Therapy First
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Non-profit supporting therapists to provide robust, individual care for gender dysphoric youth. We counter the ideological excess of the gender affirming model.
Joined December 2021
🎨✨Young people should be supported to explore gender creatively, without being rushed down a medical pathway. Our Clinical Guide for Therapists Working with Gender-Questioning Youth explains how this might be part of a therapeutic process with an adolescent client.
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RT @JuliaMasonMD1: About all these gender clinic closures, @LGBCourage has an important point:
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A calm, informative thread by @LGBCourage - if you’re looking for mental health support for your child, our online directory of therapists is here:.
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Our objective is to facilitate the connection between potential clients and therapists worldwide who work with gender dysphoria and share alignment with the principles outlined in Therapy First's...
🧵Parents and their children should be reassured that time, open communication, and developmentally appropriate mental health care are powerful tools. Many young people who experience gender distress eventually desist, or come to terms with their biological sex, particularly.
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🗓️ Our webinar, "A Social History of Estrogen and Testosterone" with Bob Ostertag is happening on MONDAY 11 AUGUST at 4pm EDT - book tickets ⬇️.
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This webinar will review the history of what people have believed about estrogen and testosterone, how they acted on those beliefs, how those beliefs changed over time, and how we […]
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✨💻 Estrogen and testosterone are powerful pharmaceutical tools, which have become deeply entangled with ideas of gender and sexuality. Our August webinar with BOB OSTERTAG, author of Sex Science Self: A Social History of Estrogen, Testosterone, and Identity, will look at the
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Thank you for joining us @SashaLPC - we are also optimistic. And we are greatly enjoying your nuanced and informative series of videos 🙏.
How do online trans communities deal with doubts, questions, or desistance (coercion and social pressure)?. Yesterday I attended a fantastic @TherapyFirstOrg workshop by researcher @elizamondegreen about this very topic. And at times, it felt dismal. Every doubt and question.
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The Guide is a comprehensive resource for professionals, but many families have also used it to inform their approach to a child's gender distress. Download the Guide here:.
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Therapy First has a community of mental health professionals, where you can share resources, exchange ideas and build relationships.
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RT @donoharm: "The safest approach is to allow children to mature naturally rather than pursue treatments with lasting consequences, especi….
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💻✨TOMORROW: "Questions and Doubts in Online Trans Communities". Join Therapy First and Sarah Mittermaier to explore how online trans communities handle questions and doubts about gender dysphoria, trans identification, and transition/detransition. Tickets available here:
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RT @ActiveLesbians: So pleased to be able to support Jillian Spencer in her work to keep children's safeguarding up to standard, particular….
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TUESDAY: Join us for our July webinar, "Questions and Doubts in Online Trans Communities".
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Webinars from Therapy First - trainings for mental health clinicians working with young people who are questioning their identity. Members have free access to previous training recordings.
⁉️How do online trans communities react when one of their own expresses doubt?. Join SARAH MITTERMAIER for our July webinar: Questions and Doubts in Online Trans Communities. Doubts are regularly raised within online trans communities about trans identity, medical transition,
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A young person who presents to a therapist with gender dysphoria will require the same comprehensive initial assessment applicable to ALL clients seeking therapy. Unfortunately, we are now at the point where this is far from the norm.
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RT @VTDC802: Despathy: A mother’s plea for her daughter. “Our 20-year-old daughter admitted to us that she had sta….
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Part 3 in 4-part series, ‘Mutilation or Healthcare?’
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Tickets for our July webinar, "Questions and Doubts in Online Trans Communities" are available here:.
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👩🏼💻Online trans communities have evolved concepts members can use to raise questions and share doubts. In our webinar on TUESDAY 22ND JULY at 12pm EDT, Sarah Mittermaier will take us through her research with these communities. She will explain how concepts like internalized
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RT @robjessel16: In news you may have missed, a UN report just told the truth about gender dysphoria. https://t.co….
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RT @segm_ebm: 🚨 A new SEGM Digest is out! Youth gender medicine is transforming rapidly. Due to weak evidence, the focus is now shifting to….
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