Description
There are many concerns that are unique to the trans community and to the trans experience. Today, these concerns are perhaps more important than ever. As such, this group exists as a space for transgender and nonbinary individuals to learn skills for community building, identity building, and coping with the increase in transphobic rhetoric that is ever-present in society.
This group will be a semi-structured process group, and will ideally provide the space for TGNB clients to learn skills to cope with and make sense of the rapid increase in anti-trans rhetoric in the news and society. I am aiming for this group to have a main topic to discuss each week, with room to adjust based on the needs of the group.While the group is a process group, I am planning to bring a therapeutic skill/tool to each meeting that can help participants work towards the goals of the group (e.g., community building, coping with transphobia, etc.). These skills/tools will be based on CBT/DBT/ACT techniques (specifics TBD based on the need of the group).
The group itself will be a 8-week course in which we will discuss topics ranging from (but not limited to): gender dysphoria/euphoria, community building/belongingness, and identity construction.
Group Therapist
June Rose Cohen was drawn to this work after a history of activism and advocacy for queer and trans liberation. June believes that there are undeniable systems of power and oppression that create and sell narratives impacting people on a daily basis, shaping their sense of self. As a transfemme therapist, she deeply understands the importance of living authentically and being your true self. Together, you and June can begin to determine how you can tell your story in a way that feels the most authentic to you, your experiences, and your identities.
June's practice is person-centered and relational at its core, and utilizing a decolonial framework, she works with clients to create new narratives that feel more authentic and true to who they want to be. June specializes in working with OCD and utilizes ERP and ACT to help clients overcome obsessive thinking and compulsive behavior. Additionally, she draws on ideas from narrative therapy, feminist/queer theory, and DBT in order to help you craft your best, most authentic life. Along with OCD, they have experience working with LGBTQIA2S+ individuals, trauma, neurodiversity, and chronic pain and illness.
June believes that therapy is most effective when it is collaborative and tailored to each person’s specific needs. She works with clients at their own pace and within their own boundaries in order to determine the client's needs and how therapy can be the most useful and effective.
