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• The Gender Transition Process

  • When
    Sunday, September 22, 2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:15 PM
  • Location
    Online ZOOM
  • Spaces left
    19

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  Presenter Ed Geraty, LCSW-C (MD), LICSW (WV), LCSW (VA), LICSW (DC) 
  

  Special Guest: Siena Lacovezzi

  CEUs: Category 1 | 3.0 

  Teaching your client how to heal their inner child can be a powerful and Transgender people come from every region of the United States and around the world, from every racial and ethnic background, and from every faith community. Transgender people are your classmates, your coworkers, your neighbors, and your friends. With approximately 1.4 million transgender adults in the United States—and millions more around the world—chances are that you've met a transgender person, even if you don't know it. While each person's transition is unique to them, this workshop will focus on one woman’s transition journey and will assist mental health clinicians in understanding the unique medical, psychological, and psychosocial aspects of the transition process.
  

  Workshop Objectives:

  Participants in this workshop will:

  1. Understand the gender transitioning processes.
  2. Become aware of the medical, legal, and psychosocial aspects of the process.
  3. Understand concepts such as non-binary, gender dysphoria.
  4. Learn about the types of gender affirming surgeries.
  5. Become aware of barriers to gender transitioning.

  Agenda:

  • Overview of the gender transitioning processes
  • The medical, legal, and psychosocial aspects of the process.
  • A review of concepts such as non-binary, gender dysphoria.
  • Q@A with Siena; a transgender individual
  • Break
  • Barriers to gender transitioning
  • Discussion
  • Closing

  Recommended Reading:

  • Gender Born, Gender Made: Raising Healthy Gender-Nonconforming Children by Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D
  • Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein
  • Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock
  • She’s Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband by Helen Boyd
  • Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth

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• How to Help a Client Have a Psychologically Flexible BDSM Relationship

  • When
    Saturday, October 19, 2024
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    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Online ZOOM
  • Spaces left
    40

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  Presenter Brittany Hudspeth

  • Licensed Professional Counselor
  • National Certified Counselor
  • Certified Clinical Trauma Professional
  • AASECT Certified Sex Therapist

  CEUs: Category 1 | 3.0 

  For any clinician at any level. This workshop will discuss psychological flexibility within an BDSM relationship. How to increase clients discourse of the relationship in a affirming and non judgmental way. This workshop with discuss terminology that is used in BDSM dynamics along with best practices.

  Workshop Objectives:

  1. By the conclusion of the class participates will be able to:
  2. Will be able discuss best practices for working with someone in a BDSM dynamic
  3. Will be able to describe different terms for BDSM dynamics
  4. Create a BDSM dynamic contract with clients
  5. Recognize how to increase client disclosures of BDSM relationships

  Agenda:

  • Introduction to ACT and Psychological Flexibility
  • How to increase clients disclosure
  • Terms
  • How to create a contract/ aftercare
  • Best Practices
  • Q & A

  Recommended Reading:
  

  • Buehler, S. (2022). What Every Mental Health Professional Needs to Know 
  • The Leather Couch: by Stefani Goerlich

  Citations that will be used in the workshop:
  

  • Buehler, S. (2022). What Every Mental Health Professional Needs to Know About Sex. Springer Publishing.
  • The Leather Couch: by Stefani Goerlich

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• 2024 Legislation & Advocacy BRUNCH | L&A PRIORITIES: Completing the Compact; Stopping Insurance Interlopers in Treatment; Motivating Voters

  • When
    Sunday, October 20, 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Maggiano's Little Italy Chevy Chase | 5333 Wisconsin Ave., NW | Washington, DC 20015
  • Spaces left
    52

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  REGISTER NOW - FREE EVENT FOR MEMBERS (CHARGE FOR OPTIONAL 2.5 CATEGORY 1 CEUs)
  

  2024 LEGISLATION & ADVOCACY (L&A) BRUNCH: L&A PRIORITIES: Completing the Compact; Stopping Insurance Interlopers in Treatment; Motivating Voters

  The GWSCSW will host our 10th Annual FREE Legislation and Advocacy Brunch IN-PERSON on October 20, 2024, 10 am-1 pm. “PRIORITIES” will feature our lobbyists, Christine Krone (MD) and Mark Smith (VA), as well as all of our committee chairs. Laura Groshong, CSWA Director of Policy and Practice will also join us to give a national view. Help us in our continuing efforts to get the compact passed in Maryland & DC! Examine what’s needed/realistic in stopping insurance interference in our practices! Motivating voters in this crucial election! Come learn-and help educate us about what’s on your mind!

  MEMBERS ATTEND A BRUNCH AND INFORMATIVE EVENT FOR FREE AS A MEMBER BENEFIT! CEUs OPTIONAL for $50.00.

  Non-member’s cost: BRUNCH AND INFORMATIONAL PROGRAM - $60.00. CEUS OPTIONAL FOR ADDITIONAL $50.00. TOTAL FOR BRUNCH, PROGRAM AND CEUS FOR NON-MEMBERS, $110.00.

  (TO JOIN OUR SOCIETY AND GET THE MEMBER BENEFITS, GO TO OUR MEMBERSHIP PAGE.)
  

  Attendance is a free benefit to our members, but you must register to attend. OPTIONAL TWO-AND-A-HALF (2.5) CATEGORY 1 CEUs FOR $50.00.

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