NEAFAST Conferences & Trainings Events

Whether your work is individual, relational or family centered, all clinicians need to establish a level of competency in working with gender non-conforming/trans populations and have an understanding of the unique issues facing these populations.

This conference will create a space for those who work directly or indirectly with the folx of all genders to ask curious questions in a non-judgmental environment that supports clinicians at all levels of experience.

We will explore together how to engage in larger political and social systems, address the politicism of this work while acknowledging our in-office limitations, and identify ways in which what is legal is not always ethical. 

NEAFAST 2026 "SPARK" Groups

NEAFAST is the professional home for family and systemic therapists in Massachusetts and surrounding states. As such, a big focus of our work is supporting clinicians in their practice. Check out our SPARK (Supporting Peers and Refining Knowledge) groups, which are FREE for NEAFAST members, but open to all regardless of license or membership status and offer the option of Continuing Education Units.

• When the Manosphere Invades Therapy: Working with Today’s Lost Boys and Men with Michael Lynch, LMFT.

• Trans Sex: Conversations in Sex Therapy with Jordon Anderson, LICSW/CST

• When a Marriage Ends: Understanding and Treating Clients Facing Divorce, with Ellen Holtzman, PsyD

Our Training and Education Committee is hard at work developing more programs for the Spring and Fall of '26 . Check back to this page or sign up for our newsletter to hear about them when they are announced.