Internal Biases & the LGBTQIA+ Community in Substance Use & Mental Health Care

This in-person workshop will facilitate a discussion around the impacts of ways society, and mental health practitioners specifically view LGBTQIA+ identities on the body; in particular, how experiences of oppression and marginalization can lead to stored, unresolved trauma reactions in our nervous systems. Mental health disparities and increased rates of substance use in the LGBTQIA+ community will be discussed as it relates to this unresolved trauma, and implications of clinical work with LGBTQIA+ clients will be explored.