Episode 449: Colette Dalton, Gay Latter-day Saint, LCSW

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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My friend Colette Dalton (Masters of Social Work from BYU, worked for the Church, now therapist at Symmentry Solutions) share her journey as a gay/queer Latter-day Saints. Colette shares her journey to understand her sexual orientation, navigating being queer and a Church employee and her work as a therapist. If you are a queer women or parent of a queer daughter, Colette’s insights will help you. And if you are someone who wants to better understand queer Latter-day Saints to help them move forward, or someone working though suicidal ideation, or wanting to strengthen your relationships, Colette’s insights will help you. Thank you Colette for being on the podcast. Your good heart, story and clinical experience helps so many

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.0	I've been getting a few messages and it's a good suggestion I've been getting to have more women on the podcast.
0:16.0	I think we've done a string of men talking about their experience being queer or LGBTQ.
0:23.0	We've had far less women.
0:24.4	So I have some women coming on the podcast because their stories are equally as valid.
0:29.3	And in my home today is Colette Dalton.
0:31.4	Welcome to the podcast, Colette.
0:33.0	Thanks for having me.
0:34.4	Colette is somebody I've gotten to know over the last couple of years, just a wonderful,
0:37.8	incredibly talented woman, and I'll do my best to introduce her, and she can, whatever,
0:44.6	after I was correct, add to, subtract. But Colette is in her early 30s. She identifies as
0:51.7	gay or queer or lesbian. She'll talk more about that. She has had this
0:56.1	long journey in BYU and the church system contributing in many ways. She got her bachelor's at
1:02.9	BYU. She got a master's in social work at BYU and then has been working for the church,
1:10.3	worked for Ensign College.
1:12.6	They used to be LDS Business School managing their help counseling and therapy,
1:17.6	and has recently left and is now a therapist at Symmetry Solutions.
1:23.6	So one of the things Colette will have insight on is being an LGBTQ Latter-day Saint is that journey, but also being a marriage and family therapist, to license clinical social worker.
1:36.0	She will have insights on what she's doing to help others.
1:39.4	So it's kind of this academic life she has plus her own personal experience, plus the clinical skills in
1:46.2	real life situations to help others. So most of the time we don't like script out these
1:51.8	podcasts. We just say a prayer and I turn it over to my guest to kind of share their story.
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