NYC: Creative Approaches to Therapy With LGBTQ Clients workshop

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Don't miss this all-day workshop on enhancing clinical knowledge and

creativity when working with LGBTQ clients, happening in NYC!!!

This workshop is open to masters level clinicians, mental health

professionals and graduate students in metal health and counseling

fields.

For more information, go to:

http://nycreativetherapists.com/creative-approaches-therapy-lgbtq-clients

Creative Approaches to Therapy With LGBTQ Clients

When: Saturday, March 20, 2010, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Where: 190 North 10th Street, Suite 301

burg, Brooklyn 11211

(between Bedford and Driggs)

Fee: $150.00

This all-day workshop is designed to give participants an increased

awareness of the issues and needs particular to Lesbian, Gay,

Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) clients, as well as

provide tools for accessing more creative methods of meeting

therapeutic goals through the incorporation of drama and other

creative arts modalities.

Through a series of didactic and experiential group exercises

emphasizing empathy, compassion and increased clinical insight, we

will:

- Define basic LGBTQ terminology and better illuminate the many

nuances and diverse presentations of gender and sexuality within

society.

- Explore sexuality and gender identity in context of it’s history

with the mental health field.

- Review current information on stressors and needs specific to LGBTQ

individuals, taking into account various factors such as age, culture,

religion, environment, etc.

- Review theoretical models of sexual and gender identity development

and how these models connect to everyday clients in our work.

- Outline 5 principles intrinsic to working with LGBTQ clients in

providing safe and affirmative therapy.

- Experience, through demonstration, various creative arts techniques

and exercises that serve both therapist and client in more creatively

exploring and defining self-identity.

- Explore the relationship between the roles of clinician, advocate

and activist.

Participants are welcome to bring and share case material within their

own work that perhaps inspires or challenges them. Practical resources

such as journal articles, books, online pamphlets and resource

listings will also be provided and available for participants to

review.

Facilitators:

Mark Beauregard, RDT, LCAT is registered drama therapist and licensed

creative arts therapist who has worked with children, adolescents and

adults in various mental health settings, from inpatient and

outpatient psychiatry programs to school-based community programs and

homeless service agencies. Mark is a graduate of New York University

where he researched the use of drama therapy with transgender and

gender-variant children and adolescents for his master's thesis. He

continues to concentrate and present on the importance of gender and

sexual-orientation sensitivity in psychotherapy. Mark is the current

Eastern Region Representative for the National Association for Drama

Therapy (NADT). www.markbeauregard.com.

Tami Gatta, M.A., is a graduate of the New York University Drama

Therapy program where she held an assistantship, earned a fellowship,

and was recognized with an award for her outstanding contributions to

the program. She has focused her attentions on the wide scope of

issues concerning LGBTQ youth, individuals with developmental

disabilities, and the role facial expressions and gesture play in both

the therapeutic encounter and eventual healing. Currently, she works

as the Sobriety Community Linkages Coordinator at AHRC, where she has

the great pleasure of co-leading a weekly group for developmentally

disabled individuals who identify as part of the LGBTQ community. She

presently serves as Treasurer on the Tri-State Chapter Board of NADT.