Helping clinicians and group practices go from cautious to confident in working with trans & gender diverse clients
The most comprehensive program you’ll find on trans-affirming care.
Guaranteed.
Here’s Transcend Competency at a Glance:
This course content goes DEEP, but it also:
Provides you with regular Q&A calls to ask questions, practice, make mistakes, & learn with others
Gives you personalized feedback on your own website, client-facing materials, and office policies
Shows you how to become an effective ally for the queer & trans community
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Overview of trans & gender diverse communities & people from ancient times to present day
How the gender binary came to be a powerful cultural idea, and WHO and WHAT that served
Deeper dive into transgender history from Victorian Era to Stonewall
Transgender history continued: US social & medical advances: Stonewall to present day
Critical analysis of the problems involved with medicalizing trans identities
Exploring our own internal biases & programming about gender from our culture
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Fundamental understandings about a trans experience
Breaking the Binary: Level 1: Sex
The Intersex community & the complexities of sex differentiation (By guest lecturer & Intersex activist Hans Lindahl)
Breaking the Binary Level 2: Gender
Fundamentals of Allyship (includes extensive review of trans & nonbinary terminology)
Review and challenge our cis-heteronormative cognitive distortions that serve as roadblocks to progress
All things terminology & pronouns, and how to evolve as language inevitably changes
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This module teaches important attitudes and practices associated with allyship to the LGBTQIA+ community. We go deeper into definitions of terms & how to use them, as well as more direct & actionable advice on what to say, what not to say, & why.
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Marketing messages: How to make your website & online presence communicate inclusivity & safety
Forms Framework: How to create inclusive client registration/intake forms
Administrative practices: Optimizing phone, email, and front desk protocols
In-person considerations: bathrooms, signage, & employee nondiscrimination (one of the best signs of trans inclusivity is trans/gender diverse staff)
How to maintain accurate and affirming client data in electronic health systems
Direct one-on-one support offered here on:
Editing & restructuring your intake forms
Comprehensive review & recommendations for website or online presence (Psychology Today, e.g.)
Strategizing on how to maintain client data in electronic health systems
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Taking an inclusive comprehensive health/mental health history
What it means to have an LGBTQIA+ trauma-informed approach
Consent talk by Radiance Romesberg
How to avoid trans broken arm syndrome (and other biases)
Direct one-on-one support offered here in the form of:
Mock client interviews (recorded or non-recorded) with individualized feedback on how you’re coming across
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Review of nonmedical gender affirmation & common challenges for adults
Complete guide to name & gender marker changes (with resources to provide directly to your clients and/or on your website)
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Introduction to hormone treatment for trans folks
Testosterone-based regimens: risks, benefits, common side effects, and expected effects
Estrogen and progesterone-based regimens: risks, benefits, common side effects, and expected effects
Psychiatric effects of hormone therapy, and how to talk about this with clients
For prescribing providers: Deeper dive into HRT - monitoring parameters, typical dosing ranges, drug-drug interactions
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Comprehensive review of more than 25 gender-affirming surgical procedures
Common risks, benefits, outcomes of gender-affirming surgeries
Typical processes involved to obtain insurance authorization for surgery
Review of nonsurgical (or less invasive medical) interventions for gender affirmation
Review WPATH Soc 8 criteria for writing behavioral health letters for gender-affirming surgery
Resources provided:
Behavioral health letter templates for multiple gender-affirming surgeries
Multiple patient care documents, informed consents, and information about specific procedures & insurance requirements
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Supporting trans/gender diverse clients in navigating family relationships
How to support gender-expansive youth and their parents/families
Special considerations & nuances in working with gender diverse adolescents
The science and practice of gender-affirming healthcare for adolescents
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Discuss prevalence of neurodivergent-identified clients within trans/gender diverse community
Discuss what a neurodiversity-affirming paradigm of care means, particularly with autistic clients
Special guest lecturer who is an expert clinician and educator on neurodiversity-affirming care paradigms
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Discuss prevalence of many under-recognized and underdiagnosed medical conditions in the trans/gender diverse population
Emphasize history of medical gaslighting in clients’ medical experiences and how to take a medical trauma-informed approach
Review of the following medical conditions, as well as assessment paradigms, treatment protocols, & how to refer clients to appropriate care:
POTS/dysautonomia spectrum conditions
Mast Cell Activation Syndrome
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)
Ehler’s Danlos Syndrome
Fibromyalgia
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Discuss allyship & activism: how to get involved on a larger scale
Media literacy & training - how to spot subtly anti-trans media & best practices for engaging with the media
How to communicate your skills and knowledge with other professionals, network effectively, and help the field become more trans-affirming
Upon program completion, receive a certificate and unique code to embed on your website, detailing the extensiveness of this program, increasing your credibility to potential clients & colleagues
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Twice-monthly group Q&A calls with Jess Romeo and other group members. Intentionally-created safe space to:
Ask clinical/case questions
Practice use of new terminology
Learn with (and from) like-minded others
Build a network of providers on the same journey as you
Community discussion forum to:
Ask clinical/case questions
Connect with colleagues
Discuss course content
Share your wins & experiences
Direct Support & Feedback on:
Marketing/online presence
Structuring intake and all client-facing forms for trans-inclusivity
Maintaining client demographic data for inclusivity & accuracy
How you may come across in clinical scenarios: mock interviews with course administrators who are experts in working with the trans/gender diverse community
Resources
Access to all templates I use in my trans-affirming psychiatric practice
Treatment protocols discussed in above sections
Gender-affirming surgery letter templates
Complete guide to name/gender marker change
Several handouts/references on terminology, what to say/what not to say
Books & online sources used in building content for this program
PDFs of all slide presentations
Networking & Outreach
Trans-Affirming Provider Resource List: get your practice listed on a coveted resource list of trans-affirming providers
Coaching & support on how to network with existing specialists in the LGBTQIA+ community so they can learn that you exist!