In a society that has gender expectations, we are invited to examine our gender within the context of others: within self, family, friends, professionally, and in the different communities within society we navigate. The purpose of this experiential workshop is to invite a gendered conversation personally and professionally. Before we only engage our professional minds, the first hour will be about engaging an open process about lived experience of gender from a young age within self, family, community, society through now. In the second hour the group will be invited to share about how gender comes up in clinical practice. The group will end with any follow up questions and a didactic discussion.
Li Brookens is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Certified Group Psychotherapist (CGP), WPATH GEI SOC7 Certified Member, and a Clinical Hypnotherapist providing psychotherapy for individuals, families, and groups. Li is out personally and professionally as a trans, nonbinary, white-passing Latinx, able-bodied person. Li works collaboratively with clients using a social justice lens that is informed by their foundational training in modern psychodynamic psychotherapy from Smith College School for Social Work. Additionally, Li has advanced training and skills in working with LGBTQ+ and racial and cultural identities individually and in groups. For interested clients, Li uses a relational and transparent approach in their work to center and empower people’s internal sense of being to live their most actualized life.