supervision masterclass

Clinical Supervision from a Gender Affirming Care Lens: Deepening Expertise in Inclusive and Effective Practices

– DIGITAL –

 – 7 CE’s Available –

This masterclass is designed for experienced clinical supervisors and those who have taken the foundations masterclass who are looking to refine their skills and address the complexities of providing supervision in the context of gender-affirming care. Participants will delve into advanced topics such as managing ethical dilemmas, addressing intersectional oppression, and fostering cultural humility within supervision.

You’ll learn strategies for navigating power dynamics, supporting supervisees at varying competency levels, and providing guidance on complex clinical cases. This training also emphasizes practical skills, including advanced documentation techniques, trauma-informed supervisory practices, and reflective case consultations.

Through interactive discussions, scenario-based learning, and tools for self-assessment, participants will leave equipped to empower their supervisees and lead them in delivering affirming, culturally responsive care. Whether you’re addressing systemic barriers, mentoring emerging leaders, or guiding crisis interventions, this workshop provides the expertise you need to make a lasting impact

Ideal for supervisors committed to fostering growth, advocacy, and leadership in gender-affirming clinical practice.

Who Should Take This Course?

This intermediate masterclass is ideal for experienced clinical supervisors who have foundational knowledge in clinical supervision and are ready to refine their skills, particularly in the context of supervising the provision of gender-affirming care. It’s also well-suited for supervisors-in-training who are pursuing advanced credentials and seeking to enhance their ability to support supervisees working with gender-diverse clients.

Mental health professionals in leadership roles, including therapists, counselors, and psychologists who oversee teams or supervisees, will benefit from this course’s focus on inclusive and effective supervision practices. Additionally, supervisors working with diverse populations will gain valuable tools to foster culturally responsive supervision that acknowledges intersectional identities and addresses systemic barriers.

Finally, this course is perfect for supervisors who are passionate about advocacy and systems change, equipping them to empower supervisees to champion gender-affirming practices within organizations and communities. If you’re eager to lead with confidence, enhance cultural humility, and support supervisees in delivering affirming care, this course is designed for you.

Why is This Important?

As the demand for gender-affirming care grows, clinical supervisors play a critical role in ensuring that mental health professionals are equipped to provide inclusive, effective, and culturally responsive support to gender-diverse clients. Supervisors must navigate the complexities of power dynamics, intersectional oppression, and ethical dilemmas while fostering cultural humility and advancing supervisees’ competencies.

This masterclass addresses these critical needs by offering advanced training that bridges the gap between foundational knowledge and the nuanced expertise required for supervising in gender-affirming contexts. By honing skills in trauma-informed supervisory practices, advanced documentation, and reflective case consultations, participants will be empowered to lead supervisees with confidence and clarity.

Moreover, the course focuses on cultivating leadership and advocacy skills, equipping supervisors to address systemic barriers and champion affirming practices within their organizations and communities. For those committed to mentoring emerging leaders and supporting supervisees in navigating complex clinical scenarios, this training is essential for creating impactful and lasting change in the field of mental health.

What we will Cover:

This course equips supervisors with the advanced skills needed to navigate the complexities of gender-affirming clinical supervision. It addresses ethical dilemmas, intersectional challenges, and culturally responsive practices while enhancing trauma-informed approaches and reflective case consultations.

Focusing on leadership development and advocacy, the course empowers participants to support supervisees effectively, foster inclusive care, and drive systemic change with confidence and cultural humility.

