As a trainer, I foster a learning environment which is welcoming and compliments the work you are already doing, provides concrete information and ideas for therapeutic interventions and facilitates room for exploring questions that arise within therapeutic work. The trainings encourage understanding of nuance in topics such as:

• Exploring gender-based implicit provider bias

• Understanding how to reduce gate keeping while providing assessments and gender affirming surgery support letters

• Understanding complex grief and loss in 2SLGBTQIA+ communit(ies) *co-facilitated with Jen Brown, LICSW

As a consultant, I empower you to continue the work of meeting your clients’ needs. We will focus on clinical consultation, practical information, and specific feedback so that you and your team leave the discussion feeling more confident.  

I specialize in providing peer-to-peer consultation for mental health and medical providers writing gender affirming surgery support letters (using WPATH SOC V. 8 as a guide). 

Whether you’ve been working with a client for years, just a few weeks or months, at point of intake, or at a one-time meeting, it can be overwhelming and often raises a lot of questions and concerns of how to meet our clients’ needs while also navigating the expectations of the systems we work within. 

For any provider, there may be internal dilemma over ethical practice and the gate keeping role. 

For cisgender (non-trans) providers, there may be additional concerns over implicit bias in the role.

For trans, nonbinary and gender expansive providers, there may be additional concerns related to being in a gate keeping role while also holding lived experience.