Trans Affirmative Care in Integrated Behavioral Health

Session Description: This 1-hour webinar is designed to share best practices for supporting transgender and gender expansive clients in IBH settings. The session will focus on practical implications for mental health clinicians with an emphasis on cultural humility and intersectional theory.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Oak Reed received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Montana after completing his residency at the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center in Milwaukee, WI with an emphasis in health psychology. Over the years, he has worked across diverse clinical settings, including outpatient mental health and university-based primary care clinics, community and university-based medical centers, and a variety of clinics within Veterans Health Administration. Oak's primary research interests include analyzing motivations and impacts of anti-transgender prejudices and investigating barriers to care seeking among transgender individuals. Most recently, his dissertation investigated the impact a transgender-affirmative care training had on healthcare providers' competence and confidence in delivering adequate care to gender minority individuals. In addition, he has published both empirical and theoretical articles, book chapters, and book reviews on sexual and gender minority topics. Oak has been invited to lecture on his research findings at universities and health care settings to both national and international audiences in addition to serving on several diversity workgroups. Currently, he is a full-time licensed clinician and Regional Director at Active and Connected Family Therapy where he primarily provides individual therapy for sexual and gender diverse individuals, Veterans, and individuals with complex medical conditions, in addition to facilitating interdisciplinary case consultations and providing psychoeducation to colleagues and community members.

Learning Objectives: 

LO1: Identify key strategies for providing Trans Affirmative Care.
LO2: Describe barriers and supports to trans affirmative care in integrated behavioral health  settings.
LO3: Apply trans affirmative therapy skills to practice with diverse client populations.
 

Accessibility statement: SF State Department of Counseling’s Equity and Justice – Focused Counselor Training project welcomes persons with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations (including ASL interpretation) upon request. If you need reasonable accommodations for this event, please make your request by contacting Julie Chronister jchronis@sfsu.edu by Friday 9/22/23.

Continuing Education Information

The Department of Counseling at San Francisco State University, an accredited post-secondary educational institution, maintains responsibility for the program and its content. Real-time attendance at this webinar has been approved for 1.0 hours of continuing education credit for LMFT, LPCC, and/or LCSW as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BPC 4980.54, 4989.34, 4996.22, 4999.76). Please direct concerns about this course or its content to Tiffany O’Shaughnessy, PhD taosh@sfsu.edu
 

There is no cost to attend this webinar. Participants desiring CEU credit for attending this webinar will be directed to sign in at the start of the webinar and will be required to provide an evaluation of the session directly following the webinar and verify their participation and attendance. CEU certificates will be emailed to participants who successfully complete both the sign in and evaluation process.