Here’s what participants can expect to cover:

  • Advanced Frameworks in Gender-Affirming Care
    Deepen understanding of the foundational principles of gender-affirming care by integrating advanced theories such as intersectionality, trauma-informed and healing-centered frameworks, and systemic approaches. Discuss the dynamic application of these principles within supervisory practices to address complex client and supervisee needs.
  • Supervisory Relationship Dynamics in Complex Cases
    Examine advanced strategies for navigating power imbalances, multiple relationships, and conflicts within the supervisory relationship. Focus on how to foster resilience and growth in supervisees handling challenging clinical situations.
  • Supervising Across Developmental Stages and Competency Levels
    Develop nuanced approaches to support supervisees at varying levels of experience and competency in gender-affirming care. Learn to balance mentorship with directive guidance tailored to supervisees’ unique developmental needs.
  • Advanced Ethical Dilemmas and Risk Management
    Explore intricate ethical challenges in gender-affirming supervision, such as managing conflicts between supervisees’ values and affirming care principles. (Or savior mentalities that interfere with client autonomy and self-determination). Provide guidance on mitigating risks related to client safety, systemic biases, and legal complexities.
  • Precision in Recordkeeping and Legal Documentation
    Address advanced documentation techniques, focusing on maintaining clarity, transparency, and compliance with legal standards in high-risk or contentious cases. Learn how to document complex supervisory decisions and client progress effectively.
  • Cultural Humility as an Advanced Supervisory Skill
    Engage in deeper discussions about fostering cultural humility, particularly in addressing supervisees’ biases and developing strategies to work with diverse populations. Explore self-assessment tools and practices for supervisors to model cultural competence.
  • Mitigating Intersectional Oppression and Systemic Barriers
    Equip supervisors with strategies to help supervisees address and advocate against systemic oppression, including trans-antagonism, racism, ableism, and other intersecting forms of marginalization. Explore tools for empowering supervisees and clients in oppressive environments.
  • Specialized Approaches to Gender Minority Stress and Trauma
    Train supervisors to coach their supervisees in recognizing and addressing gender minority stress and trauma. Discuss evidence-based practices for supporting supervisees in developing personalized intervention strategies for clients.
  • Case Consultation and Reflective Practice
    Develop advanced skills in case consultation, using structured models for reflective practice that enhance supervisees’ self-awareness, clinical insight, and skill-building. Incorporate critical incident reviews to refine interventions.
  • Scenario-Based Application for Complex Situations
    Participate in advanced scenario-based learning that includes ethically challenging cases. Engage in role-plays and critical discussions to refine decision-making and supervisory techniques.
  • Supervision for Advocacy and Leadership Development
    Explore ways to empower supervisees to become advocates for gender-affirming care within their institutions and communities. Discuss leadership skills that supervisors can foster in their supervisees to promote systemic change.
  • Innovative Practices in Gender-Affirming Tele-Supervision
    Delve into the unique opportunities and challenges of providing supervision through digital platforms, including maintaining engagement, addressing power dynamics remotely, and ensuring confidentiality.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify and integrate advanced supervision frameworks that address complex ethical dilemmas, systemic oppression, and trauma-informed principles while grounding practices in gender-affirming care.
  • Analyze and critique one’s own biases and supervisory narratives, focusing on recognizing internalized biases, power dynamics, and their influence on supervisory practices and relationships.
  • Demonstrate the use of advanced tools and methods for assessing supervisee competence, delivering nuanced feedback, and guiding supervisees through complex gender-affirming clinical challenges.
  • Recognize and analyze systemic barriers, intersectional oppression, and gender minority stress within the supervisory relationship, and develop strategies to empower supervisees in effectively navigating these challenges.
  • Design and implement strategies to repair and strengthen supervisory relationships when ruptures occur, particularly in high-stakes or ethically challenging scenarios.
  • Assess and address the developmental and cultural needs of supervisees by creating tailored, supportive, and growth-oriented supervisory environments that encourage professional autonomy and effectiveness.
  • Apply and demonstrate principles of cultural humility and diversity in supervision to enhance supervisee competence and promote inclusive, gender-affirming clinical practices.
  • Analyze and address complex ethical and legal considerations in gender-affirming supervision to ensure supervisee compliance with applicable laws and regulations, with specific attention to California-based standards.
  • Describe and implement advanced recordkeeping and documentation practices to ensure clarity, accuracy, and adherence to ethical and legal supervision requirements, including strategies for high-risk case documentation.
  • Design and evaluate organizational strategies for managing complaints and resolving supervisory conflicts, including fostering advocacy and promoting systemic change in resistant environments.
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Clinical Supervision from a Gender Affirming Care Lens: Foundations

DIGITAL

$349.00

7 CE Credits Available

The Gender Health Training Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Gender Health Training Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Who is leading this workshop?

