IN PERSON-Friday, March 14, 2025, 9:00-4:00pm-Gender Diversity: Theories, Language, & Mental Health Evaluation with Jeremy J. Darling, LMHC
The Courtyard Marlborough, 75 Felton Street, Marlborough, MA 01752
IN PERSON-Friday, March 14, 2025, 9:00 AM-4:00 PM-$219 including CEUs
Gender Diversity: Theories, Language, & Mental Health Evaluation
Jeremy J. Darling, LMHC
The LGBTQIA+ community continues to be one that is underserved and often misunderstood by the healthcare field and its practitioners. Within mental health care disciplines there is often uncertainty with how to engage, effectively communicate, objectively evaluate, and compassionately meet the needs of the transgender/gender-expansive section of the LGBTQIA+ community. By learning about theories regarding gender and sexuality, cross-cultural frameworks of gender roles and inclusion, nuanced language, and a structured system of evaluation one can create a safe and appropriately challenging space for clients to process their gender identity and decision-making process for seeking gender-affirming medical care.
Following this training the participants will understand:
· Queer Theory and its role in shaping gender evaluations
· Differences between dozens of different terms regarding gender/sexuality
· A structured evaluation for providing gender-affirming therapy
Your Trainer:
Jeremy Darling is a certified sex therapist and licensed mental health counselor with over 10 years of experience working with gender diverse folks at all stages of transitioning. His work is strongly influenced by a humanistic, transcultural lens that prides itself in evaluating the intersections of the micro, mezzo, and macro worlds that clients struggle to balance and understand. He hopes that through his advocacy and trainings more therapists are able to meet the needs of the gender-expansive population and advocate for care at all stages for which our most vulnerable need support.
