This webinar offers valuable insights for mental health professionals and researchers on understanding and supporting individuals adversely impacted by medical transition - a unique and growing population worldwide. Led by Sophie Frost, a psychotherapist and founder of The Primrose Practice, the webinar will draw from her experience facilitating a peer support group over 2 years […]

Join us for a conversation exploring the international landscape of youth gender dysphoria, focusing on the mental health field’s evolving approaches, ethical dilemmas, and treatment controversies. Amid growing global scrutiny of medical interventions like puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for youth, this webinar tackles the critical questions facing clinicians today. Given the remarkably weak evidence […]

Few psychotherapists receive formal training in lesbian and gay history and identity development, creating significant gaps in the knowledge they need to competently identify, serve, and support clients who are -- or may be – same-sex attracted. Given consistent empirical confirmation that the majority of clients with childhood cross-sex identification or gender anxiety will see […]

Join experienced pediatrician Dr. Julia Mason for an engaging and informative exploration of the adolescent brain. This webinar will delve into the fascinating—and sometimes perplexing—process of neurological development during adolescence. As young brains mature at different rates across various regions, it's not uncommon for teenagers to exhibit behavior that appears inconsistent, unpredictable, or downright baffling. […]

This talk will explore the ways online trans communities handle questions and doubts about gender dysphoria, trans identification, and transition/detransition. Concepts like internalized transphobia and imposter syndrome function as socially acceptable ways to express and minimize or dismiss questions and doubts that emerge at all stages of questioning, transitioning, and detransitioning, in ways that keep […]

This webinar will review the history of what people have believed about estrogen and testosterone, how they acted on those beliefs, how those beliefs changed over time, and how we arrived at the beliefs commonly held today. Drawing from his book, Sex Science Self: A Social History of Estrogen, Testosterone, and Identity, Bob Ostertag will […]

The talk will examine how male same-sex sexuality is expressed and conceptualized in two different cultures, Samoa and among the Istmo Zapotec in Oaxaca, Mexico, contrasting this with Euro-American culture. It will also discuss cross-culturally invariant aspects of male same-sex sexuality which emerge regardless of cultural differences. Learning Objectives: Understand the variety of ways in […]

Psychiatry has a problematic history in terms of its approach to homosexuality. This history is often invoked as a warning that we must not make the same mistakes in the way we respond to people experiencing gender dysphoria and those who identify as trans. A brief review of the 20th-century psychoanalytic approach to homosexuality will […]

A client shares with you in session that they are questioning their gender identity...now what? This webinar is designed to provide you, the clinician, with insight, guidance and practical tools to help your clients explore their gender identity. Drawing on over a decade of clinical experience leading a psychotherapy private practice focused on gender identity […]

This webinar will provide a comprehensive overview of Transition-Related Grief (TRG), including the ways in which it is distinct from detransition, as well as the clinical themes involved in therapeutic work with those experiencing TRG. Special attention will be given to the preparation clinicians need to work effectively in this area and the relevance of […]

.stk-vnxam03 {max-width:500px !important;min-width:auto !important;} This webinar explores cultural competence in psychotherapy with gender-distressed and gender-questioning youth, with a focus on how cultural, social, developmental, and professional contexts shape both distress and clinical responses. Cultural competence is understood not as a fixed body of knowledge, but as an ongoing, dynamic practice requiring awareness of positionality, power, […]

.stk-xj4ym02 {max-width:500px !important;min-width:auto !important;} This webinar will be a 90-minute lecture and discussion describing the poles of disagreement about how psychotherapy should be purposed, constructed, and conducted for gender distressed youth. The lecture will comprise approximately half of the session and will highlight the diversity of both psychotherapists and the young people they serve. It will […]