Therapeutic Bodywork for Our Transgender Community
Tracking # 20-1398821
Course overview
8 Hr CE class - Diversity and inclusion training is at the core of this course, you will learn the best and most effective ways to treat our trans family members and support their gender-affirming journey in both emotional and physical terms. You will learn trauma-informed care in addition to specific bodywork techniques which are tailored to anyone going through any gender-affirming care or surgeries. When we fully accept one another on our own individual paths, without judgement or fear of a personal or physical difference we build stronger communities, connected in equality and unconditional love. This course is designed to offer an education for you as a therapist, on how to properly treat LGBTQIA & specifically trans clients. If you have a heart for our trans family members, this course is for you. This course includes the following education and techniques: Listening Skills Training Drop The Goal & Transform Your Touch The ARC of Pain & How to avoid it Diversity Training Trauma-Informed Care for the Massage Therapist The Ho-Oponopono Approach Scar Tissue Massage for Post-Op Loss of Sensation Hormones & How They Affect Us Facial Massage for Facial Feminization or Masculinization Surgeries Breath Work with Pectoral Massage for Binder or Corset Users Back Pain from Binding & Corset Use Lateral Thoracic Massage for ROM Phalloplasty donor site scar tissue massage (How to decrease post-op nerve damage in the IT band or forearm donor site). Breath work coaching training for the therapist. Learn to offer breath work to clients struggling with anxiety, depression, or self-acceptance. Tools for Allies - in our LGBTQIA Communities
Subject areas
This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.
South Carolina Board of Massage Therapy
Massage Therapist
Disclosure statements
This course provides 8 hours of NCBTMB approved course credits for online-learning.