Signature Series: Care Considerations & Understanding LGBTQ+ Grief by Queer Asterisk
A special presentation for Hospice Professionals, Clergy, Law Enforcement, First Responders, Victim’s Advocates, Therapists/Counselors, Volunteers, Companions, Death Doulas, Death Care Professionals, including Administrative and Leadership Professionals in these settings who wish to become better allies and supporters for LGBTQ+ individuals in our community.
This presentation will explore some of the unique challenges faced within the LGBTQ+ community and how that impacts the grief experience for this population, including barriers to inclusive care, complicated grief and disenfranchised grief, stigma and shame, and giving providers tools for providing a safe place for authentic expressions of self, grief and navigating healing through culturally competent practices and inclusive language.
Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Time: 8-10am (PT)/ 9-11am (MST)/ 10-12pm (CT)/ 11-1pm (EST)
location: Zoom
Registration Required. Certificate of Completion provided upon request to professionals in attendance.
About the Presenter:
Sorin Thomas
Executive and Clinical Director
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Sorin Thomas of Queer Asterisk
Sorin L. Thomas, MA, LPC, LAC, CGP, Founding and Executive Director of Queer Asterisk Therapeutic Services, is a queer and transgender Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Addictions Counselor, and Certified Group Psychotherapist with over a decade of professional experience in the field of psychology serving queer and transgender individuals and their families. Sorin has a Masters in Somatic Counseling Psychology from Naropa University and post-graduate experience in wilderness therapy, addiction recovery, adolescent and adult residential treatment, community based services, emergency psychiatric services, and hospital settings. In addition to offering queer-affirming counseling and clinical supervision, Sorin offers consultation and diversity, equity, and inclusivity trainings through a queer lens to mental health organizations, addiction recovery centers, social service agencies, hospitals, and schools.
I am a grief counselor in an Albuquerque-based hospice. I have several LGBTQ bereaved individuals, and I would benefit from this workshop/presentation. I am recommending the evening workshop to these individuals as well.
Putting a check in the mail for this donation related to the presentation on January 21
This offering from Sorin Thomas comes at an essential time both for myself as a professional in the field of counseling/supervising in grief and loss –and for our community–and country– as a whole.
I look forward to joining this Zoom to community for support and, particularly, learning more helps regarding complicated and disenfranchised grief.
Thank you!
This is an essential program offering at this time for me, personally, professionally, and , I believe for our communities as a whole. Thank you!