Clinical Work with Trans and Non-Binary People:

A Psychodynamic Perspective

VIA ZOOM

3 CEU: LSW/LCSW, LPC/LCPC, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST

Clinicians are increasingly tasked to expand their clinical thinking and challenge outdated, cultural frames around gender and sexuality. Those cultural frames can become embedded in both our clinical thinking and ways of engaging in the session room.

While psychodynamic theories help us achieve depth and insight into our patients’ experiences, some of those paradigms require interrogation to disband pathologizing belief systems and platform a truly empathic and empowering therapy.

ICSW is proud to host three presenters with notable experience investigating these topics:

They will address ways to mitigate clinicians' inevitable bias and prejudice, address the tensions of the cultural binary in clinical work, and dive into dynamics of clinical process with adults, children, and their families. Case examples will be used to illustrate the complexity of the work, especially countertransference.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Louis Pansulla MSW, LCSW is a relational psychoanalyst practicing in Brooklyn, NY, whose wide scope of practice includes specialties in gender and sexual identities, embodiment, trauma, couples work, and groups. Mr. Pansulla is a faculty member at ICSW (Chicago), the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (NY), and the Chinese American Psychoanalytic Association (China). He is a co-investigator of NIH supported, published research examining the intersections of Black and Latino MSM men and the confluence of childhood sexual abuse. He is also contributing to an upcoming psychoanalytic text working with transgender and non-binary individuals.

Marco Posadas, MSW, RSW is a psychoanalyst and inaugural Chair of the Gender and Sexual Diversity Studies Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association, chair of the Scientific Program of the Advanced Training Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society, and is on faculty at the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis. He focuses on anti-oppressive practice in psychoanalysis, including research on prejudices impacting the analyst when working with LGBTQ, racialized populations, and other marginalized communities who have survived trauma.

Gabriel Ruiz, LCPC is a psychoanalyst working with children, adolescents and adults. He has done extensive work investigating clinical work with trans and non-binary people. He is on the faculty of ICSW, the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, and visiting faculty at the Saint Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. His clinical interests focus on development, dreams, and issues of difference.

Cost: $140 General - $40 Students

This presentation may be used towards your cultural competency credits.

This presentation will not be recorded

QUESTIONS?

If you have any questions about registration or need any additional information,

please contact Elree C. Smith at esmith@icsw.edu or (773) 943-6506