Is your entire team providing competent and affirming care?
Trauma-Informed Care and Gender Affirming care should be synonymous when providing safe and ethical care for all clients, which requires both introductory and continuous learning. This workshop offers a full, comprehensive overview of both Trauma-Informed Care and Gender Affirming care, to create affirming practices for all clients, including those who are transgender, non-binary, and gender-expansive. We will explore how to create trust and transparency, build safer emotional spaces, and learn how to support each other through current changes to Gender Affirming Care.
Our Workshops
Our Gender Affirming Care Workshops can be applied across many fields and occupations. It’s important that every staff member in your organization is trained, as it’s often first point of contact who set the tone for the entire program. A well-trained and affirming customer service representative will often be the deciding factor on whether or not a client decides to receive care through your program. If you are training your clinical staff, you have to also train your support staff.
Whether your team needs a comprehensive introduction to Gender Affirming Care, or a deep dive into trauma-informed care principles and standards of care, we can curate a workshop to meet your organizational needs.
Comprehensive Introduction to Gender Affirming Care: 6 Hours
Integrating Gender Affirming Care into Trauma-Informed Care: 4-12 Hours
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Dr. Scott and his team have provided training to thousands of professionals around the world including various programs in the Philadelphia area such as:
- Mirmont Treatment Center
- Mainline Health Systems
- Caron Treatment Center
- Pinelands Recovery Center
- Banyan Treatment Center
- Maryland Addiction Recovery Center
- Chester County Department of Human Services
- Women Organized Against Rape
- Spilove Psychotherapy
- Espenshade Counseling
- Manor of Hope
- Bryn Mawr College
- University of Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
- West Chester University
- Denver University
- New Mexico State University
- Columbia University
- Neumann University
- Antioch University
- Widener University
- Penn State University
- International Universities
Other Gender Affirming Care adjacent topics: Supporting LGBTQIA+ Survivors of Sexual Trauma, An Introduction to Gender Affirming Care, Diving Deeper into Gender Affirming Care
- Introduction to Sociometry, Psychodrama, and Experiential Trauma Therapy
- PTSD, CPTSD, Trauma-Informed Principles, and Post-Traumatic Growth
- The Intersection of Addiction and Trauma
- Experiential Group Treatment: Sociometry and Safety Structures
- An Experiential Trauma Therapy Clinical Map: Neurobiology and Safety
- Using Experiential Work to Transform Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, & Vicarious Trauma
- Working Experientially with Defenses in Addiction & Trauma Work
- Relational Trauma Repair: Psychosocial Metrics & Psychodrama-like Interventions
- Experiential Therapy Supervised Practice
- Psychodrama and Empty Chair Work in Individual Sessions
- Sociatry & Spirituality in Trauma and Addiction Work
- Strengths-based Experiential Work and the Empty Chair
- Role Theory, Doubling, and Attachment Theory
- Experiential Work with Loss, Ambiguous Loss, Traumatic Loss, and Resilience
- Group Work, Group Therapy, Mutual Aid, and the 12-steps
- Grief and Loss: Impacts on Clients and Staff
- The Aging Brain: When Dementia and Mental Health Overlap
- Introduction to Expressive Arts Therapies
- Healers’ Haven: Addressing Vicarious Trauma and Burnout
- Bringing IFS into Practice
- Other topics available upon request
The Phoenix Center is a pre-approved provider of CE Hours for National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC), American Psychological Association (APA), and the Pennsylvania boards of Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy, Professional Counseling, and Psychology. Any in-services trainings by Phoenix Center staff can provide these CEs plus training hours towards certifications in experiential therapy and psychodrama.
Our fee for organizational consultation or clinical training varies based on the nature of the organization, travel distance, number of participants, type of training, and workshop content. Workshops are individualized to meet your organizational needs/preferences and include the provision of CE hours and certificates. See fee schedule below:
- Small group workshops (under 35 people)
- $550/hr or $2750/day
- Large group workshops (35-75 people)
- $1000/hr or $4800/day
*Reduced cost offerings are provided to non-profit organizations and international communities on a limited basis. Write to us if cost is the only thing holding you back from working together!
Upcoming In-House Workshops
The Facilitator
Chris Klem, he/him, MS, has over a decade of experience designing and facilitating training programs for both large and small organizations. Some of his past training topics include: Trauma-Informed Care, Supporting LGBTQIA+ Clients (including Gender Affirming Care), Sexual Violence, Mandatory Reporting, Ethics and Values, Capacity & Competency, Aging-Related Care, and Caregiving. As a queer and trans educator, Chris believes ongoing continuing education is essential for all staff at an organization wanting to provide safe and affirming care to their clients and patients.
Adult learning and continuing education has been embedded in his professional career and has always been his favorite aspect of any role he has held. As someone who struggles with reading comprehension, he thrives with hands on learning, and strives to incorporate various learning techniques in his workshops. He also prioritizes practice-based and experiential learning. Knowing that some of the most valuable opportunities for learning arise from first-hand experience, he finds that all of us have valuable information to share, and knowledge doesn’t just come from formal education.
