental exploration of gender identity and expression
- • Understand the developmental and social contexts of gender diversity
- • Integrate trauma-informed and intersectional approaches
- • Reflect on your own biases and clinical stance
- • Build therapeutic alliances rooted in trust, respect, and collaboration
- • Develop flexible, client-centered care plans that honor individual journeys
Format Options:
- • Interactive live workshops (virtual or in-person)
- • Self-paced courses for busy providers
- • Customized team trainings for clinical settings
Designed for therapists, counselors, medical providers, social workers, and allied professionals who want to deepen their ability to engage human complexity with care. Trainings are grounded in current research, lived experience, and intersectional frameworks. They are designed to help providers offer ethical, trauma-informed, and affirming support to transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse individuals across the lifespan.
Training Topics May Include:
- • What is gender?
- • Gender identity and expression
- • Terminology best practices
- • Gender development across the lifespan
- • Supporting clients through social and medical transitions
- • Creating inclusive and affirming therapeutic spaces
- • Working with families, youth, and systems
- • Addressing clinician bias and decolonizing clinical practice
- • Case consultation and ethical decision-making
These trainings are experiential, critically informed, and always responsive to the needs and questions of participants.
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