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    Jordan Shin


    Friday, April 26, 2019, 9:00am-4:00 pm
    Working with Trans Clients
    Full day 5 CE training
    Presenter: Jordan Shin, PhD, MS, LPC
    Location: Mid-Willamette Family YMCA (conference room)
    3201 Pacific Boulevard, Albany, OR 97321
    Cost: EBHA members $125; Non-members $175
    Payment in the form of cash or check taken at the time of the event.

    TO REGISTER AND FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT info@ebhaipa.org

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    Workshop description:
    This workshop is a comprehensive presentation of the counselor competencies

    needed when working with trans clients. Organized around the principles of
    Multicultural Counseling Competencies proposed by the Association for
    Multicultural Counseling and Development, topics include:

    • socio-cultural context and subjective experience of being trans
    • history of the relationship between the trans community and helping professionals
    • accommodations and interventions
    • gender transitioning process
    • the role of helping professionals
    • interaction between comorbid conditions, trans identity, and the transitioning process
    Program:

    9:00 am Introduction and Basic Concepts
    9:50 Break
    10:00 Social and Historical Context
    10:50 Break
    11:00 Accommodations and Interventions
    12:00 Lunch
    1:00 pm Social Transitioning
    1:50 Break
    2:00 Medical Transitioning
    2:50 Break
    3:00 Comorbidities
    4:00 End

    Learning Objectives
    By the end of the workshop, participants will:

    • Understand sex, gender, gender identity, gender presentation, and sexuality as distinct continua
    • Develop awareness of their own beliefs, values, and practices around gender and sexuality
    • Understand the beliefs, values, and practices of the trans community
    • Understand the history of how transness was viewed outside the trans community, including by mental health professionals
    • Be familiar with necessary accommodations and effective interventions in working with trans clients
    • Be familiar with the gender transitioning process, and health care professionals’ roles in the process
    • Understand how trans identity and the transitioning process interacts with other behavioral health concerns
    Presenter bio:

    Jordan Shin, MS, LPC, has been a counselor in private practice in Eugene since 2008. Jordan works primarily with members of the LGBT+ community, and specializes in working with chronic behavioral health concerns, such as posttraumatic stress, bipolar mood, and autism spectrum. Jordan is a member of World Professional Association for Transgender Health, and has worked with over 200 trans clients.

    Jordan is currently Behavioral Health Manager at Alliance for Community Wellness, the behavioral health service at HIV Alliance, focused on serving the LGBT+ community, with offices in Eugene, Salem, and Roseburg.

    Jordan holds a PhD in Political Science from UC Berkeley, with a specialization in feminist gender theory, which informs much of Jordan’s work.

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