Workshop Description:

This training presents an integrative framework for working with LGBTQIA+ individuals impacted by trauma, chronic stress, identity-based harm, and multiple forms of marginalization. Moving beyond exclusively cognitive approaches, the training explores how trauma, rejection, chronic vigilance, and minority stress are experienced emotionally, physiologically, relationally, and within the body.

Participants will examine the multi-layered impact of trauma on overall mental health and functioning while learning practical strategies to support emotional regulation, embodiment, resilience, identity development, and adaptive coping. The training will also explore the role of movement, sensory experiences, spirituality, social connection, and integrative wellness factors in supporting healing and long-term stabilization.

Through lecture, experiential exercises, guided reflection, and case-based application, participants will develop a multidimensional treatment approach that supports comprehensive, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive care for LGBTQIA+ communities with intersecting identities and lived experiences.

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Learning Objectives:

1. Examine the impact of minority stress, identity-based trauma, and intersectional marginalization on LGBTQIA+ mental health and functioning.

2. Apply assessment and intervention approaches for LGBTQIA+ trauma survivors through a lens of cultural humility.

3. Implement anti-oppressive and culturally sensitive, integrative approaches to trauma treatment.