Drawing on Joe's specialized experience with the LGBTQ community, Joe will equip you with the insight and education needed to improve your confidence and effectiveness in your work with LGBTQ clients - both adults and youth. 'The work is as much about education as psychotherapy.'ĭid you enjoy this video? You might also like Kort's online course LGBTQ Clients: Clinical Issues and Treatment Strategies for Youth and Adults.
'Therapists who work with this population have to follow their clients' leads,' Kort writes in his Networker article.
Therapists working with LGBTQ clients, he adds, should be neither a blank slate, nor consider themselves an expert in working with LGBTQ clients unless they've worked extensively with this population, have proper training, and remain nonjudgmental and open to new ideas and perspectives. Joe Kort, PhD, is a certified Imago therapist, licensed masters social worker, and author of LGBT Clients in Therapy: Clinical Issues and Treatment Strategies, and Is My Husband Gay, Straight, or Bi? A Guide for Women Concerned about Their Men.Īs Kort explains, the science around sex addiction is 'riddled with morality and religiosity and people's beliefs about what sex is or should be,' and therapists should tread carefully when examining older literature on treating of sexual issues.
