• Understanding Parental Struggles – Explore common fears, concerns, and emotional responses parents experience and learn how to meet them with empathy and evidence-based guidance.
• Family Dynamics & Gender Affirmation – Examine how gender diversity impacts family systems and identify ways to foster family cohesion and acceptance.
  Addressing Resistance & Ambivalence – Learn effective approaches to engage parents who may be struggling with acceptance, helping them shift from fear to understanding and support.
• Navigating Misinformation & Societal Pressures – Equip families with tools to counter misinformation and cope with external challenges such as unsupportive relatives, schools, and communities.
• Clinical Strategies for Family Support – Gain practical techniques for facilitating parent education, processing grief, and fostering resilience, including coaching frameworks and therapeutic interventions.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Describe the stages of the parental gender journey based on the TransFamily Alliance model and explain the emotional, cognitive, and behavioral challenges parents may experience.
• Identify at least three common fears, misconceptions, and societal pressures that impact parents’ ability to support their gender-diverse children.
• Assess the role of family dynamics in shaping parental responses to a child’s gender identity, including sibling and extended family influences.
• Apply evidence-based communication and psychoeducation strategies to help parents navigate resistance, misinformation, and grief in a clinical or medical setting.
• Demonstrate effective techniques for guiding parents toward affirming home environments and advocacy, including tools for addressing external challenges such as schools and medical decisions.
• Utilize at least three clinical or coaching interventions to support parents in strengthening their relationships with their gender-diverse child and fostering resilience within the family system.