LGBTQIA and Spirituality: Relgious Trauma and Ethical Principles

Date & Time

Friday, May 21, 2021
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM

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Location

Webinar
Your computer, Your city, GA 00000

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About This Event

Webinar Overview

During this webinar, clinician attendees (i.e., licensed professional counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists) will learn there is a high prevalence of secular LGBTQIA and transgender clients who are exploring their identity and trying to reconcile their potential previous belief systems, as well as the belief systems of their parents, community and nation. Many clients have been raised within a religious framework and can feel distanced from those beliefs, which can affect their gender affirmation or feelings as part of the LGBTQIA community. Seminar attendees will discuss working with secular and religious clients and break barriers of their own bias in the therapy room.

About the Speaker

Katie Leikam, LCSW, LISW-CP, is a gender specialist in Decatur, Georgia, who is WPATH GEI SOC v7 certified and works extensively with the transgender and non-binary community. She has worked with over 600 transgender and non-binary clients and has an interest in working with clients who are agnostic, atheist and non-religious, particularly when they had a religious upbringing. Leikam is a secular therapist who is a part of the secular therapist network with experience working with clients through religious trauma and reclaiming spirituality as well as working with non-religious clients. She has a learning platform, The LGBTQIA Clinician’s Learning Platform, and teaches continuing education locally to therapists in Georgia and South Carolina. Leikam also has been published in multiple news outlets, including Huffington Post and Prevention magazine.

Cost and Registration

The cost for this online webinar is $100 per person. Registrants will receive an email with the webinar link and instructions at least one day prior to the event.

Continuing Education Credit

Licensed professional counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists: Willowbrooke at Tanner has been approved for five hours of continuing education (CEs) through the Licensed Professional Counselors Association of Georgia (LPCA of GA).