Register for Asynchronous Webinar CEU Classes
All Courses are approved by The UGA School of Social Work for CEU’s for LCSW’s, LMSW’s, APC’s, LPC’s and LMFT’s and taught by Katie Leikam, LCSW, LISW-CP, WPATH GEI SOC v8 certified member.
Implementing WPATH SOC8 updates into your Transgender Affirming Practice
WPATH SOC8 was released in September of 2022. This is a 3-hour core CEU. Clinicians who work with the transgender community need to be aware of all the WPATH SOC8 changes and be able to implement the changes into their clinical practice with their client work. SOC8 made changes to multiple chapters as well as created new chapters that were not in SOC7. This CEU will make clinicians aware of the relevant changes to SOC8 and implement the gender affirming care into their clinical practices and client work. Clinician will be up to date on the WPATH standards of care after taking this CEU and will also understand if these changes have been implemented by insurance companies and doctors and surgeons.
Ethically Supporting Our Trans Youth Clients Through the Harm of Anti-Trans Legislation
Across the nation, anti-trans laws have been passed this year which in many cases prohibit gender affirming care and medical and/or surgical treatment to the transgender community, particularly youth under age 18. In GA SB140 was effective on July 1st, which stopped life saving care for our transgender clients that were not already receiving treatment of hormones or had already had surgery. Clinicians are now tasked with walking with our clients through this new climate of anti-trans laws towards the transgender community. What is your role as a clinician for your client and their family? How will these laws affect you and your license or ability to treat? How can you continue to affirm your transgender youth clients? All of these questions will be answered by Katie Leikam, LCSW, LISW-CP, WPATH GEI certified clinician, and taught during this informative CEU that every transgender affirming clinician needs to take.
Competent Clinical Care with the Transgender Community with SOC8 update
This 5-hour core CEU covers a brief overview of terms and definitions for the transgender community, explains the differences between sex and gender identity, and gender expressions. Clinicians will be able to write a letter of support for hormones and begin to understand how to write a letter for gender affirming surgeries including updates to SOC8. Clinicians will come to an understanding of how gender dysphoria interacts with co-occurring conditions, including case discussions. Clinicians will learn three clinical modalities to work with clients with gender dysphoria, including solution focused therapy, mindful self-compassion, and cognitive behavioral therapy.
LGBTQ Community and Spirituality: Religious Trauma and Incorporating Ethical Clinical Practices
Join Katie Leikam, LCSW as she teaches a 5-hour ethics CEU on the LGBTQ community and Spirituality: Religious Trauma and Incorporating Ethical Clinical Practices. LGBTQ clients have often experienced religious trauma in their youth and throughout their life. Clinicians should be able to recognize religious trauma syndrome in client and how to ethically respond to that trauma. This CEU will also address clinician’s own spirituality bias when working with LGBTQ clients who have experienced religious trauma. After taking this class clinicians will have ethically examined their own bias and learn how to ethically provide secular therapy if indicated as a desire by the client so as to not further harm LGBTQ clients. This CEU allows a clinician to
Clinical Work with Young Transgender Children
In this 3 hour CEU course you will come to understand the continuum of gender identity in children. You will understand gender identity and the stages of child development, You will learn to to talk to and include parents, youth groups, friends and schools in supporting transgender children including practicing. We will cover a multitude of clinical interventions for supporting transgender children.
Gender Identity and Autism: Competent Care
This 3 hour course gives an overview of the research of the occurrence of autistic transgender people and gives a history of the research available. Using positive methods, this course shows how to best support your autistic transgender clients as well as how to include family members in their child’s care. It provides an overview of a family session where parents may not believe their child is transgender and how to help them know their child is. The course also provides sound clinical interventions for working with autistic transgender clients.
In Person Presentations & Training
Katie Leikam, LCSW, LISW-CP is available to give presentations and training to your organization. Katie Leikam is a member of WPATH, The World Professional Association for Transgender Health and is WPATH GEI SOC v8 Certified, which is over 50 hours of transgender and non-binary health education. Katie has recieved hundreds of hours her own training including consultation with transgender and gender expansive clinicians. Katie is an affirming clinician who has worked with over 800 clients who are part of the transgender community. She is a previous speaker at many conferences, including The Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference and USPATH.
Katie will bring education and knowledge to your organization in a direct, easy to understand manner to facilitate education of transgender mental health awareness. Please contact Katie to request a presentation at your office by emailing katie@katieleikam.com.
Presentation topics include:
- Affirmation to transgender clients
- Co-occurring disorders
- Intake paperwork
- Working with the Transgender and Gender Expansive community
- Understanding the gender dysphoria diagnosis
- Clinical treatment modalities for gender dysphoria
- Cultural competence with gender diverse clients
- Intersectionality of transgender and LGBTQ clients
- Writing hormone and gender confirmation surgery letters
- Diversity in colleges or corporations with LGBTQ students and employees
