96 — Official Launch: Clinical Guide for Therapists Working with Gender-Questioning Youth
Gender: A Wider Lens
Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley
4.6 • 961 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
NOTE: Since this episode’s original air date, the Gender Exploratory Therapy Association has updated their name to be Therapy First.
Two other members of GETA’s leadership team join Sasha and Stella for this special episode: Jungian Analyst, Lisa Marchiano and psychoanalyst, Joe Burgo join to discuss the new Clinical Guide that will be officially launched on December 3rd 2022.
GETA, the Gender Exploratory Therapy Association and other groups have worked together to produce this guidance, which provides a loose framework for skilled and ethical therapists who are interested in depth-oriented work with gender-related distress. The launch of this document will be paired with a ground-breaking free workshop for any interested clinicians who want to learn how to work with gender issues in an ethical, exploratory fashion.
Links:
Dec 3rd Launch Event: https://bit.ly/GETADecember
GETA, the Gender Exploratory Therapy Association: www.genderexploratory.com
Extended Notes
The group shares why they believe GETA should exist.
Gender can feel like an exception to everything you know for clinicians and therapists.
GETA is a psychological approach to psychological problems.
GETA created a thorough clinical guide for therapists who work with gender-questioning youth.
The new guide is not a model for working with gender dysphoria. It leaves room for different approaches.
The group discusses what the guide is and what it is not.
The guide includes full-assessment guidance.
This opens up further discussions around gender.
The guide looks at what a true, informed assessment is.
Gender exploratory therapy is not conversion therapy.
There is a difference between the clinical side to look at things and the political.
The guidelines will be free on the GETA website and will be launched with a webinar.
Clinicians who are considering joining GETA are welcome.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to gender, a wider lens. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Stella O'Malley, a psychotherapist in Ireland. |
| 0:06.5 | And I'm Sasha Ayad, an adolescent therapist in the United States. |
| 0:10.6 | Since 2016, my practice has been exclusively dedicated to gender questioning teens |
| 0:16.1 | and families impacted by gender dysphoria. |
| 0:19.0 | I also work with gender questioning teenagers and I facilitated support meetings for families and |
| 0:24.2 | individuals who have been impacted by gender issues. We're curious about the |
| 0:28.0 | concept of gender and how it's unfolding in the wider culture. Join us as we look at gender through a wider lens. |
| 0:35.0 | Well, hello there, Sasha. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello there, Stella. |
| 0:41.0 | So we have a couple of special familiar guests with us today. We'd like to introduce two of the members of the Gender Exploratory Therapy Association, Lisa Marciano and Joe Burgo. |
| 0:54.6 | Welcome back to the program. |
| 0:56.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:57.3 | It's great to be here. |
| 0:58.5 | Thank you. |
| 0:59.3 | Nice to be here. |
| 1:00.2 | So we wanted to have you on today |
| 1:02.3 | to kind of talk about a couple of important things and we thought we could start out by just |
| 1:08.5 | We've talked a lot about get us throughout our various episodes, Stella. |
| 1:12.8 | And it's often in passing, but we really wanted to explain |
| 1:16.6 | a little bit more about the organization, |
| 1:18.9 | why we exist, who we are, and then share kind of an exciting announcement about an important launch that we are doing. |
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