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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Clients: Clinical Issues and Treatment Strategies
Monday, August 17, 2020, 8:00 AM to Friday, August 21, 2020, 5:00 PM EDT
Category: CE Events: Adult Individuals

Join international speaker, author, and expert on LGBTQ issues Dr. Joe Kort as he equips you with the right tools and information to more effectively counsel your lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning clients and couples. Through case examples and plenty of humor, you will gain a better understanding of the modern LGBTQ culture, keep abreast of how younger clients are identifying in a more sexual and gender fluid way and learn to target the trauma associated with growing up in the closet and how minority stress afects one’s personality and mental health. You will learn specific strategies to treat the unique challenges your client may be facing, such as:

• internalized homophobia and LGTBQ shame

• non hetero-normative sexual behaviors and practices

• trauma and abuse from growing up LGBTQ: the difficult process

• helping clients through the stages of coming out

Dr. Kort will also help you avoid the common mistake of believing “a couple is a couple” and treating LGBTQ couples the same as their heterosexual counterparts. He will address the unique relationship dynamics of a same gendered couple and give you practical tools for their therapeutic progress. Many LGBTQ couples and individuals leave their straight therapists and hire a gay therapist due to a lack of information and education by the straight therapist. It’s not enough to be “LGBTQ friendly.” The fact is, even the best-intentioned therapists have some level of homophobia to overcome. From birth, heterosexist culture imprints us to think that heterosexuality is primary and that any other orientation is inferior. In this workshop, you will learn to be culturally competent with your LGBTQ clients and be able to help them around issues of sex, coming out, growing up LGBTQ, Bisexuality, Transgender, mixed orientation relationships, gender fluidity, and sexual fluidity. You will learn to avoid mislabeling a client and using terminology that may prove ofefnsive to them.

Hosted by Cape Cod Institute, Cape Cod Learning Network, LLC in Eastham, MA for 15 CEs. For more info, visit: www.cape.org/register.