Beyond Affirmative Care: Effective Psychotherapy with LGBTQIA+ Clients

Beyond affirmative care is a consultation group for clinicians wishing to develop the knowledge, attitudes, skills, and comfort level needed to work effectively with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender clients.

Clinicians will learn to approach working with LGBTQIA+ clients through multidimensional models of sexual orientation and gender.

  • Stigmatization
  • Intersections of multiple identities
  • Career-related experiences
  • Nontraditional relationship forms
  • Issues relating to spirituality
  • Health disparities impacting communities

Group members will be invited to evaluate their own attitudes and biases that inevitably impact the therapeutic relationship. This group aims to create a non-judgmental space in which to provide relevant resources and share dialogue.

Sign up now for group sessions starting in January 2025.

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The cost is $75 per group and a three-month commitment is requested

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