LGBTQ Clients in Therapy: Clinical Issues and Treatment Strategies

Course overview

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. This course will equip you with the right tools and up-to-date information you need in this rapidly changing population to more effectively counsel your lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning clients, and couples. Participants 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 Also, learn how to avoid the common mistake of believing, "a couple is a couple" and treating LGBTQ couples the same as their heterosexual counterparts. Don't be a 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.