Gender-focused
Consulting & TrainingsINDIVIDUAL CONSULTING
For Therapists
Whether you are new to learning how to support nonbinary and transgender clients, or you need to work through a complex situation, individual consultation is a safe place to learn and process. Potential topics include:
- 9Transgender 101
- 9Specific challenges for nonbinary and gender fluid clients
- 9Minority stress and societal transphobia
- 9Puberty blockers and HRT
- 9Developing a template for gender affirmation letters
- 9Gender affirmation surgeries, surgeons and insurance
- 9How to appeal an insurance denial
- 9Challenging and concerned parents
- 9How to unravel a binary and cisgender structure
- 9How to develop and maintain a gender specialty
Agency Consulting and Presentations
Workplace Education
Bring a deeper understanding of gender to your workplace. Customized topics include:
- 9Pronouns and beyond; language related to gender
- 9Washington state and Federal anti-discrimination policies
- 9How to support a transgender employee’s transition and how it might impact your workplace
- 9How to reduce liability by educating staff, leading by example, setting expectations and following through
- 9How to create a trans friendly workplace
- 9Working with reluctant employees or those new to gender
- 9Understanding gender from a biopsychosocial perspective
- 9Policy creation and review
- 9Reviewing and correcting your forms to ensure they are inclusive
Writing Gender Affirmation Letters
(THAT DON’T GET RETURNED)
Learn about:
- 9Assessing and writing letters in session so you get paid for your time
- 9Using WPATH standards of care, Including WPATH Version 8 Updates
- 9Informed consent and Gatekeeping Models; What's Your Responsibility?
- 9Surgeons and insurance
- 9Creating Your Own Templates
- 9Research articles to bolster appeals
- 9Complex cases