Queering Therapeutic Conversations

Critical Approaches to the Coming Out and Parental Grief Narratives

4 NBCC CE hours · 4 AASECT CE credits

📅 Friday, January 22, 2027  ·  🕔 9:00 AM to 1:30 PM Pacific  ·  💻 Live on Zoom

Presented by Julie Tilsen, MA, LP, PhD

Early bird pricing, available through December 18, 2026.

Description

Two stories show up again and again in therapy with trans and queer people and their families. One says coming out is a single, dramatic disclosure every queer person owes the world. The other says that when a child comes out as trans, parents must grieve the child they thought they had. Both sound compassionate, and both can quietly reinforce the norms our clients are pushing against.

In this interactive, practice-based workshop, Julie Tilsen introduces queer theory as a conceptual resource for culturally and relationally responsive approaches to gender and sexuality. Through case vignettes, reflexive questions, and practice-based activities, you will examine the discourses that shape your own ideas about gender, sexuality, identity, and family, and practice conversations that make room for more possibilities.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Explain concepts and terms fundamental to queer theory and related theoretical resources.
• Deconstruct, through self-reflexive activities, their ideas about gender and sexuality and the cultural narratives (e.g., medicine, psychology, religion, media) that shape them, and identify strategies to reduce implicit bias during assessment and diagnosis.
• Apply conversational practices informed by queer theory for a respectful, inclusive, and intersectional practice with trans and queer people and their families.
• Demonstrate integration of a queer theory-informed practice into their particular practice context.

What’s Included

• Four hours of live instruction on Zoom, with short breaks that do not count toward CE hours. The session is not recorded.
• Slides and session resources in your Lovewell training hub
• Your CE certificate, released after you verify attendance and complete the evaluation

Before You Check Out

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Continuing Education Information

Lovewell Initiatives is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider™ (ACEP No. 7776).

Lovewell Initiatives, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7776. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Lovewell Initiatives, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. It is the responsibility of the attendee to determine whether their licensing board accepts NBCC continuing education hours.

This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 4 CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification. Completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT certification. For further information please contact [email protected]. AASECT Provider No. 25-0609-LI. It is the responsibility of the attendee to determine if their state licensing board will accept AASECT CE credits.

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