PESI CE Seminars Present:
LGBTQ Youth: Clinical Strategies to Support Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

Wednesday, May 10, 2017-Towson, MD
 Thursday, May 11, 2017-Columbia, MD
 Friday, May 12, 2017-Bowie, MD

Recently, the LGBTQ community has been in the national spotlight for challenging issues like which bathroom a transgender person should use, increased youth suicide rates, and the Pulse nightclub tragedy. No wonder youth in our communities are scared to be open about who they are.

As a clinician, how are you supposed to help an LGBTQ youth when their parents are just not on board? Also as a clinician, do you know what type of treatment techniques to suggest when a transgender youth wants to prolong hitting puberty? These are the types of questions clinicians struggle with.

Join expert and author, Deb Coolhart, Ph.D., LMFT as she draws on her nearly 20 years of working with LGBTQ youth. Deb will show you effective clinical strategies for:
  • Coming out
  • Bullying
  • Suicide, anxiety, shame, depression, self-harming
  • Making healthy choices
  • Thriving in school
  • Options for guiding gender transition
Working with these youth and families can be complex, requiring the balance of many seemingly opposing viewpoints. As a clinician, there is nothing more rewarding than facilitating these changes and watching families discover their own path towards understanding.

Radical Self-Acceptance
Guilt, shame, and fear — when faced with the distress of these emotions, your client's defensive instinct is to turn away, deny, and repress the pain.

These toxic emotions monopolize your client's personality with self-hate, doubt, criticism and paranoia. By the time they arrive in your office, many of them are struggling with even deeper clinical diagnoses like depression, anxiety, eating disorders or PTSD.
The suffering caused by their feelings of unworthiness and deficiency can be the most difficult and pervasive to treat successfully. Until now...
In this new, intensive online course, clinical psychologist and internationally known teacher of mindfulness meditation Tara Brach combines the latest scientific research with decades of experiential practice to give you the tools you need to end your client's suffering.

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