Are you making the biggest mistake treating your LGBTQ clients?
Are you pushing them to “come out”? And if you are…you could be
traumatizing your clients.
I made the same mistake early in my career of forcing my clients to name
and claim their sexual identity.
I didn’t know how to ask them about their sexual practices. And when I
tried, I offended them.
Come to my workshop and I will equip you with the right tools and upto-
date information you need in this rapidly changing population to
more effectively counsel your lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and
questioning clients, and couples.
You will learn specific strategies to better treat the unique challenges your
client may be facing such as:
• self-acceptance and internalized homophobia
• non hetero-normative sexual behaviors and practices
• trauma and abuse from growing up LGBTQ
• the difficult process of coming out
Also, let me help you avoid the common mistake of believing, “a couple
is a couple” and treating LGBTQ couples the same as their heterosexual
counterparts.
Don’t be the straight therapist that is losing LGBTQ clients because of
poor intake, assessment and treatment planning. Learn how to offer your
clients a safe place for therapy.
I look forward to meeting you at my workshop!
Joe Kort, Ph.D., LMSW
OBJECTIVES:
1. Assess gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender
and questioning clients for psychological
trauma to assist in informing treatments
interventions.
2. Establish and understand the six distinct
stages of the coming out process to provide
optimal amount of support to the client.
3. Distinguish between mental health
disorders that mimic the effects of the
trauma from growing up LGBTQ.
4. Utilize specific clinical interventions and
assessment tools to more effectively treat
LGBTQ clients.
5. Employ adaptable clinical interventions to
work more effectively with LGBTQ clients
from different generations.
6. Consider the dynamics of same gendered
couple, including vulnerabilities and
strengths, when