How Are YOU Doing? The Effects of the 2024 Election on Health Providers Working with the LGBTQ Community

Title of Event: How Are YOU Doing? The Effects of the 2024 Election on Health Providers Working with the LGBTQ Community

Description of Event:

Much of the conversation about the mental health effects of the 2024 election has focused on LGBTQ clients — but what about the providers supporting them? This one-hour live training turns the lens toward the clinicians themselves, presenting findings from the only existing national study to assess how the 2024 election has affected health providers working with LGBTQ individuals and their families, including providers of gender-affirming care.
Drawing from this timely research, Dr. Diamond will explore the double burden facing many providers right now: managing significant changes in their own mental health since the election while simultaneously holding space for the distress of LGBTQ clients. The data reveal elevated rates of burnout among health providers in this space — and also point toward meaningful protective strategies. Social support and connection emerge as key moderating factors, both in overall life and specifically within the workplace, offering clinicians concrete and actionable pathways toward greater resilience and sustainability.
This training is grounded in the core social work values of dignity and worth, the importance of human relationships, and a commitment to social justice — affirming that provider wellbeing is not a luxury but a clinical and ethical imperative, and that caring for oneself is inseparable from caring for others.

Date of Event: 10/27/26

Time of Event: 2:00 PM MST

Location: Online Synchronous

Sex Therapy (ST) Training: 

ST6. Ethical decision-making and best practice.

Presenter/Speaker: Dr. Lisa Diamond

Contact Name: The Healing Group

Contact Email: institute@thehealinggroup.com

Event Website: thehealinggroupinstitute.com

AASECT Approved CEs: 1