Event Registration

Schedule:
DoubleTree by Hilton Denver Tech Center
Room - Lemon Twist
8:30am – 9:30am  Registration, Breakfast Buffet, & Networking
9:30am – 11:30am Seminar

Seminar Description:

August 24, 2018
Topic: Clinical Approaches to Working with LGBTQ® Populations

Presenter: Matthew LeBauer, LCSW, LeBauer Counseling

In this engaging presentation and panel discussion, behavioral health professionals will explore the unique demands on clinicians & treatment programs working with the LGBTQ population in culturally competent ways. Participants will hear clinicians’ diverse clinical models & approaches to work with LGBTQ clients, with regards to attachment patterns, systems theory, sex therapy, trauma, addiction and substance use concerns. Panelists will host an open Q&A to give participants an opportunity to ask the questions they’ve not known to ask to offer their LGBTQ clients the sensitive, informed care they deserve.

Objectives:
*Assess unique relational patterns in the LGBTQ communities, including non-monogamy, social-sexual patterns and mores, safer sex in the age of PREP (and the myth of post-AIDs).

* List two ways to apply clinical knowledge to culturally competent work with LGBTQ populations, tailor clinical approaches to the unique, marginalized, experiences of the population and understand where 'standard' (read: heteronormative) clinical approaches may be disruptive, invalidating and traumatic to the LGBTQ population, e.g attachment approaches, relationship development, self-care.

*Define how to employ a nuanced sense of “Self as Therapist” in the clinical work, identifying and correcting misconceptions, biases and limitations, address questions of how/when to get consultation, when to collaborate, when to refer out, so as not to put emotional labor of educating the therapist on the client.

*Explain how to create a safe healing environment that is mindful to the traumatic experience of LGBTQ people as a marginalized, persecuted minority, offers healing and empowerment, protects from toxic messages/replications.

Keynote Presenter
Matthew LeBauer, LCSW is a private practice psychotherapist and sex therapist in Denver, CO. His practice focuses on attachment, communication & conflict resolution in relationship therapy. Matthew specializes in work with the LGBTQ population, kinks, fetishes and BDSM in relationships, and negotiated non-monogamy. Matthew approaches his work through a feminist, social justice lens with a passion for educating about boundaries.

Panel Members:
E. Asher Eno, LPC, LMFT, NCC, CYT (legal name: Elizabeth Mary Eno) is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Yoga Teacher, Asher works with all individuals, relationships, and families to assist them in living to their fullest potential both individually and as a working part of interpersonal relationships. Asher has been trained extensively in concerns pertaining to sexuality, gender, gender transitions, communication, connection, and intimacy. Asher identifies as a transgender male and uses he/him/his pronouns.

Will Logan is a licensed Social Worker with a private practice in Denver, CO. Will specializes with LBGTQ clients and families to gain better understanding of relationships as a great support or their deepest pain. When navigating topics related to sex, gender, and sexuality in relationships or families, these experiences can be even more pronounced.   Will assists people in relationships find connection and healing, especially while navigating topics of sex, gender, or sexuality. Will has specific training in relationship therapy, many years of experience in the sexuality field, and is polyamory- and kink-affirming.  Will is comfortable navigating challenging conversations, from trauma to out-of-control sexual behaviors.

Mauricio Yabar is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a Certified Sex Therapist, and trained in narrative therapy. He earned his master’s degrees in Clinical Social Work and Human Sexuality from Widener University in Pennsylvania, and I have a bachelor’s degree in Psychology, with concentrations in Health Studies and Sociology from Montclair State University in New Jersey. Mauricio currently works with persons affected by problems related to their sexual identities and experiences. His clinical specializations include problems of sexual self-control, non-offending pedophilia and other paraphilias, social, cultural, and religious shame and stigma. I also love working with sexual minorities, especially LGBTQ+ youth and young adults.

2 Continuing Education Credits:
*Psychologists - This program is sponsored by Sierra Tucson. Sierra Tucson is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists; Sierra Tucson maintains responsibility for this program.

Attendees for this Advanced presentation are behavioral healthcare professionals in private practice, treatment program clinical directors/staff, community agencies, and various mental health disciplines.

Sign up and save! $25 per person with pre-registration due the Friday prior to the event, (no refund after this date). Please register online with your credit card to take advantage of the lower rate.  (Late registration at the door, $35 cash or check.)

For additional information, you may call or email:
Diane Sanders
720-810-1339
 Diane.Sanders@acadiahealthcare.com

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