Advanced Concepts in Gender Affirming Mental Healthcare

Program Details: 

This 3-hour live virtual training will expand upon basic competencies to develop an advanced understanding of mental healthcare experiences of gender diverse populations and our role as mental health providers in mitigating disparities and decreasing barriers to help-seeking. This is an intermediate level training, assuming prior training and/or experience with gender diversity, particularly related to language and basic concepts. This training will summarize relevant data regarding disparities in healthcare faced by gender diverse populations and variables related to clinician competencies to work with gender diverse populations. 

Participants will be exposed to a comprehensive review of relevant research data published between 2020-2025, with an emphasis on clinical applications of said data to increase gender diverse competencies, reduce disparities, and increase access to affirming mental health services. Information covered will include: factors mitigating or amplifying disparities (and our role as providers), barriers to care (and our role as providers), a review of Microaggression Theory and Minority Stress Theory as applied to psychological practice with gender diverse populations, diagnostic considerations and pitfalls, and collateral treatment considerations for minors, adults, and geriatric populations.

Learning Objectives: 

1. Identify the professional, legal and ethical issues related to providing gender affirming healthcare.

2. List disparities faced by gender diverse populations, and factors which either amplify or mitigate those disparities.

3. Analyze relevant research to identify diagnostic comorbidities, considerations, and pitfalls.

Costs: 

Professionals (with 3 CE credits): $225.00 USD

Students (without CE credits): $75.00 USD

Continuing Education Credits: 

Valued Directions is seeking approval to offer this program for continuing education credit under APA. Please check back for updates.

Advanced Concepts in Gender Affirming Mental Healthcare, (ACE course number 6365), is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by Valued Directions Psychological Services as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 6/30/25-6/30/27. Social workers completing this course receive 3 (three) general continuing education credits.

Advanced Concepts in Gender Affirming Mental Healthcare has been approved by NBCC for NBCC credit. Valued Directions Psychological Services is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. NBCC Approval No. SP-4967.

To be eligible for CE credits all participants must attend the full duration of the program, complete the program evaluation, and complete the post-test with a score of at least 75% within at least 3 attempts. 

Instructor: 

Chassitty N. Fiani, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist with over a decade of experience specializing in affirming clinical work, conducting research, and educating other providers on topics related to multicultural competence in mental health with an emphasis on the provision of gender affirming mental healthcare. They are a queer and transgender/nonbinary provider, integrating research and evidence-based practice with the lens of lived experience to provide high quality trainings with the goal of increasing accessibility of gender affirming care.

We have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

Policies & Procedures: 

This program will not be recorded, and recording by participants will not be permitted. Powerpoint slides will be provided. AI notetakers will not be permitted. Violation of these policies will result in removal from the call without refund or re-entry. 

Registration will close 4 hours prior to program start. 

Accommodations must be discussed with the program sponsor at least 1 week (7 calendar days) in advance of the scheduled program. Closed Captioning is available to all participants without advance request and can be self-enabled by participants at any time during the program. Please email Cfiani@ValuedDirections.org to discuss additional accessibility needs. 

Refunds are unavailable within 1 week (7 calendar days) of program inception. Refund requests initiated at least 1 week prior to the program must be submitted in writing to Cfiani@ValuedDirections.org. Transaction fees will be subtracted from the total refund in the amount of 5.0% per refund. 

Program Details: 

Target Audience: mental health providers (e.g., psychologists, social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, etc.)

Course Level: intermediate

Course Interactivity: live, virtual, interactive (synchronous)

Delivery Method: synchronous audio/video via Google Meet or similar platform

Supplemental 1:1 and group consultation is available on this and related topics. 

For 1:1 consultation, email Cfiani@ValuedDirections.org.

For group consultation, click the button below to register & see website below for more details.

Additional trainings available: 

Gender 101 for Mental Health Clinicians

Writing Letters of Support for Gender Affirming Healthcare