Making Your Mental Health Practice Accessible for LGBTQIA+ Clients
Making Your Mental Health Practice Accessible for LGBTQIA+ Clients
Presented By
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Jordan B. Westcott, MS, NCCMore Info
Dates and Times
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-Live Webinar
Location
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Live WebinarAccess virtually on TPN.health
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.
- • Social Worker
- • Psychologist
- • Marriage & Family Therapist
- • Counselor
- • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
The educational goal of this presentation is to provide clinicians strategies to increase accessibility and inclusivity in clinical practice for LGBTQIA+ clients.
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
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Describe three strategies to make their practice more accessible to LGBTQIA+ clients.
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Identify two ways LGBTQIA+ clients' intersecting identities may influence their experience of helpseeking.
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Create a plan to include LGBTQIA+-inclusive language in practice paperwork.
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Apply at least one strategy to make clinical work with LGBTQIA+ clients more affirming.
TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
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 General continuing education credits.
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.
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.
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.
TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
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.
TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
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.
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.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 programing. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development
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