How to Support Parents with Kids on the Gender Spectrum: Non-Binary, Transgender, Genderqueer, and Gender Variant Children
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Educational Goal
Participants will gain competency in working with parents of nonbinary, transgender, and genderqueer children.
Description
This course is focused on helping clinicians provide emotional support to parents with transgender, nonbinary, and genderqueer children. This course will help clinicians provide resources to parents and assist them in coping with their feelings and address challenges related to caring for a transgender and nonbinary child. It will help clinicians support parents in moving through their own coming out process and guide parents in advocating for their transgender and non-binary child. It will help clinicians and parents understand the basic lexicon of LGBTIQ2NB terminology and understand concepts like dead-naming, misgendering, and the correct use of pronouns. This course will also focus on the high-risk mental health challenges transgender and non-binary kids experience
Target Audience
- Counselor
- Marriage & Family Therapist
- Psychologist
- Social Worker
- Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Presenters
Davina S. Kotulski, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist, life coach, spiritual counselor, award-winning author and speaker, and nationally known LGBT rights leader. Dr. Kotulski received the Saints Alive award from the Metropolitan Community Church for her national leadership in the marriage equality movement and for her seminal book Why You Should Give a Damn About Gay Marriage, Advocate Books, 2004.
In 2018, she played a psychologist on Please Understand Me, a Sarah Silverman production, where comedians hash out the problems of their fake relationship with a real therapist.
Her book It’s Never Too Late to Be Your Self: Follow Your Inner Compass and Take Back Your Life won the Nautilus Silver Award for Self-Help in 2018, was a finalist in the International Book Awards for Inspirational Self Help in 2019, and was a Finalist in Motivational Self-Help in the 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
Her newest book The Manna Paradigm Shift: Creating the Consciousness of Abundance and Freedom was released in 2021.
Dr. Kotulski has appeared on LA Today, Good Morning La La Land, and Wake Up to the Sound of Transformation with new thought leader, Michael Bernard Beckwith.
She has a therapy and international coaching practice. She facilitates spiritual and psychological selfempowerment webinars and workshops around the country.