Malakai Coté, PhD

Malakai Coté, PhD (he/him or they/them), is a licensed psychologist and executive director with expertise in holistic healing and interconnection. He holds a PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Oregon and has experience in university counseling centers and community mental health settings. Dr. Coté is the Executive Director of the Gender Health Center in Sacramento, CA, which focuses on ending the pathologization of trans people and improving healthcare access for Queer, Transgender, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (QTBIPOC). He also operates an independent practice in the Greater Sacramento area and provides clinical training and supervision at the Healing Space in Santa Barbara, CA. Additionally, Dr. Coté is a founding member and Vice President of the Greater Sacramento Association of Black Psychologists (GSABPsi).

His ethic of care is rooted in the principles and values of African-centered psychology and liberation psychology. He specializes in serving the diverse needs of Queer, Same-Gender-Loving, Trans, Black, Indigenous, Persons of Color across the lifespan. They have developed expertise in providing culturally specific and LGBTQ+ liberatory mental health services, clinical supervision, program development, and evaluation consultation services with community-based organizations. They also provide professional development and continuing education workshops addressing transgender healthcare, diversity, inclusion, and belonging across identity intersections, and African-centered healing approaches. Additionally, Dr. Coté is a trained yoga teacher, and they integrate gentle movement, meditation, and breathwork into their practice.

Dr. Coté was born and raised on lands stewarded by the Kickapoo and Kaw/Kansa peoples on Turtle Island. He proudly identifies as a descendent of the Mende peoples who resided in present-day Sierra Leone and his paternal and maternal ancestors survived enslavement. They are a spouse, guide parent, puppy parent, uncle, sibling, nephew, cousin, and adult child of two loving and hardworking parents with a solid extended kin core. They proudly and unapologetically identify under the LGBTQ+ umbrella. He is an active member of Beta Gamma Chi Fraternity, Incorporated.

Shawn V. Giammattei, PhD

Shawn V. Giammattei, PhD is a clinical family psychologist in private practice in Northern CA and the Associate Director of Mental Health for the Child and Adolescent Gender Center at UCSF, Benioff Children’s Hospital. He is the founder & CEO of the Gender Health Training Institute, which is dedicated to training providers in culturally attuned, trauma-informed, family-centered, gender affirmative care, the TransFamily Alliance, an educational, resource, and support community for parents with gender diverse offspring, and Quest Family Therapy, a group family therapy practice and training program in California focused on the intersections of queer & gender affirming care, family/community systems, Ecotherapy, and culturally attuned/trauma informed practices.

He specializes in family therapy with couples, families, and individuals across the lifespan, with a particular focus on transgender, non-binary, and gender-expansive youth and their families. He is a GEI SOC8 certified Mentor for the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and is on faculty for their Global Education Institute. He is also a trans-health researcher, author, international speaker, and professor teaching graduate and post-graduate courses in LGBTQ psychology and family systems. He is an advisory member of Mind the Gap, a group dedicated to gender affirming care for trans youth and their families, a past officer and board member of the American Family Therapy Academy and the Association of Family Therapists of Northern California, and the author of several articles and book chapters on gender, sexuality, and family work.

Dr. Giammattei’s mission in life is to be a bridge across difference to build community and heal separations: separations from self, from each other, from community, from the world, and beyond. He is passionate about leading people on deep personal journeys in Nature, and helping them integrate these experiences into their daily lives and relationships. He currently resides in Northern California on the ancestral and unceded lands of the Southern Pomo and Kashia people. He is a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community, identifies as a queer man who was assigned female at birth. He is happily married to his spouse of 32 years, is deeply connected to his family of origin, as well as his family of choice.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes it will.

