TRANSITIONS COUNSELLING & CONSULTANCY
DEBUNKING GENDER IDENTITY
(A REFLECTIVE GUIDE TO GENDER IDENTITY COUNSELLING)
Counselling professionals are increasingly seeking training in preparation for working
with gender variant/ trans clients. Madison-Amy Webb (a woman from a gender variant history) invites you to consider a simple fact. That everyone has a gender identity, whether or not they’ve given it consideration.
This training day will invite attendees to begin exploring your own gender identity through a series of experiential/ reflective exercises such as “How was Your Gender Identity Shaped”, What kind of Man/ Woman are you?” and “Personal meaning” which will allow you to develop a deeper personal understanding. As counsellors and psychotherapists, we can then begin to relate to our clients in new and productive ways, thus gaining a more nuanced understanding of the issues faced by clients and their own identity. The day will also include group work, discussions, and phenomenological journaling.
The day will also explore the social impact of a lack of gender variance within our cultural ancestry, the need to embrace a form of Genderism, and we’ll also look at clinical techniques which offer new ways to connect with gender variant clients effectively. This is an essential training for any counselling professional, those working with gender variant clients, and those interested in gender matters.
Saturday 28thSeptember 10am until 4pm, the Albany Centre, St Albans
£65, inc light refreshments, training materials, CPD cert. 07891 400394 – [email protected]
Madison-Amy Webb (MBACP) Accred is a practicing psychotherapist and also trains other mental health professionals on how to support trans people. She lives in Peterborough, UK and is a WPATH Member. This training day takes its title from her book ‘A Reflective Guide to Gender Identity Counselling’ available May 2019- Jessica Kingsley Publishing.