Training for Therapists Working with Trans Clients
Advanced clinical frameworks — not inclusion principles. For practitioners who want to understand what is actually happening for trans clients, and know what to do about it.
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"I've done numerous professional development trainings in this area over many years. This is the one I have been long waiting for." - Tirese Ballard | Counsellor
If you've found existing training insufficient, you're not wrong.
Most professional development in this area focuses on definitions, terminology, and mental health statistics. It tells practitioners what trans people experience, but offers little in the way of clinical reasoning about why — or what to do with that understanding in the room.
Many practitioners who work regularly with trans clients describe reaching a ceiling with available training. The content becomes repetitive. The frameworks don't extend to the complexity of actual clinical encounters.
The training here was developed in direct response to that gap.
A different kind of training
The frameworks taught here are built on a foundational premise: that trans experiences — including dysphoria, distress, and disconnection — are intelligible responses to social, relational, and cultural contexts. Not deficits. Not pathology. Logical outcomes of specific conditions, which means they can be understood, addressed, and relieved.
This training is intentionally:
- explanatory rather than descriptive - offering models for why, not just what
- clinically reasoned rather than script or checklist-based
- depathologising without being uncritical or ideologically driven
- modality-agnostic — designed to integrate with your existing practice
Practitioners who complete this training consistently describe gaining clarity, even after years of working with trans clients.
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"Every part of this course is essential learning for all practitioners. It is a perfect combination of theory and how to work with the information in clinic. I can't recommend it highly enough."
- Lisa Mendicino | Holistic Health Practitioner
Who our training is for
These programs are designed for mental health practitioners who work clinically with trans and gender diverse clients, or who are preparing to do so — including psychologists, counsellors, psychotherapists, social workers, psychiatrists, mental health nurses, and allied health practitioners.
It is particularly well-suited to:
- early career to experienced practitioners seeking depth beyond introductory or Trans 101 material
- supervisors supporting other clinicians working with trans clients
- trans and gender diverse practitioners who bring lived expertise and want conceptually rich, clinically usable frameworks
Trainings
All programs are delivered online and self-paced, unless otherwise noted.
Trans Healing: Advanced Clinical Frameworks in Trans-Affirming Therapy
The flagship training. Five modules covering gender identity formation, dysphoria, emotional safety, transphobia, affirmation decision-making, and internalised transphobia. Built for practitioners who want a comprehensive, theoretically grounded foundation for this work.
$497.00 AUD
Working with Dysphoria
A focused 90-minute webinar on the underlying causes of gender dysphoria and a practical framework for relief, grounded in minority stress theory and a fully trans-affirming approach to care. Offers the conceptual foundations every practitioner working with trans clients needs, and a new way of understanding dysphoria that will change how you think about this work.
$49.00 AUD
Ethical WPATH Letter Writing
Get practical guidance that is ethically aligned for trans-affirming practitioners providing WPATH assessments and letter writing. Meet your obligations while accounting for the historical, political, and ethical considerations of doing this work. By accounting for the complexities of this work, you can provide respectful, client-centred assessments with greater ease personal-professional ethical harmony.
$247.00 AUD
Working with Parents
Working with parents is one of the most effective and underleveraged ways to support trans young people. This training offers practical frameworks for moving parents from uncertainty and fear toward genuine acceptance and active support, using evidence-based approaches grounded in empathy and clear clinical reasoning. Particularly relevant for practitioners working with young people or adolescents.
$197.00 AUD
About the facilitator
These programs are developed and facilitated by Ari Heart (they/them), a psychotherapist with over a decade of clinical experience working primarily with trans and gender diverse clients and their families.
Ari is the Senior Advisor for Gender Affirmation at the University of Melbourne, and brings to this training both the depth of thousands of hours of direct clinical work and the perspective of a trans non-binary person navigating this terrain personally and professionally.
The frameworks taught here were not sourced from guidelines or standards of care alone — they were developed iteratively through clinical practice, refined across hundreds of client encounters, and built to be genuinely useful in the room.
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