Aaron Testard – LGBTQ Clients in Today’s World: Treatment Strategies for Gender & Sexual Identity Issues
Aaron Testard – LGBTQ Clients in Today’s World: Treatment Strategies for Gender & Sexual Identity Issues
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Description
- Faculty:
- Aaron Testard
- Duration:
- Full Day
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Oct 23, 2019
Description
Outline
There are current trends in clinical work.
- Increased family and community acceptance: What this means for our work
- Sexuality and gender: separate but connected
- Polyamory and open relationships
- Conversion therapy debunked
- Online dating and hook-up culture
Safety for LGBTQ clients is established.
- Terminology to include in website, business profiles, and client registration forms
- Avoid the most common mistakes by therapists that break safety and trust
- Build rapport quickly and effectively
- Talk about sex with openness and comfort
- Incorporate gender talk and knowledge into your vocabulary
The factors that affect mental health.
- How being LGBTQ is connected to depression, anxiety, and addiction … and how it is not
- How developmental trauma affects identity development
- Particular traumas:
- Bullying
- Bashing
- Institutional Oppression
- Conversion Treatment History
- Family mirroring and acceptance
- Religious and cultural barriers
- Sexual health and wellness
- Alcohol and substance use
Help clients with their identify development.
- Phase 1: Pre-Coming Out
- Denial about sexual orientation or gender
- When sexual behavior doesn’t match sexual identity
- Differentiate between feelings, behavior, and identity
- The importance of continued sexual health assessment and education
- Phase 2: Comparison and Consideration
- When clients start to think they might be LGBTQ (or at least different)
- Client cues that are openings to explore further
- Questions to elicit more open discussion
- How to inquire without pushing beyond client readiness
- Phase 3: Tolerance and Exploration
- When clients are exploring sexuality and gender but have not claimed an identity
- Use different models of sexuality and gender with clients
- Track for integration: Is this helpful for the client?
- Address shame and internalized homophobia/transphobia
- Identify educational resources
- Phase 4: Acceptance
- When clients start to integrate their sexual and gender identity into the world
- Connect clients with community support
- Facilitate grief for lost time and lost dreams
- Develop a coming-out plan and process
- Start talking about gender transition
- Tools to navigate the conflicting worlds of family, identity, and cultures
- Phase 5: Pride
- Address client rage about oppression and past injuries (even when it’s directed toward you)
- Support clients in celebrating their “adolescence”: validation and safety
- Attend to the particular challenges of bisexuals
- Phase 6: Synthesis and Integration
- When being LGBTQ is hardly an issue for the client
- Effectively integrate LGBTQ history and knowledge into the clinical session
Faculty
Aaron Testard Related seminars and products: 1
Testard is a member of the LPCC. He has been in private practice in Berkeley for 20 years. He was the Director of Clinical Programs at the Pacific Center for Human Growth for 7 years, where he designed and implemented psychotherapy services for individuals, couples, and families, 24 adult peer support groups, and an after-school youth program. He has trained and supervised many interns over the years, as well as being a mental health consultant for local clinics and organizations. Over the course of his career, he has worked as an addiction counselor, a high school counselor, and a consultant for a felon re-entry program. He works with adults, adolescents, and couples on sexual and gender identity.
He received his MA in counseling psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is a trained drama therapist, sensorimotor therapist, and practitioner of the Gottman couple’s method.
To learn more about Aaron, visit www.aarontestard.net
Speaker disclosures.
Testard has a private practice. He is paid by PESI, Inc.
The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy is a non-financial member.
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