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Authentic Presence: Becoming a True Other for our LGBTQ+ Clients

Presenter: Leora Effinger-Weintraub, MSW, LGSW
1 CEU - may be counted as clinical, cultural responsiveness, or supervision

In this session, we’ll dive into the Triangle of Social Experience, from Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, to explore how our clients’ internal working models (IWM) are founded in attachment and social power dynamics. We’ll explore the concrete ways that our authentic presence and professional self-disclosure can help restructure these IWMs and facilitate healing. Leveraging the therapist’s authentic presence is especially effective to undo the pathogenic aloneness experienced by our LGBTQ+ clients living under societal oppression.

Presenter:

Leora (Lior) Effinger-Weintraub holds a Master of Social Work degree from St. Catherine University and is a Licensed Graduate Social Worker practicing psychotherapy with the LGBTQ+ community in the Twin Cities. Lior uses they/them pronouns and is a member of multiple historically marginalized communities: mixed-race, bisexual, queer, trans/nonbinary, and invisibly-disabled. Lior specializes in working with clients with complex experiences of trauma and dissociation, and acknowledges how LGBTQ+ lived experiences include traumas often unrecognized by cisheteronormative society. They have previously presented on trauma-informed conflict engagement at local conferences and often use their art to communicate and educate.

*Please check with the regulatory board in the state(s) where you are licensed to ensure this course meets continuing education requirements.