Lesbian and Gay Psychotherapy Association

08/11/2022

A couple photos from our LAGPA pool party featuring boardmembers Jeremiah Hein and co-creator Terry Olesan. Please post pics you took from the event

10/02/2021

11/05/2020

Here's an opportunity TONIGHT November 4 to be in conversation with community and allies.

With no clear winner emerging from Tuesday’s General Election, Los Angeles LGBT Center CEO Lorri L. Jean issued the following statement: “We do not yet know the final result of the Presidential ele…

10/29/2020

REMINDER THAT THIS FREE PRESENTATION IS TOMORROW:
YOUR CHANCE TO LEARN A NEW TECHNIQUE


VIVA EXCELLENCE in collaboration with LAGPA offers an exciting free workshop. This Friday, October 30
How to Be an Affirmative Ally & Clinician During the Holiday Season

The workshop includes an introduction to the Havening Technique, a powerful neuroscience-based intervention to soothe trauma responses

Location: Live Virtual Workshop via Zoom
Time: Login begins at 8:45 am, workshop starts promptly at 9:00 am and finishes at 11am Pacific Time Zone
Cost: Free! Our holiday gift to you!
Summary: The holidays can be particularly challenging for LGBTQIA + individuals. Over 60% of q***r people have reported hearing their family make degrading comments about the community, and many have been abandoned due to their q***r identity. As practitioners, it is our duty to treat people from all backgrounds with dignity and respect by providing culturally competent care, especially during challenging times. During this workshop, Dr. Mansfield will share a number of special cultural considerations as well as how to successfully integrate a powerful neuroscience-based intervention to heal and empower our LGBTQIA + clients.

Register today! This workshop is designed to enhance connection within yourself and with those you support as a healing practitioner. What is the most important skill to have as an LGBTQ + Ally? During this interactive workshop Dr. Megan Mansfield and Damien Gonsalves, LMFT will answer this question and teach you how to reach your maximum potential as an ally using the latest advances in neuroscience.

Registration will take you straight the Zoom registration page. We look forward to seeing you there!

Follow this link to register: https://www.vivaexcellence.com/how-to-be-an-lgbtqia--affirmative-ally---clinician.html

The holidays can be particularly challenging for LGBTQIA+ individuals. Over 60% of q***r people have reported hearing their family make degrading comments about the community, and many have been abandoned due to their q***r identity. As practitioners, it is our duty to treat people from all backgrou...

10/24/2020

Exciting free workshop coming up on Friday, October 30: HOW TO
BE AN LGBTQIA AFFIRMATIVE ALLY IN THE HOLIDAY SEASON.

Here is the link to register: https://www.vivaexcellence.com/how-to-be-an-lgbtqia--affirmative-ally---clinician.html

Date: October 30th, 2020
Location: Live Virtual Workshop via Zoom

Time: Login begins at 8:45am, workshop starts promptly at 9:00am and finishes at 11am Pacific Time Zone

Cost: Free! Our holiday gift to you!

Summary:​​The holidays can be particularly challenging for LGBTQIA+ individuals. Over 60% of q***r people have reported hearing their family make degrading comments about the community, and many have been abandoned due to their q***r identity. As practitioners, it is our duty to treat people from all backgrounds with dignity and respect by providing culturally competent care, especially during challenging times. During this workshop, Dr. Mansfield will share a number of special cultural considerations as well as how to successfully integrate a powerful neuroscience-based intervention to heal and empower our LGBTQIA+ clients.

Register today! This workshop is designed to enhance connection within yourself and with those you support as a healing practitioner. What is the most important skill to have as an LGBTQ+ Ally? During this interactive workshop Dr. Megan Mansfield and Damien Gonsalves, LMFT will answer this question and teach you how to reach your maximum potential as an ally using the latest advances in neuroscience.

Registration will take you straight the Zoom registration page. We look forward to seeing you there

The holidays can be particularly challenging for LGBTQIA+ individuals. Over 60% of q***r people have reported hearing their family make degrading comments about the community, and many have been abandoned due to their q***r identity. As practitioners, it is our duty to treat people from all backgrou...

10/13/2020

New Speaker Series co-sponsored by COLORS, the LGBTQ Counseling Center at Antioch University, Los Angeles.

