When I listen to therapists I feel like we are often divided into extreme camps that won't talk to each other. In parenting there's the positive parenting approach which says your kid just needs love and encouragement and there's the structured discipline approach which says do steps 1-6 and that will solve the problem. Don't we need both loving encouragement and structured expectations to help kids thrive? We have body positive therapists that encourage fat acceptance and th

Therapists routinely engage in conversations about how to best support their clients. This means keeping up with research, consulting with peers, and paying attention to what our clients stated needs are. I recently attended training about unpublished research that highlighted complex issues for those who have chosen to detransition. A significant piece of this work focused on unpublished research MacKinnon, K.R., Khan, N., Newman, K. Exposito-Campos, P., Marshall, G, Gould,

Many of my clients come to me years after their child has come out as "trans." Parents often describe thinking it was initially a phase, then they took their child to a gender affirming therapist who encouraged the parents to affirm and the mental health concerns the parents had got worse instead of better. Then the parents go on a rabbit hole of trying to understand what's going on and what is going to help their child who is often struggling with social anxiety, unmanageabl