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Joe Kort, PhD, LMSW

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender And Questioning (LGBTQ) Clients: Clinical Issues And Treatment Strategies

July 10th - July 14th, 2023

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15-Hour In-Person & Live-Online Course
Monday - Friday: 9:00a.m. - 12:30p.m. EDT / 30-Minute Break Daily

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Course Description

Join international speaker, author, and expert on LGBTQ issues Dr. Joe Kort as he equips you with the right tools and information to more effectively counsel your lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning clients and couples. Through case examples and plenty of humor, you will gain a better understanding of the modern LGBTQ culture, keep abreast of how younger clients are identifying in a more sexual and gender fluid way and learn to target the trauma associated with growing up in the closet and how minority stress affects one’s personality and mental health. You will learn specific strategies to treat the unique challenges your client may be facing, such as:


  • internalized homophobia and LGTBQ shame

  • non hetero-normative sexual behaviors and practices

  • trauma and abuse from growing up LGBTQ: the difficult process

  • helping clients through the stages of coming out


Dr. Kort will also help you avoid the common mistake of believing “a couple is a couple” and treating LGBTQ couples the same as their heterosexual counterparts. He will address the unique relationship dynamics of a same gendered couple and give you practical tools for their therapeutic progress. Many LGBTQ couples and individuals leave their straight therapists and hire a LGBTQ therapist due to a lack of information and education by the straight therapist. It’s not enough to be “LGBTQ friendly.” You must be LGBTQ informed. The fact is, even the best-intentioned therapists have some level of homophobia to overcome. From birth, heterosexist culture imprints us to think that heterosexuality is primary and that any other orientation is inferior.


In this workshop, you will learn to be culturally competent with your LGBTQ clients and be able to help them around issues of sex, coming out, growing up LGBTQ, Bisexuality, Transgender, mixed orientation relationships, gender fluidity, and sexual fluidity. You will learn to avoid mislabeling a client and using terminology that may prove offensive to them.

Monday

  • Trauma of growing up LGBTQ contributing to PTSD

  • Identify internalized homophobia and gay shame

  • Covert cultural sexual abuse and its effects on LGBTQ

  • Recognize developmental insults and wounding from growing up LGBTQ

Tuesday

  • Six distinct stages of coming out and treatment implications for teenagers and adults

  • Stigma and its impact on mental health from childhood to adulthood: six distinct stages with interventions

  • Navigate the three phases of coming out to avoid isolation and alienation

Wednesday

  • Working with modern LGBTQ couples and mixed orientation relationships

  • Dynamics of a same gendered couple including vulnerabilities and strengths

  • Coming out discrepancy causing turbulence for couples

  • Open relationships in gay male couples

  • Specific stages of coming out as a mixed orientation couple

  • Specialized treatment programs for the straight spouses

  • Helping LGBTQ spouse integrate their identity into their mixed orientation relationships

  • Learn how to identify which couples will succeed and which won’t

Thursday

  • Understanding transgender teens and adults

  • Overcome the knowledge barrier

  • Avoid using outdated treatment plans

  • Learn and differentiate correct terms such as gender queer, gender fluid and cisgender

  • Strategies to help your client tell their partner, families, friends, and employers

  • Tips for discussing hormone treatments and surgical procedures

  • Crucial points for transgender teens medically and psychologically and how to create the best treatment plan

Friday

  • Sexual Fluidity: Correct terminology and understanding

  • Cultural competency of LGBTQ sexuality and language varieties of sexuality

  • Protect the client from your own biases and assumptions

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