TransACTION! Is a call to action that centers the voices of members of our local trans and non-binary community. In this time of turmoil that is affecting us all what does trans resilience look like?

On WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 14 @ 6PM an online event via Zoom

WHAT DOES TRANS RESILIENCE LOOK LIKE? A PANEL DISCUSSION

This event is for the whole community.

REGISTER HERE TO RECEIVE THE ZOOM LINK: https://www.antioch.edu/auonline/event/transaction%EF%BB%BF/

It’s election time and our current administration is doubling-down on its attacks on the Trans+ community. During this time of Black Lives Matter, police overreach and violence against trans folx of color in particular, this is a panel that focuses on trans-resilience vs trans-pain and the intersectionality of trans identity and ethnicity.

The event is FREE but does require registration HERE.
https://www.antioch.edu/auonline/event/transaction%EF%BB%BF/

WE PROVIDE LGBTQ-AFFIRMATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC SERVICES TO YOUTH, THEIR FAMILIES, AND THEIR PARTNERS.

TransACTION: What does Trans Resilience Look Like? A panel discussion. TransACTION! Is a call to action that centers the voices of members of our local trans and non-binary community. In this time of turmoil that is affecting us all what does trans resilience look like. This event is for the whole c...

10/01/2020

The LA-CAMFT October ONLINE Presentation is relevant to you!

The online presentation is titled:

Sexual Health Considerations with LGBTQIA+ Clients:
Implications for Client Safety, Sexual Satisfaction,
and Overall Well-Being
Dr. Harpreet Malla
Friday, October 16, 2020
9:00 -11:00 am
Harpreet Malla is a registered psychologist who is currently collecting her post-doctoral hours for licensure at Shanti Orange County in Laguna Hills, CA. She identifies as a 1.5 generation Indian-American feminist and enjoys navigating the cultural nuances those experiences have brought her. Dr. Malla has a passion for working with identity development as it pertains to LGBTQ, bicultural, and adolescent/young adult populations and recently has seen a rise in couples navigating arranged or other nontraditional marital practices in her work. She is also the Diversity Chair for LACPA.
Online Via Zoom

06/24/2020

URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT: VIRTUAL PRIDE FREE EVENT FOR NOON ON THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2020

[Shared from Don Kilhefner's Gay Tribal Elder's Newletter. Subscribe to this vibrant newsletter by emailing Don @ donkilhefner@sbcglobal.net]

Marathon begins at noon PT on Zoom and Twitch

Over 30 LGBTQI writers, playwrights, activists, and artists will read passages on camera from their favorite influential works of q***r literature and poetry for the first marathon Virtual Global Q***r READ-IN™.

Join 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown, Maryland Poet Laureate Grace Cavalieri, actor Alfre Woodard, playwright Charles Busch, writer/poet Alexis De Veaux, Grammy nominated singer/songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins and more of this famous roster Thursday, June 25th starting at noon (Pacific Time) on Zoom and Twitch.

This Way Out: International LGBTQI radio (OP/TWO) will host the FREE to the public virtual event honoring and celebrating the power of the written word. This Way Out’s CEO and producer Brian DeShazor explains that there is a special connection between words, their creators, the readers, and PRIDE.

“I wanted to bring q***r literature and poetry to the present and hear it read by a wide range of LGBTQI people. The Thursday before the weekend marking the 50th anniversary of PRIDE I want to sit down, pull a book off the shelf and read words of wisdom, love, joy, pain, and rage- but as a global family.”

DeShazor says that the artists and their readings show people how messages resonate beyond the arts.

“What the participants have selected to read stresses how literature impacts LGBTQI lives and how a single book or poem changed our lives or informed our journey to our authentic selves. In response to the worldwide protests, I have enlisted extraordinary people to read the words of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde”Additionally, the virtual event serves as an optional fundraiser for OP/TWO (Overnight Productions, Inc., a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation).

The event’s online broadcast is set to be a 12-hour marathon with more than 30 readers. Each one will read 10-15 minutes interspersed with music and This Way Out’s LGBTQI Newswrap headlines. The Newswrap segment is a weekly summary of news from around the world affecting LGBTQI lives. It’s what Maryland Poet Laureate Grace Cavalieri may consider a modern complement to the artistry of the event.

