Culturally-Competent Couples Treatment for Relationships in Gender Transition

More and more transgender-identified people are seeking mental health services. Yet professional training on effective therapeutic strategies to best serve the transgender population is scarce. Even more concerning, few workshops specifically examine the lives of people who are transgender through a systems-based lens. This continuing education event is designed to increase competency among mental health providers who serve the transgender community and its allies.

In this two-hour continuing education web conference, Dr. Matthew Goldenberg will introduce common issues couples face when one or both partners are transitioning genders. He will also review and define key terminology used within the transgender community. 

Dr. Goldenberg will highlight ways in which couples therapy modalities can be applied to identify and address specific issues transgender individuals and their partners may face. He will also share a case example illustrating best practices to identify potential sexual and romantic dynamics that are unique to transgender individuals.

All levels of experience are welcome. This introductory instructional level web conference is designed to help clinicians:

1. Define key terminology such as transgender and gender binary.
2. Describe distinctions between issues that affect lesbian, gay, and bisexual communities and those that affect the transgender community.
3. Discuss a case example to examine key issues couples face when a partner is transitioning.
4. Assess which couples therapy techniques are most adaptable to the transgender community in a culturally-relevant manner.
5. Recognize common barriers people who are transgender may face when attempting to access mental health care.

If you have questions about this event, please contact us here.

Continuing Education (CE) Information

2 CE contact hours will be provided by GoodTherapy for attending this web conference in its entirety. 

GoodTherapy is an Approved Education Provider by NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals (provider #135463). Of the eight counselor skill groups ascribed to by NAADAC, this course is classified within Counseling Services. 

GoodTherapy is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements.

GoodTherapy.org, provider #1352, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 3/30/2022 – 3/30/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 2 continuing education credits.

GoodTherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GoodTherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content. GoodTherapy.org received APA approval in May 2011. Events after 2011 may meet APA requirements for Continuing Education credits.

GoodTherapy, SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0395.

GoodTherapy, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0022 and for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0031.

To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

Registration Information

Premium and Pro Membership with GoodTherapy includes access to this web conference at no additional cost. Not yet a member? Sign up for a Premium or Pro Membership, here.

Mental health professionals who are not members can attend this live web conference for $30.95 or access the homestudy recording for $15.50. Sign up here to purchase this CE course and earn a CE certificate.

If the event is canceled by GoodTherapy, registrants who purchased the event will be notified and the charge for the event will be refunded

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