What happens if we really challenge ourselves to do better with our Trans clients?

I’ll be the first to acknowledge that right now is an insanely stressful time. We clinicians are balancing our own struggles as well as managing the needs of our clients, who are also caught in their own swirling struggles due to the pandemic. It’s easy right now to let training and clinical growth go by the wayside…

But we can’t. We can’t get too comfortable… we need to keep pushing ourselves to grow, to be better, to do better. Our clients deserve it. Our clients who are members of marginalized groups deserve it. Our LGBTQIA clients deserve it.

I’m cisgender… I get to move around the world with all that my cisgender privilege entails. Clinically, I regularly work with transgender, nonbinary, and gender questioning people- like some other clinicians, I work with a population I’m not part of. I inherently do not know the trans perspective from lived experience… everything I know about what it means to be trans is second-hand.

Dara Hoffman-Fox, LPC
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That’s one of the reasons that it’s critically important that we dominant-culture therapists continually invest in training about supporting our minority clients, regardless of what marginalized group we’re referring to. We don’t know what it’s like, and we need to rely on experts to help expand our awareness. We all need to jump at the opportunity to consume information and knowledge to help our marginalized-group member clients, and our new free CE course is no different:

Providing Inclusive, Respectful Care to Your Gender Questioning, Transgender, & Nonbinary Clients (Ep. 108)… A Free 1 CE Credit Hour Podcast Continuing Education Course featuring Dara Hoffman-Fox, LPC. The insight and clarity that Dara brings to this topic is top-of-the-line, and it’s a must-listen for all clinicians. Click the link above for information about this new free CE course, like the full description, learning objectives, and free CE credit.

Take care, everyone. Look after yourselves and look after your clients, and be well.

-Beth