“Society depends on literature, art, and human expression— lights that show where we’ve been and where we need to go; art is the reality of spirit made manifest in action. Without this, we’d never know the truth of who we are, our past creations, or the history of the moment. There would be life, yes, but without civilization– the mud, without the lotus.”

The broadcast will close with a presentation of the L.A. Theatre Works production of “8” by Dustin Lance Black. LATW will present the full-length radio drama about the historic fight for marriage equality uninterrupted and with an all-star cast. Everyone is ready to join the virtual PRIDE event.

“L.A. Theatre Works is honored to have our production of 8 by Dustin Lance Black highlighted in the Global Q***r Read-In”-LATW

This Way Out is the only internationally distributed weekly LGBTQ radio program. It was founded in 1988 when most of the mainstream media believed that all of LGBTQ life, news, and culture could be summed up in one word: AIDS. Even some progressive journalists and community radio stations worried that coverage of our issues should be “balanced” with homophobic voices.

Contact: Brian DeShazor, CEO and Producer

Email: Brian@ThisWayOut.org
Phone: 818-326-7555
Online at: http://thiswayout.org/
TWITCH https://www.twitch.tv/thiswayout Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/ThisWayOutRadio
Twitter:
Facebook
Instagram

For the full list of readers see Don Hilkefner's Gay Tribal Elder Newsletter.

06/19/2020

NOTHING can keep us from gathering together. Join us for a special virtual celebration of the Trans/GNC/ENBY community. Featuring Big Q***r Convo with Isis King, workshops, the VarieTy Show, giveaways, and much more! Visit lalgbtcenter.org/transpride to register now!

06/16/2020

Sunday June 14 and Monday, June 15 were two historic days for the LGBTQ community. In a landmark 6-3 ruling on Monday, the US Supreme court affirmed that LGBT+ people are entitled to protection from discrimination based on their sexual orientation and gender identity under existing sex-based discrimination laws. Pinknews.co.uk paid tribute to the three heroic plaintiffs in the case, who all faced discrimination for being LGBT+.

And also, as reported in pinknews.co.uk, in various cities across America, in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Antonio and Boston, tens of thousands of people dressed all in white went to public demonstrations in solidarity with Black trans people over the weekend.

The protests were organised in response to the brutal murders of two Black trans women, Dominique “Rem’Mie” Fells, 27, and Riah Milton, 25, who were both killed last week.

Protestors in multiple US cities carried placards saying “All Black Lives Matter” and “Black Trans Lives Matter” in a massive show of solidarity with the Black trans community.

Though the repeated murders of transpeople and black trans women in particular are truly horrific, there is a ray of light in the way the Black Lives Matter movement and white anti-fascist allies are honoring their trans sisters and brothers.

06/14/2020

Posting as Mary Guillermin: I have just attended a Zoom call hosted by Daily Kos where I listened to three black leaders with nearly 500 people on the call. As a veteran of the changes my generation tried to make in the '60s and '70s, I am thrilled to be an ally of so many well-thought-out, inclusive, principled, well-organized (mostly Black-led) groups. Among them SURJ Stand Up for Racial Justice, White people 4 Black lives out of LA, then today hearing about Rising Majority, a Black-led organization about building a multiracial response to the ongooing, oppressive situation and act.sixnineteen.org. What I liked best: listening respectfully to Black leadership, hearing why they frame their demands the way they do, hearing the call repeated for white people to look into the comfort of assumed white privilege. I am so inspired after hearing so many powerful things. And I love that I keep hearing the phrase, "Calling in". As a founder member of an early Gay Liberation Front group (1971), I was devestated when the early unity of L,G,B and T people fell apart under splintering pressures. This is the time for whites to listen to Black leadership, be called in and listen with all our might to the daily and generational experiences of those who know of what they speak.

06/14/2020

Below is an excerpt from an article by the Rev. Irene Monroe, a Black LGBTQ woman, one of many stirring articles or statements I have read in recent days declaring LGBTQ + solidarity with Black, Indigenous and People of Color and Black Lives Matter.

"Pride has played an integral part in highlighting our political movement of self-acceptance and it binds us all to a common struggle for LGBTQ equality. Moving forward in the aftermath of Floyd’s death, I hope the entire LGBTQ+ community better embraces intersectional concerns and goals to best address systemic racism and police violence, which both my communities — African American and LGBTQ+ communities — share."

