UPA Presents:

Contextualizing the Gender Divergent Experience: Learning How to Help Your Gender Diverse Clients in Troubling Times

Friday, May 30, 2025
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
4 CE credit hours
This will be a Zoom presentation

Course Description

This four-hour course provides in-depth learning across areas critical to understanding and providing competent care to gender diverse individuals. The primary focus will be providing foundational information for starting or continuing your journey to becoming a culturally competent provider for gender-diverse clients. While primarily introductory in nature, the course is also intended to provide valuable resources and ideas for clinicians at every level of experience and competency. The topics covered will include vocabulary and concepts critical to providing competent affirmative care, understanding of the broader cultural context effecting gender diverse individuals, discussion of guidance offered by professional organizations, examination of current events, exploration of religious policies related to gender divergent individuals, and an examination of how existing clinical practices can be applied to the clinical needs of gender diverse patients.

Learning Objectives:

Identify at least 4 proper and 4 improper vocabulary words for working with gender diverse individuals. Be able to identify at least 4 major gender diverse identities.

Be able to identify the major national and local laws impacting trans individuals. Be able to discuss in detail at least two major news events of the last 4 years related to gender diverse individuals.

Know where to locate WPATH Standards of Care Version 8, statements from professional organizations and identify at least 3 community resources available in Utah.

Identify a third wave CBT (DBT, ACT) concepts or intervention and how it addresses the therapeutic needs of the gender diverse individuals including identity development/early transition, internalized stigma and coping with minority stress.

Presenter Bio:

Dr. Marcy Porritt (She\They) received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Loma Linda University with a formal specialization in neuroscience and neuropsychology. Her clinical emphasis is assessment and treatment of severe psychopathology and developmental disorders in adults and children. Dr. Porritt’s work experience includes inpatient psychiatric hospitals, community mental health, homeless outreach, and Veterans Administration settings. She has worked at Huntsman Mental Health Institute and is currently employed at Primary Children’s where she splits her time between the acute inpatient units and outpatient clinic. Dr. Porritt identifies primarily as a contextual behavioral scientist focusing on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. Dr. Porritt is a member of the LGBTQ Affirmative Therapists Guild of Utah, has experience leading institutional DEI committees and is actively involved in issues of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Registration Fees:

Register online at:   www.utpsych.org  OR Call Teresa Bruce at 801-410-0337