Please check your state’s specific requirements and that they accept APA CEs.

For the California BBS, licensed supervisors of associate MFTs and PCCs are required to complete a minimum of six (6) hours of supervision training within 60 days of commencement of supervision, and six (6) hours of supervision training each license renewal period.

Licensed supervisors of associate social workers must complete an initial fifteen (15) hours of supervision training, and six (6) hours of supervision training each license renewal period.

Licensed psychologist supervisors of associate psychologists are required to obtain six (6) hours of supervision training within 60 days of supervising a supervisee as well as six (6) hours of supervision training each license renewal period.

This workshop will be taught and facilitated by Malakai Coté, PhD and Shawn V. Giammattei, PhD.

Malakai Coté, PhD (he/him or they/them), is a licensed psychologist and executive director with expertise in holistic healing and interconnection. He holds a PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Oregon and has experience in university counseling centers and community mental health settings. Dr. Coté is the Executive Director of the Gender Health Center in Sacramento, CA, which focuses on ending the pathologization of trans people and improving healthcare access for Queer, Transgender, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (QTBIPOC). He also operates an independent practice in the Greater Sacramento area and provides clinical training and supervision at the Healing Space in Santa Barbara, CA. Additionally, Dr. Coté is a founding member and Vice President of the Greater Sacramento Association of Black Psychologists (GSABPsi).

His ethic of care is rooted in the principles and values of African-centered psychology and liberation psychology. He specializes in serving the diverse needs of Queer, Same-Gender-Loving, Trans, Black, Indigenous, Persons of Color across the lifespan. They have developed expertise in providing culturally specific and LGBTQ+ liberatory mental health services, clinical supervision, program development, and evaluation consultation services with community-based organizations. They also provide professional development and continuing education workshops addressing transgender healthcare, diversity, inclusion, and belonging across identity intersections, and African-centered healing approaches. Additionally, Dr. Coté is a trained yoga teacher, and they integrate gentle movement, meditation, and breathwork into their practice.

Dr. Coté was born and raised on lands stewarded by the Kickapoo and Kaw/Kansa peoples on Turtle Island. He proudly identifies as a descendent of the Mende peoples who resided in present-day Sierra Leone and his paternal and maternal ancestors survived enslavement. They are a spouse, guide parent, puppy parent, uncle, sibling, nephew, cousin, and adult child of two loving and hardworking parents with a solid extended kin core. They proudly and unapologetically identify under the LGBTQ+ umbrella. He is an active member of Beta Gamma Chi Fraternity, Incorporated.

Shawn V. Giammattei, PhD is a clinical family psychologist in private practice in Northern CA and the Associate Director of Mental Health for the Child and Adolescent Gender Center at UCSF, Benioff Children’s Hospital. He is the founder & CEO of the Gender Health Training Institute, which is dedicated to training providers in culturally attuned, trauma-informed, family-centered, gender affirmative care, the TransFamily Alliance, an educational, resource, and support community for parents with gender diverse offspring, and Quest Family Therapy, a group family therapy practice and training program in California focused on the intersections of queer & gender affirming care, family/community systems, Ecotherapy, and culturally attuned/trauma informed practices.

He specializes in family therapy with couples, families, and individuals across the lifespan, with a particular focus on transgender, non-binary, and gender-expansive youth and their families. He is a GEI SOC8 certified Mentor for the World Professional Association for Transgender Health and is on faculty for their Global Education Institute. He is also a trans-health researcher, author, international speaker, and professor teaching graduate and post-graduate courses in LGBTQ psychology and family systems. He is an advisory member of Mind the Gap, a group dedicated to gender affirming care for trans youth and their families, a past officer and board member of the American Family Therapy Academy and the Association of Family Therapists of Northern California, and the author of several articles and book chapters on gender, sexuality, and family work.