This interesting article can be found here: https://www.laprogressive.com/celebrating-pride/

Rev. Irene Monroe: as Pride becomes more corporate, marginal groups within the LGBT+ movement have become more invisible.

06/12/2020

REMINDER for Zoom OPEN SUPPORT SPACE today:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89416978921?pwd=ekpkSCtLUFRRT3NJY1VPUlFPUzB2UT09

TODAY, Friday, June 12 at 10am - 11am, Mary Guillermin, co-president of LAGPA (Le***an & Gay Psychotherapy Association) hosts the third meeting in an ongoing Zoom support group. This is an open support group for any members of the Rainbow Q***r/Gay Community to come together and connect during this time of societal and personal upheaval.

** MOVING TO 6PM ON THURSDAYS FROM JUNE 18 **

06/05/2020

On May 21, I (Mary Guillermin) watched the documentary about the Conversion Therapy group, "Love in Action" that was posted as event on this page. After the excellent, if chilling, documentary, "This is What Love in Action Looks Like", there was a panel discussion with four Conversion Therapy Survivors and the lawyer who shepherded the law against Conversion Therapy for Minors through the Virginia Legislature. The discussion point that most interested me was the lawyer Lisa Linsky's assertion that it was survivors' stories given as testimony before the Virginia Congress that were the weapon that created change. Here is the link to the post-film panel discussion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9H6UCSN3E0

Quotation below from the Washington Post on Mar 3, 2020 by Laura Vozzella.

RICHMOND — Gov. Ralph Northam on Monday signed a bill banning conversion therapy for minors, the first LGBT rights measure to reach the Democrat's desk this year.

Virginia will become the 20th state — and the first in the South — to outlaw the therapy, a widely discredited practice that purports to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Critics say it is traumatic for patients and has led to suicides.

The ban, which takes effect July 1, will not apply to adults who choose the therapy for themselves.

“This issue is personal for me, as a pediatric neurologist who has cared for thousands of children,” Northam said in a statement. “Conversion therapy is not only based in discriminatory junk-science, it is dangerous and causes lasting harm to our youth. No one should be made to feel wrong for who they are — especially not a child. I’m proud to sign this ban into law.”

This recording was produced on May 21, 2020 by Born Perfect, hosted by Born Perfect Virginia Ambassador Adam Trimmer. This event was a screening and panel di...

06/04/2020

REMINDER for Zoom OPEN SUPPORT SPACE every Friday:

Tomorrow, Friday, June 5 at 10am - 11am, Mary Guillermin, co-president of LAGPA (Le***an & Gay Psychotherapy Association) hosts the second meeting in an ongoing Zoom support group. This is an open support group for any members of the Rainbow Q***r/Gay Community to come together and connect during this time of societal and personal upheaval.

Bring your concerns, challenges and hopes in order to connect with others in our community. All members of our diverse community are welcome, whether or not you are a provider of mental health services. Whoever finds us can meet with us. Respectful behavior to all present is essential.

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89416978921

Password: 477547

Your host, Mary Guillermin, is pictured below.

05/28/2020

REMINDER: Tomorrow, Friday 29 at 10am - 11 am, I am hosting a Zoom support group on behalf of LAGPA. This is an open support group for any members of the Rainbow Q***r/Gay Community to come together and connect during this time of societal and personal upheaval.

Bring your concerns, challenges and hopes in order to connect with others in our community. All members of our diverse community are welcome, whether or not you are a provider of mental health services. Whoever finds us can meet with us. Respectful behavior to all present is essential.

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89416978921

Password: 477547

05/21/2020

Tomorrow, Thursday, May 21 at 2.30pm - 5pm PST: Free screening and panel discussion of the effects of Conversion Therapy via Zoom.
Registration available if you click the link.
http://bornperfect.org/bpevents/

Join survivors for a viewing of the award-winning Morgan Jon Fox conversion therapy documentary, "This Is What Love In Action Looks Like." A Born Perfect Virginia event.

05/06/2020

Today I found out about this CA non-profit which advocates state-wide for our community. There is a virtual town hall meeting in the Los Angeles area on May 28 at 6pm with a simple registration on the website. Please let LAGPA members and the clients we serve know about the resources listed on the website @ www.californialgbtqhealth.org

Statewide coalition of nonprofit providers, community centers and researchers collectively advocatin