Education, Consultation & Resources

Education, Consultation, & Group Facilitation

I offer training and consultation individually catered to the needs of the client. Trainings range in time from 1 hour to full day workshops.

Topics I have provided training on for doctors, nurses, social workers, and counsellors in the past include:

Intro to Gender-Affirming Practice

Advanced Gender-Affirming Practice

Intro to 2SLGBTQIA+ community and terminology

Advanced Care with 2SLGBTQIA+ Communities

Topics I have presented on with community members:

A psycho-educational group for 2SLGBTQIA+ community members on Coping Skills for Anxiety & Depression

Trans Communities and Sexuality (for trans and Two-Spirit people and their partners)

Arts-based learning and peer-support for youth groups

Understanding STIs & HIV

Abridged Locations Where I have Provided Trainings, Consultation & Group Facilitation

Alberta Health Services:

Intro & Advanced gender-affirming care trainings with clinic staff at the Sheldon Chumir STI Clinic in Calgary

Intro & Advanced Gender-Affirming Practice Trainings with mental health clinicians at the Rockyview hospital Inpatient Psychiatry Unit in Calgary

Healthlink BC: provided feedback on "Baby's Best Chance" and "Toddler's First Steps" print resources from gender-affirming and 2SLGBTQIA+-Affirming perspectives

Bow Valley College: Introduction to trans and Two-Spirit Communities with college instructors & support staff

The Travelling Tickle Trunk: Taught Sexual health & pleasure workshops with trans and Two-Spirit communities and their partners

Trans, Two-Spirit & Gender Creative Resources

Trans Care BC: All things accessing Gender-Affirming Care in British Columbia (Hormones, Surgery, free voice classes for trans women and trans feminine people, and more)

QMUNITY: BC's 2SLGBTQIA+Resource Centre with support groups, free counselling, and more

Native Youth Sexual Health Network: Includes Two-Spirit resources

2-Spirit Collective Youth Group: at UNYA (Urban Native Youth Association) in Vancouver, BC

Trans Fertility Co: all about fertility and having children for transgender people

LEGIT Canada: Supports people who are immigrating to Canada to be with their Canadian partner

Rainbow Refugees: Support and Advocacy with LGBTQ+ Refugees

Prisoner Correspondence Project: Penpal connection for 2SLGBTQIA+ folks behind bars with those on the outside

Support Phone Lines & Other Counselling Options

Trans Lifeline: 1-877-330-6366

A peer support phone line for trans and gender diverse people, Canada and the US, 24/7

Mental Health Support Phone line: 1-800-784-2433

Mental health phone line, youth online chat options, Canada-wide, 24/7

Indigenous Wellness Phone line: 1-855-242-3310

Canada-wide, 24/7, chat option available

Healing in Colour: a Directory of Black, Indigenous and other People of Colour therapists in so-called Canada

First Nations Health Authority: Free Counselling Options for Indigenous people in so-called BC

Catherine White Holman Wellness Centre: Free Hormone Readiness Assessments & Surgical Readiness Assessments, legal resources, and more for trans folks facing barriers

PACE Society: Free counselling for Sex Workers, and a free "Gender Self-Determination Project" program for trans and gender-creative folks in BC who want to change their names of gender-markers legally

Counselling, Consulting & Education