Pride in Your Practice: Incorporating the Tenets of Social Justice and Inclusion in Work with LGBTQ Individuals and Beyond

This essential course equips social workers and mental health professionals with the tools to create truly inclusive and affirming services. With therapist Katie Bingner, MS, LCPC as our guide, we’ll delve into recognizing diverse cultural values, beliefs, and practices within the LGBTQ+ community and beyond. Learn culturally sensitive communication and intervention strategies to ensure effective service delivery for all your clients. But inclusion goes deeper. We’ll explore how to identify and dismantle systemic barriers that create inequities for clients. You’ll gain the skills to advocate for policies and practices that promote social justice and dismantle discriminatory structures within systems and the broader community. We’ll also critically analyze the concepts of power, privilege, and oppression. Understanding how these factors impact your clients and how your own practice empowers you to be a more effective advocate and champion for positive change. Join us and build a practice that is truly inclusive and helps all clients to thrive!

Katie Bingner, LCPC is a trauma-informed licensed therapist and communication coach with a decade of clinical experience helping those struggling with anxiety, grief, identity development, and trauma. Katie is passionate about helping clients and professionals alike, find their authentic voice and build effective skills that improve their daily lives and help them reach their goals. Katie utilizes an integrative clinical approach in order to meet each client where they are at, employing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Parts work (IFS and structural dissociation model techniques), in conjunction with Somatic interventions from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. She also utilizes the highly effective Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) protocol to help clients who desire a non-verbal option for healing past trauma. Katie is experienced in working with diverse populations, including the LGBTQIA+ community and first responders, and offers training that blends clinical expertise with practical, relationship-focused strategies.