The Modern Clinician's Guide to Working with LGBTQ+ Clients The Inclusive Psychotherapist

The Modern Clinician's Guide to Working with LGBTQ+ Clients is a ground-breaking resource for therapists working with LGBTQ+ clients whose identity expressions span all gender-, sex-, and relationship-diverse groups.

Combining the author?s extensive clinical experience with contemporary evidence-based research, the chapters of this book explore the origins and development of sexual minority groups, going beyond lesbian women and gay men to include transgender and gender nonbinary people, kink and polyamory, bisexuality and pansexuality, and those who identify as asexual or aromantic. The text also offers in-depth coverage of clinical work with transgender, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary clients of all ages. With a wealth of therapeutic strategies and case studies, this resource helps professionals respond to this ?Big Tent? community in an informed and empathetic way.

Spanning sexuality, gender, relationships and age groups, The Modern Clinician's Guide to Working with LGBTQ+ Clients is an invaluable reference for psychotherapists in a broad range of clinical settings.

1. From Bad to Mad to Civil Rights 2. The Roads Converge Again 3. The Big Tent and Intersectionality 4. Exactly What Are We Studying, Anyway, and What Does it Mean? 5. Who Is Gay? 6.The Twentieth Century Gay and Lesbian Client 7. Today’s Gay and Lesbian Client 8. Issues of Gay Men and Boys 9. Gay Male Couples 10. Counseling Lesbians 11. Lesbian Couples 12. Bi Any Other Name - Science Grapples with Multiple Gender Attractions 13. Clinical Issues of Bisexually Identified Clients 14. Aces and Aros 15. Pansexuals, Mono Vs. Multisexuals, Sexual Fluidity 16. From Two Genders to Many 17. Working with Adult Transgender Clients 18. Working with the Transgender Adolescent 19. The Gender Expansive Child 20. Non-binary Identities and Gender Fluidity 21. BDSM Comes Out of the Shadows 22. Working with Kinky Clients 23. Introduction to Consensual Nonmonogamy 24. Working with clients who are Non-monogamous – and those who want to be

Margaret Nichols, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, AASECT-certified sex therapist, and American Board of Sexology diplomate in sex therapy. She has been a leader in the field of mental health, particularly in New Jersey, for over 20 years. In addition to founding the Institute for Personal Growth/IPG Counseling, Nichols helped create the Women's Center of Monmouth County, NJ, one of the first battered women's shelters in New Jersey, and founded the Hyacinth Foundation, New Jersey's primary HIV social service agency. She is an internationally published author and speaker.