Hello, I'm Dr. Stephen Hassan with another episode of my podcast called Conversations,

The Influence Continuum, with me, Dr. Steve Hassan.

And I have a scholar and colleague and new friend with me.

Matthew Skinta is an associate professor of psychology and

affiliated faculty of women and gender studies at Roosevelt University, which is located in Chicago.

Matthew, I met you at a Harvard psychedelicisted psychotherapy conference where you presented and I presented,

and I just thought, would you please come on my podcast and share your expertise? Because I thought

your presentation was really important, valuable.

And my listeners know that I support LGBTQ trans rights and human rights of all kind,

women's rights, indigenous rights, minority religion rights, etc.

Just a few more laudatories about you before we jump in.

You're a peer-reviewed trainer of acceptance and commitment therapy,

a certified teacher of the compassion, cultivation, training.

I'm going to ask you to talk about that.

You've written and edited books on affirmative psychotherapy to mitigate the effects of sexual and gender minority stress, offered clinical consultations and psychotherapy workshops

around the world.

And your work is at the cutting edge of what the Trump administration is trying to stamp out

in their aggressive, regressive.

You know, we only have two sexes, you know, homophobic, xenophobic, and all the other

phobic stuff that they're pushing.

And so we're both, putting our integrity out there for the planet to hear

what we human rights people therapists think is really important for how we can live on a planet

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