Transitioning in Treatment: Helping Clinicians Connect to their Transgender Clients

More people are feeling safer coming out as transgender than ever before. We are seeing more transgender clients in treatment than ever. So what do we do? When a client informs us they would like to transition or are in the midst of transitioning when they come to treatment, we may freeze. We may not know what to do and we may need help. This session is geared toward cisgender clinicians who may be working with transgender clients or will be working with transgender clients in the future (which is everyone). This session will be experiential in nature, will give clinicians a better understanding of themselves as it relates to their transgender clients, and will offer helpful hints to be more prepared and comfortable working with the trans population. If you are ready and willing to get up and experience gender, clinical work and your own bias, then this is the session for you.

Objectives:
• Acknowledge their own bias as it relates to gender.
• Apply activities learned in their own group/individual sessions.
• Discuss the topics of transitioning with their clients and coworkers.

Beck Gee-Cohen 
Owner/Consultant
BGC Consulting

Beck has created programming for LGBTQ + specific treatment programs, is on the Board of Directors for NALGAP (National Association of LGBTQ Addiction Professionals), and works closely with LGBTQ+ sober communities around the country. Beck has over 11 years of personal recovery and continues to address concerns of equality and acceptance of LGBTQ+ in sober communities. Beck is the owner/consultant of BGC Consulting, helping facilities become more affirming and knowledgeable about LGBTQ+ populations.

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