Dr. St.Claire offers workshops for mental health and medical professionals on the mental health issues associated with gender identity, transgender, and transsexual issues. Her presentations
- Who is the transgender client? (descriptions, language, definitions, etc).
- A model of trans-affirmative collaborative care, using humanistic and experiential approaches, unique to this population.
- Assessment: The controversy over psychiatric diagnosis of Gender Identity Disorder.
- Counseling: The role of the therapist.
- WPATH Standards of Care. The controversy over the therapist in the role of gatekeeper to necessary medical treatments.
- Evidence-Based Practices: What do we know from trans research?
- Children and Adolescent Clients and their parents and families.
- Assessing and managing suicide risk in trans-clients: Trans-specific risk and protective factors.
- Developmental issues of child, adolescent younger adult and older adult trans clients.
- Primer on cross-sex hormone treatment and sex affirming surgeries ("sex reassignment surgery")
- Results of outcome studies.
- Groupe counseling for trans-clients.
- The effect of stigmatization on mental health of transgender people.
- Discrimination in the workplace and transgender civil rights.
- Phone: 720-220-5770
- Email: transgendersoul@mac.com
- Office: Denver Colorado in Capitol Hill