Dr. Giammattei’s mission in life is to be a bridge across difference to build community and heal separations: separations from self, from each other, from community, from the world, and beyond. He is passionate about leading people on deep personal journeys in Nature, and helping them integrate these experiences into their daily lives and relationships. He currently resides in Northern California on the ancestral and unceded lands of the Southern Pomo and Kashia people. He is a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community, identifies as a queer man who was assigned female at birth. He is happily married to his spouse of 32 years, is deeply connected to his family of origin, as well as his family of choice.

**There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program

The “Clinical Supervision from a Gender Affirming Care Lens: Foundations” course is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of key topics and skills essential for effective supervision in gender affirming care settings. Here’s what participants can expect to cover:

  • Foundations of Gender Affirming Care: Introduction to the basic principles of gender affirming care, including terminology, concepts, and the importance of a gender affirming framework within supervision.
  • Supervisory Relationship Development: Strategies for building strong, effective supervisory relationships that support the growth and development of supervisees providing gender affirming care.
  • Developmental Considerations in Supervision: Discussion on balancing empowerment and directive guidance in the supervisory relationship, building a structure for supervision, and fostering autonomy while ensuring effective care.
  • Ethical and Legal Frameworks: Detailed exploration of the ethical considerations and legal requirements relevant to gender affirming care and clinical supervision.
  • Recordkeeping and Documentation: Best practices for ethical recordkeeping and documentation within the supervisory process, including considerations for malpractice insurance and legal responsibilities.
  • Cultural Competence and Humility: Techniques for integrating cultural humility into supervisory practices, with a focus on understanding and respecting the diverse identities and experiences of supervisees and clients.
  • Addressing Intersectional Oppression & Gender Minority Stress: Insights into the impact of intersectional oppression and gender minority stress on supervisees and strategies for creating a supportive, affirming environment that acknowledges and mitigates these stressors.
  • Practical Scenarios: Engaging in scenario-based learning to apply concepts and strategies in practical, real-world supervisory situations.

Please note that refunds are not available for digital courses.

This workshop is designed for mental health clinicians with two or more years of post-licensure experience, who work with gender diverse clients and supervisees, and are interested in developing or enhancing their clinical supervision skills from a culturally attuned, gender affirming care perspective.

Yes. 7 hours of CE’s (pre-training + workshop) and certificates of completion are provided through the Gender Health Training Institute.

The Gender Health Training Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Gender Health Training Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Satisfactory Completion
To receive a certificate, participants must pass the quiz. Passing norm is 75%.

CEs will be available in the main dashboard upon completing the required quiz at the end of the workshop. A passing score of 75% is required.

Your satisfaction is our goal. Please read our Grievance Policy.

Grievance Policy

Gender Health Training Institute complies with all legal and ethical responsibilities to be non-discriminatory in promotional activities, program content, and treatment of program participants. The Director of Continuing Education is responsible for monitoring and assessing compliance with these standards. When a grievance arises regarding continuing education programs or processes, the complainant is expected to notify the Director of Continuing Education by e-mail as soon as possible so that the nature of the concern may be addressed in a timely fashion. The Director of Continuing Education, Shawn Giammattei, can be contacted by email at [email protected]. The Director of Continuing Education will make every effort to speak with the complainant to gather all necessary information to determine an appropriate course of action.

A grievance concerning a specific course offering, content, or costs may be resolved by:

  • Modifications to course materials as needed.
  • Opportunity for enrollment in an alternative course, if feasible.
  • Credit towards future course enrollment.
  • Partial or full refund.

The complainant will be kept informed of the status of the grievance, and the Gender Health Training Institute will retain a written copy of the grievance in their records for five years.

We are happy to accommodate your ADA needs, please email: [email protected].

There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.

The workshop is 8 hours long, including breaks and time for Q&A.

7 CE Credits Available

The Gender Health Training Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Gender Health Training Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

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