What You’ll Learn:

The Impact of Trauma on LGBTQIA+ Clients

  • Understand how trauma, minority stress, and systemic oppression shape mental health.

  • Explore common challenges:

    • Relationship issues

    • Internalized stigma

    • Isolation and alienation

    • Complex trauma and minority stress

    • Gender and sexuality affirmation

    • Navigating gender nonconformity

    • Intersectionality - with neurodiversity., race, disability, etc

Schema Therapy-Informed Approaches

  • Practical tools for addressing schemas tied to disconnection, rejection, and shame.

  • Techniques like imagery rescripting and limited reparenting to meet unmet emotional needs.

Culturally Affirming Care

  • Strategies for creating spaces that celebrate LGBTQIA+ identities.

  • Address systemic oppression and societal bias in therapy.