LGBTQ2IA+ Advocacy and Activism in Counseling

This episode is eligible for CE credit - Counselors & Social Workers

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Today's episode features Dr. Brittany Bate, a psychologist and activist for LGBTQ2IA+ rights. We address treatment approaches that center the unique needs and challenges of LGBTQ2IA+ folx, advocacy strategies, and practical approaches to effective intervention.

Learning Objectives

• Identify differences between gender identity and expression
• Consider common gender blind spots counselors may have
• Examine the complicated relationship between psychotherapy's history and the LGBTQ2IA+community
• Distinguish specific strategies for advocating along with issues to target.

Meet Our Guest

Dr. Bate is the owner of Be BOLD Psychology and Consulting, a queer-centered group practice offering mental health services throughout North Carolina. As a queer-identified psychologist, Dr. Bate’s clinical practice, advocacy work, training, and consultation is centered upon improving access to culturally competent, affirming, inclusive care for queer+ folx, including transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse folx. Her practice is centered on providing psychotherapy and letters for gender affirming care for transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse individuals. She holds membership in several professional organizations and peer consult groups centered on regular consultation on best practices in providing gender affirming care. She was also an active contributor in authoring three statements based on psychological science to oppose the North Carolina General Assembly anti-transgender legislation.