Navigating Clinical Care & Ethics for Trans/Gender Expansive Clients in Behavioral Health

Description

Trans/Gender Expansive (TGE) clients are increasingly seeking behavioral health services, and providers often struggle to meet their nuanced needs in an ethically sound way. This timely course offers the guidance and insights you need to offer truly affirming and ethically responsible care.

In a rapidly evolving clinical environment, you deserve tools and strategies that address the unique challenges of working with TGE clients. Join us and discover a supportive path toward honing your ethical decision-making and enhancing the quality of care you provide.

Gus Raymond, LMHC, CADC, NCC, leads this engaging session with both professional expertise and personal insight. As a multi-racial transgender man in long-term recovery, Gus’s life and career experiences uniquely position him to illuminate key ethical, clinical, and cultural considerations for serving TGE clients. His academic background, ongoing doctoral research in Sociology, and years of practice in mental health and substance counseling solidify him as a trusted authority on these topics.

Combining personal storytelling with case illustrations, Gus provides a real-world framework for understanding and applying ethical guidelines in TGE care. By exploring everyday realities, discussing clinical challenges, and drawing from multiple professional codes of ethics, you will leave with a comprehensive toolkit to facilitate safer, more inclusive treatment sessions.

Key Takeaways:

• Ethical Guidelines Mastery: Gain clarity on core ethical standards from the ACA, NAADAC, NASW, and APA specifically tailored to TGE care.
• Gender-Affirming Strategies: Learn practical methods for creating supportive, culturally competent therapeutic environments that respect each client’s identity and autonomy.
• Enhanced Clinical Understanding: Deepen your grasp of TGE clients’ lived experiences, enabling more accurate clinical conceptualization and improved therapeutic outcomes.

Why this course?

• Expert-Led Instruction: Learn directly from a practitioner-researcher whose lived experience and academic pursuits inform best practices for TGE care.

  Holistic Ethical Focus: Address both clinical and systemic factors, ensuring your interventions align with professional ethics and client well-being.

  Supportive Learning Community: Telehealth Certification Institute’s mission and values foster an environment of collaboration, integrity, and growth, setting you up for success.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify and articulate at least three key ethical guidelines from the ACA, NAADAC, NASW, and the APA related to the mental health care of transgender clients.
• List and explain at least 5 strategies for providing gender-affirming care that align with ethical standards for working with transgender clients.
• Develop a much greater and more intimate understanding of clients with/of transgender experience to aid clinical conceptualization and clinical approach for TGE clients.

By immersing yourself in this interactive training, you will refine your clinical practice and join a broader movement of professionals dedicated to ethical, inclusive care. We invite you to explore the nuanced paths toward supporting TGE clients more effectively and helping them thrive.

Format and Access

This is a non-interactive, self-study course.  Instruction consists of 3 hours of video instruction and a post-test.

Course Details

Availability: 

From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework.

Who Should Attend: 

This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services. This continuing education course is designed for licensed behavioral health professionals.

Teaching Methods: 

This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation.

How to Attend: 

Course access and completion instructions.

Instructor and Disclosures

Instructor

About Gus Raymond, LMHC, CADC, NCC

Gus is a certified alcohol and drug counselor practicing in the rural northwest corner of the state of Iowa. He currently works as a mental health therapist and substance counselor in private practice. He completed his master's in clinical mental health from Adler University in Chicago, IL., and is currently a Ph.D. student in Sociology at the University of Iowa pursuing research related to cultural and community support for marginalized populations.

Gus specializes in marginalized populations, particularly LGBTQ+ and immigrant/refugee communities. As a multi-racial transgender man, he is no stranger to diversity and forms of oppression, particularly in the world of education and mental health services. Gus also has lived experience with substance use disorder, from which he celebrates nearly two decades of recovery. He offers professional development training in restorative practices that are equitable and just, workshops on cultural humility and education, and working with multicultural youth experiencing substance and mental health difficulties.

Disclosure Statement: 

The instructor(s) for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose.

CE Hours

Credit Hours:

This course consists of 3 ethics continuing education hours of credit.

Counselors:

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No, 6693.  Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. #MHC-0048.

Marriage and Family Therapists:

Many MFT licensing boards accept our courses or one of the approvals which we have from professional associations.  You can check with your board to determine if your licensing board would accept this course.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0135, effective May 8, 2025.

Social Workers:

Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, #1609, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 05/02/2024 – 05/02/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 3 ethics continuing education credits.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers #SW-0435.

Addiction Professionals:

This course has been approved by Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits, effective 10/15/2025. NAADAC Provider #193104, Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is responsible for all aspects of the programming.

Psychologists:

Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Telehealth Certification Institute LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Psychologists #PSY-0128.

Art Therapists:

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Creative Arts Therapists #CAT-0093.

Other Professionals:

This course qualifies for 180 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations.  Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.

This course is a non-interactive, online self-study.

Participants may request a printed version of their certificate of completion to be delivered by mail. A shipping/handling fee of $6.95 will be charged per request. Shipping internationally may require an additional charge.

Accommodations and Policies

Close Captioning is available for live webinars and recorded video presentations.

You can click on the following links to view our policies:

• Accommodations for Individuals with Disabilities.
• Cancellation Policy
• Grievance Policy
• Support Options
• Disclosure Statement