LGBTQ Clients in Therapy, Joe Kort
LGBTQ Clients in Therapy, Joe Kort
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LGBTQ Clients in Therapy
Clinical Issues and Treatment Strategies

Author: Joe Kort

Narrator: Daniel Henning

Unabridged: 20 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/14/2021


Synopsis

All the answers clinicians need to work effectively with LGBTQ clients.

A therapist who treats LGBTQ clients often must be more than "gay friendly." Clinical experience, scientific research, and cultural understanding are advancing rapidly, and the task of being LGBTQ informed is ever-changing.

This book covers topics such as how to avoid making the common mistake of believing that "a couple is a couple," thus treating LGBTQ couples the same as their heterosexual counterparts; how to treat clients struggling in "mixed" orientation marriages and relationships (straight and LGBTQ spouses in the same couple); and how to work with clients who have non-heteronormative sexual behaviors and practices. The book discusses covert cultural sexual abuse (the trauma suffered from having to suppress one's own sexual and gender identity) as well as the difficult process of coming out to family and friends.

A therapist's job is to help clients and their identities through their own lens and not anyone else's—especially the therapist's. The LGBTQ-affirmative principles put forward in this book will help you build a stronger relationship with your LGBTQ clients and become the go-to therapist in your area.

About Joe Kort

Joe Kort, PhD, LMSW, is a psychotherapist, international speaker, coach and clinical sexologist. Dr. Kort specializes in clinical sexology providing sex therapy, IMAGO Relationship Therapy for gay, lesbian, and heterosexual couples, Gay Affirmative Therapy, Out-of-Control Sexual Behaviors (OCSB), male sexual fluidity, mixed orientation relationships and marriages, childhood sexual abuse, and depression and anxiety disorders.

Dr. Kort is the author of: 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do To Improve Their Lives, 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do To Find Real Love, Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician: The Essential Guide, and Is My Husband Gay, Straight or Bi?: A Guide for Women Concerned About Their Men.


Reviews

Goodreads review by rayna on December 05, 2024

used this for my honors thesis project 💪🤓‼️......more

Goodreads review by Nata on May 17, 2021

This book was easy to read and is helpful for non-therapists as well. The author explains in detail how damaging it can be to stay in the closet for a long time and what effects it might have. He also explains the differences between sexual fantasies, compulsions and trauma reenactments which I found......more

Goodreads review by Gwenn on May 10, 2023

I liked this book and I feel like it does a pretty good job of addressing issues in an accessible way. (In other words, it doesn't read like a text book). Because LGBTQ+ language and terminology is rapidly evolving, this is in no way a comprehensive guide, but it is helpful for clinicians to get som......more