Join Therapy First
By joining Therapy First, you’ll become part of a growing professional association of mental health clinicians dedicated to supporting gender dysphoric young people and their families. We offer two membership options — Associate (free) and Professional ($50/year) — with all members eligible to receive referrals from global inquiries. Membership fees help us maintain a private, collaborative space where we can offer meaningful support, create educational resources, and foster a purposeful, engaged community.
Benefits of Membership
Associate
Membership- Receive referrals from Therapy First
- Monthly email newsletter
- Early access to new programs
Professional
Membership- Receive referrals from Therapy First
- Monthly email newsletter
- Private community forum
- Weekly membership meetings
- Weekly peer supervision group
- Monthly clinical case consultation
- Early access to new programs
- Webinar recording library
- Discounts on webinars
- Option to list yourself in our public therapist directory
Frequently asked questions
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Do I have to join the directory?
No! Adding your name to the directory is completely optional, and you can add or remove yourself at any time. We understand that this is fraught area and that there are many good and valid reasons for wanting to keep a low profile. You can participate in the private community, peer consultations, and trainings without your membership in Therapy First being public knowledge.
Do you condone conversion therapy?
Absolutely not. As we clarify in our Membership Statement, we oppose conversion therapy. We favor a psychotherapy process that does not impose a predetermined agenda.
How can I get training to work with gender distressed young people and their families?
Therapy First offers a wide range of trainings. Therapy First members can access the full catalog of the recordings of prior webinars for free. Therapy First members also receive discounted admission to all live webinars.
Therapy First sponsors several regular peer consultation groups. The Therapy First private community is also a place to ask general questions and seek input.
I’m interested in working with people who have detransitioned. Can Therapy First help me to learn how?
Therapy First offers training, peer consultation, and various other resources to help mental health professionals learn how to provide high quality clinical care to people who have detransitioned, as well as to those who have not detransitioned but feel harmed by gender medicine and experience regret and/or grief related to medical transition.
Do I have to be a licensed therapist to join Therapy First?
Therapy First membership is available to licensed mental health professionals and students in graduate programs in the mental health field. If you are not licensed, you will need to clearly indicate this if you add yourself to the directory.Â
Are all Therapy First members from the same theoretical orientation?
Therapy First is open to any clinician who agrees with our membership statement, regardless of theoretical orientation. Many Therapy First members are trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy, but others are skilled in CBT, somatic experiencing, or DBT. Therapy First does not subscribe to a single model of therapy.