About the Course
The personal is political, and the political is personal. Affirmative therapists working with LGBQIA+, TGNB, CNM/ENM and kinky clients can struggle to manage big emotions when political threats impact the greater communities we serve. It can be even more challenging to hold space and make meaning of political anxieties when therapists hold similar identities and relate deeply to their client’s concerns. One way of tending to our own anxieties as affirmative therapists is to invest in our own advocacy practices outside the treatment room. This course will help affirmative therapists begin to build sustainable advocacy efforts as a part of their clinical practice.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to: 1. Explain why advocacy is an important part of being an affirmative therapist 2. Identify 3 ways affirmative therapists can engage in advocacy efforts.
What People Are Saying
Feedback from a live course in November 2024
I appreciated the road map to identifying what you want to change and how you can go about that.
I really appreciated the discussion of periodization. I've been an activist on and off since high school and I think periodization could help make my activism more sustainable.
This course gave me better ways to conceptualize advocacy.
Your Presenters
Melissa Dellens, MA, LMFT (she/they) and Cadyn Cathers, PsyD, MBA (he/him) bring over a decade of shared expertise to clinical education, specializing in the intersection of psychoanalytic theory and affirmative care for LGBTQIA+, CNM/ENM, and kink communities. Together, they led The Affirmative Couch—an online continuing education platform founded by Dr. Cathers where Melissa served as COO—and have both served as faculty members at Antioch University Los Angeles. Today, their collaboration continues at Out Couch Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, where both clinicians offer psychotherapy, clinical supervision, consultation and continuing education. Dr. Cadyn and Melissa work together to cultivate training spaces that empower pre-licensed and licensed therapists to work more confidently within the diversity of gender and sexuality.
Additional Information
Intended Audience This course is meant for an intermediate to advanced audience of psychologists, counselors, and marriage and family therapists and social workers working affirmatively with TGNB clients. Completion Requirements To get CE credit you must complete the entire webinar and complete the post test with at least 75% Refunds No refunds will be offered on the purchase of this course. Accommodations We will work to accommodate reasonable accommodations requests. Requests can be emailed with “accommodation request” within 48 hours of course purchase. Requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
APA Approved Sponsor
Out Couch Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, PC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Out Couch Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, PC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Curriculum
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Course Overview
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Abstract
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Learning Objectives
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About the Presenter
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Slide Deck
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Course Materials
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Recorded Homestudy
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Post Test
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Advocacy Efforts for Affirmative Therapists Post Test
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Post Course Survey
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Post Course Survey: Advocacy Efforts for Affirmative Therapists
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Develop sustainable advocacy efforts along side your clinical practice as an affirmative therapist!
Enroll today to learn more strategies to create social change!
$19.00