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Making Your Mental Health Practice Accessible for LGBTQIA+ Clients

Virtual
1.5 CE Hour
Cultural Competency, General
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Description

Jordan Westcott (she/her) is a Ph.D. Candidate in Counselor Education at Virginia Tech, where she studies LGBTQIA+ health and counseling approaches. As a clinical mental health counselor, Jordan worked with a wide range of community-based clients in numerous settings, including crisis inpatient units, integrated health settings, and clinical mental health centers. Jordan’s past clinical experiences and current work as a scholar, supervisor, and educator emphasize the importance of cultural competence in counseling and ensuring all people have access to high-quality mental health services.

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

The educational goal of this presentation is to provide clinicians strategies to increase accessibility and inclusivity in clinical practice for LGBTQIA+ clients.

Learning Objectives

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

  • Describe three strategies to make their practice more accessible to LGBTQIA+ clients.

  • Identify two ways LGBTQIA+ clients' intersecting identities may influence their experience of helpseeking.

  • Create a plan to include LGBTQIA+-inclusive language in practice paperwork.

  • Apply at least one strategy to make clinical work with LGBTQIA+ clients more affirming.

Introductory
Cultural Competency
General
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.

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.

Psychologists

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

CE Policy
TPN.health and this educator have no conflicts of interest and have not received any commercial support for this program or its contents.
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Jordan B. Westcott, MS, NCC

Jordan Westcott (she/her) is a Ph.D. Candidate in Counselor Education at Virginia Tech, where she studies LGBTQIA+ health and counseling approaches. As a clinical mental health counselor, Jordan worked with a wide range of community-based clients in numerous settings, including crisis inpatient units, integrated health settings, and clinical mental health centers. Jordan’s past clinical experiences and current work as a scholar, supervisor, and educator emphasize the importance of cultural competence in counseling and ensuring all people have access to high-quality mental health services.

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