
Learn to create welcoming, inclusive environments for LGBTQ+ coworkers, clients, and relatives by recognizing challenges, using pronouns and gender-neutral language, and applying trauma-informed care principles.
Define essential LGBTQ+ terms from sex and gender to orientation and identity, including transgender, queer, nonbinary, pansexual, and more, creating a practical glossary for understanding diverse experiences.
Learn why pronoun usage matters and how to ask respectfully. Make pronouns part of introductions and adopt they/them forms to reduce microaggressions.
Debunk common myths about LGBTQ+ people, clarifying that sexuality and gender identity are not trends or choices and that coming out occurs at many ages. Promote equal rights and diversity.
Advances have fostered more inclusive workplaces for LGBTQ+ people, yet trainings often stay on paper. Learn to design practical, inclusive policies through consulting with LGBTQ+ organizations and developing interpersonal skills.
Explore how trauma shapes LGBTQ+ individuals from childhood to long-term health and mental health outcomes. Identify trauma-informed care to prevent retraumatization, counter tokenism, and improve support in workplaces and services.
Apply trauma informed care and consent by embracing five principles—safety, choice, collaboration, trustworthiness, and empowerment—to reduce retraumatization for LGBTQ+ clients, coworkers, friends, and relatives.
Develop welcoming environments for LGBTQ+ people by using intake forms to learn pronouns and preferred names, and practice trauma-informed care by asking for consent and collaborating with others.
The course was developed by EpiConsult LLC - written by Lou Barrett (they/them) queer author and publisher, with psychiatrist Dr. Robin Miller (he/him) and psychologist Dr. Anna Gyarmathy (she/her); reviewed by M. Moon (they/them) queer designer and editor, Coe Clausen (they/them) queer writer, and Hannah Daugherty (she/her) coach and writer.
This course also provides AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM CME point through CMEfy in collaboration with Physicians Anonymous. Please contact us to get your 1 CME point.
This course was created for those who have LGBTQ+ co-workers, clients, friends or family members, or who simply want to know more about LGBTQ+ people. Those who are not LGBTQ+, may feel unfamiliar with some of the language used, and may also have misconceptions about LGBTQ+ people. On the other hand, those who are LGBTQ+, may want to use this course as a reference in their professional lives.
The goal of this course is to give course participants a good starting place for creating more welcoming and inclusive environments for their co-workers, clients, friends, and family. While this course was specifically developed focusing on issues related to LGBTQ+, the overarching theme is that we are all different, and we have to respect each other’s differences and boundaries, in order to create a warm and welcoming space for people around us. By the end of the course, we will see one theme emerge: people come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and we have to understand how to interact with others who are different from us.