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What Really Matters When Your Child is Trans

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Are you...
  • Grappling with your child (kid, teen or adult) being potentially transgender?
  • Afraid of how the world will treat them? 
  • Worried they might make big choices before they're sure or ready?
  • Want to support them fully and also feeling a sense of grief or loss?
  • Overwhelmed by how to find them good support, or how you are going to talk to other people about this?
  • Find yourself thinking, "but there were no signs." and worried about what that means.
  • Doing your best, feeling isolated and confused at times. 
You are not alone. 

You want your child to be safe and happy in the world. To be comfortable in their own skin. To come to you and connect with you so that you can guide and support them.

The thing is... The truth is very hopeful. You can absolutely support your transgender or non-binary child to thrive.

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Research shows that parental support and connection is by far the biggest predictor of wellbeing and happiness for trans and gender diverse people. 

Not only that... 

Even with all the additional challenges that trans people face, with strong parental support, trans and gender diverse people have been shown to have similar mental health outcomes as the general population.

Your strong support is incredibly powerful. For them, you are it.

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What's Included

 

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In-depth video training

Our popular 'parent your trans child to thrive' course.

  • Start immediately upon enrolment
  • Self-paced 
  • Organised into easy bite-sized videos
  • On mobile app or web.

Regular Support Groups

  • Twice a month
  • Online
  • Personal support and guidance from Ari Heart
  • A compassionate and  knowledgeable brains trust of other parents  
  • Your personal cheerleading team

24/7 Professional and Peer Support

  • Ari and Jes in the forum daily responding to your questions 
  • A private trusted community of other parents who are equally dedicated to supporting their gender diverse child

Guest Expert Speakers

  • Monthly live and recorded events.

    Upcoming Workshops:

    • Autistic Burnout and Communication - Lumen Gorrie (May)
    • Parental Advocacy - TBC (June)
    • Chest Binding - Osteopath, Julian Grace (July)
    • Medical Q&A - TBC (August)
  • A library of past event recordings
    • Advocating for Your Trans Child at School - El and Mel from Let's Talk About X
    • Medical Q&A w/ Dr. Adam Brownhill from TG Clinic
    • Eating Disorders for Trans People - Kai Schweizer
    • Trans Joy - Nevo Sizin
  • Topics decided based on community needs

Library of resources

  • Recommendations for clinics and services
  • Library of positive trans representation in media
  • Affirming retail providers (clothes, binders, etc)
  • Medical guidelines
  • Useful research and articles
  • Resources for educating others

Course Outline

 

Module 1: What Really Matters When Your Child is Trans

  • Common Parental Emotions and Thoughts: What parents say about their experience of parenting a trans child (you are not alone)
  • Why it's so Hard: and cultivating self-compassion
  • Risk and Resilience Factors: The pivotal #1 factor affecting trans mental health
  • The Parental Support Paradox: How trying to protect your child might paradoxically be the hardest thing they face
  • The Positive Support Cycle: Getting There Faster
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Module 2: Small Changes, Big Effects

  • How do they know they are trans?
  • The formation of gender identity
  • When and why language matters
  • Receiving and responding to new information from your child
  • Four sentences that create trust and connection, even if you’re not ready to ‘get on board’.
  • The Task of Telling People: The Who, When, What, and How of disclosure.
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father sitting with young daughter on park bench with his arm around her while she smiles

Module 3: Strengthening Emotional Connection

  • Parenting when we’re afraid
  • The essentials guide to emotion theory 
  • Emotion Coaching for daily and deepening connection
  • How to repair after conflict and hurt
  • When your child doesn’t talk to you, and what you can do about it

Module 4: De-Pathologising Gender Diversity

  • How binary thinking has eclipsed the natural diversity within all living things.
  • The social significance of bodies
  • Embracing a broader perspective on gender roles through time and across cultures
  • Unwiring ourselves from the myths of femininity and masculinity.
  • Helpful and practical ways to talk about bodies with your child
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Module 5: De-Personalising Dysphoria

  • Differentiating diagnosis from feeling
  • How dysphoria disguises itself
  • Coping with dysphoria
  • Does dysphoria make you trans?
  • Understand the cause of dysphoria: a minority stress lens
  • Finding Meaningful Relief: Mitigating dysphoria.
  • The many ways to manage dysphoria, when relief is not yet possible.

Module 6: Affirming Change

  • Traditions of Transition: The legacy of concealment
  • The real purpose of transition
  • Common parent and child feelings during transition
  • Urgency, certainty and doubt
  • Navigating 'testimonial injustice' in the medical system
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family walking holding hands, one teenager wearing a large LGBTIQ flag as a cape

Module 7: Navigating & Building Community

  • Responding to your child's experiences of transphobia
  • Three essential types of community, and how to build them.
  • Troubleshooting when community is hard to access
  • The courageous conversations template
  • Use healthy anger to guide you

Pricing

All prices are in Australian dollars

Community Program

$99/m

6 Monthly Payments - Total AUD $594

  • 45-minute Individual Intake Call
  • 6-Months Community Access
    • Video Course
    • Support Groups
    • Guest Speaker Events
    • Resources
    • Community Forum
  • Option to continue at $99/m 

 

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Individual Coaching

$500/m

3 Monthly Payments - Total AUD $1500

  • 90-minute Individual Intake Call
  • 3-Months Community Access
    • Video Course
    • Support Groups
    • Guest Speaker Events
    • Resources
    • Community Forum
  • Option to continue at $99/m
  • 6 individual consultation calls (one per course module) within 3 months.
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Who We Are

We are Ari Heart (they/them) and Jes Anderberg (she/her).

We are both therapists and educators, working in the fields of trans mental health, advocacy and education. Together we have thousands of hours of clinical experience working with gender diverse people and their families.

Throughout our work, we have continuously seen the urgent need for parents to receive high-quality and compassionate information and support when their child is gender diverse.

We have collated years of professional, community, and personal expertise and research into this 7 week program, so that parents can escalate their learning and improve their life and relationship with their child. 

"I could not imagine better facilitators for this program than Ari and Jes, whose immense kindness, generosity, wisdom and relevant personal and clinical experience enliven and enrich the course content and discussions."

- Sally & Justin, parents of 5 year old.

“Ari is a caring and thoughtful practitioner who I have known for many years, they’re someone I trust and highly respect. I’m so happy that they are supporting parents to help our young people thrive.”

- Starlady, Zoe Belle Gender Collective

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