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Affirming Queer Neurodivergence: Counseling LGBTGEQIAP+ Clients with Autism and ADHD

Virtual
On Demand
1.75 CE Hour On Demand
Clinical, Cultural Competency
Ticket Pricing
SAIGE Professional Member
$25
Non-Member Professional
$35

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Description

There are more people with ADHD and autism in the queer community than in the general population. Therefore, understanding this intersection of queer and neurodivergent identity is vital to counseling LGBTGEQIAP+ clients. Unfortunately, current clinical norms pathologize neurodivergence and discourage authenticity. This presentation seeks to give therapists the skills to work effectively with queer neurodivergent clients from the perspective of queer neurodivergent therapists.

Target Audience
  • • Counselors
  • • Addiction Counselors
  • • Psychologists
  • • Social Workers
  • • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to increase understanding of neurodivergent affirming therapy.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Define neurodivergent affirming therapy.

  • Articulate at least three parallels between neurodivergent and queer affirming practice.

  • Identify two or more strategies that can be implemented in practice to affirm queer neurodivergent clients.

Introductory
Clinical
Cultural Competency
Counselors

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

 

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, 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 mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

Addiction Counselors

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development.

Psychologists

Trusted Provider Network is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Trusted Provider Network maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Social Workers

TPN.health, #1766, 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. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 continuing education credits.

 

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC 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 #SW-0654.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, 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-0097.

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by SAIGE. There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
  • Waiting Room Opens
  • Workshop Begins
  • 5 Minute Break
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  • Workshop Ends
Note: Time designated for waiting room, breaks cannot be counted toward CE credit.
Gene N. Dockery, PhD, LPCC, LMHC, NCC

Dr. Gene Dockery (they/them) is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program at Seattle University. They earned their MA in Counseling at East Tennessee State University and their PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision at Ohio University. Gene’s research focuses on queer and trans liberation, disability justice, and advocacy. They own a small telehealth private practice where their clinical specialty is queer neurodivergence, the intersection of nonnormative genders/sexualities and neurological differences. Gene is also the Public Policy Committee Chairperson for the Society for Sexual, Affectional, Intersex, and Gender Expansive Identities and the Vice Chairperson of the Association of Specialists in Group Work Research Committee

Amber Bloom, MA, LPC-S

Amber Bloom is queer and neurodivergent and raising two children who are also queer and neurodivergent. She is a Ph.D. Candidate at Texas Christian University and has worked as a mental health counselor since 2011.

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