Clinical Considerations: Working with Queer & Trans Clients

Clinical Considerations: Working with Queer & Trans Clients

Soleil Psychotherapy is pleased to offer the below CE training in collaboration with Emerge Psychology Group.

Workshop Description:

In 2023, approximately 7.6% of adults in America identified themselves as queer. Another 1.2%  as Trans. While it is suspected that that number is under-reported due to ongoing  stigmatization, this leads to an increased need for clinical competency in working with queer  and trans clients. To create and hold space for queer clients to further understand themselves,  we as clinicians, must work to ethically empower. This includes but is not limited to  understanding our unconscious biases, the role which medical institutions play in the care our  clients receive, as well as which theoretical approaches best support our client’s visions of  themselves. Through this workshop, we hope to provide an authentic, personal, and BIPOC  approach to working with queer and trans clients.

Course Objectives:

• Working with queer and trans identifying clients that moves them towards their vision  empowerment and safety in self-expression that means checking our own biases • Developing clients’ understanding of how their concept of sex, gender role and sexuality  in their own lives is influenced by identity formation and awareness 

• Providing an evaluation of the role of medical institutions in gender affirming care and  what is required of us as clinicians

• Supporting clients through intentional theoretical approaches in session
• Understanding the collective impact this individual identity work can have

Audience:

• Professional Counselors
• Social Workers
• Subtance Use Counselors
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Psychologists

Date and Time:

• Friday, January 24th, 2025: 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM CDT

Location:

This workshop will be held virtually, via Zoom. Link will be sent out to all registrants prior to the email. 

Presenters:

Ashley Lagrange, LPC (They/Them) 

Ashley M. Lagrange is a Non-binary, Fat, Black, Dominican-American Femme therapist with a  passion for helping folks develop and navigate Liberatory practices. They have worked with  adults and teens who seek a space to explore their identities and impact on the world at large.  Ashley is passionate about the collective Liberation of all LGBTQIA+ identifying folks through  the power of radical vulnerability, self-reflection, and community connection. They seek to guide  folks through their emotional processing through a collective lens that honors individual  experience. Through writing and collage art, Ashley brings their personal interests within the  space to help clients develop or evolve their tools for communication. They are committed to  providing community centered, trauma informed care with an emphasis on harm reduction, for  QTBIPoC folks working through cycle breaking, identity development, or the processing of past  events. Ashley has worked with folks on topics of political consciousness, gender identity, grief,  attachment, sex/uality and more. Having an anti-oppressive, anti-colonial approach, and  experience in Grassroots Mental Health organizing and training in somatic approaches to  processing such as EMDR and Brainspotting, Ashley utilizes their academic and lived  experiences, political education, and therapeutic orientations to collaborate with clients. The  intention is always in making a space where clients can be their most authentic selves. In this  space, there is a compassionate yet challenging process of planting the seeds that will blossom  in the clients’ day to day life, through their interpersonal connections and self-actualization.

Continuing Education Hours:

This program is recognized as providing 1.5 CE Hours for:
• LPC/LCPC (IDFPR license # 197.000360)
• LSW/LCSW (IDFPR license # 159.001584)
• Licensed Psychologist (IDFPR license # 268.000146)