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Queering Mental Health
Title of Event: Queering Mental Health
Description of Event:
Join us on online on April 24th and 25th, 2025 to spark conversations and generate new knowledge about queer mental health.
The 2025 line-up features incredible speakers including Kai Cheng Thom and Martha Kauppi.
Each year, Queering Mental Health draws together 2SLGBTQIA+ practitioners, advocates, and culture-creators who work at the forefront of the mental health and therapy fields. In 2025, we’ll be hosting the same caliber of exciting speakers with diverse lenses and experiences, and will be generating new and expanded opportunities for community connections.
Whether you attend live or watch recordings, Queering Mental Health is a space for us to gather and collaborate on steering the discussion of our community’s mental health care.
Date of Event: April 24 and 25, 2025
Location: Online: attend live or watch the recordings at a time that works for you!
Sexuality Counseling (SC) Training:
SC1. Theory and methods of personal/individual counseling.
SC2. Theory and methods of sexuality counseling approaches to specific populations (e.g., youth, older adult, couples, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, ethnic/ cultural/ faith-based populations).
SC3. Theory and methods of different approaches to intervention in relationship systems.
SC6. Theory and practice of consultation, collaboration and referral.
Sex Therapy (ST) Training:
ST5. Principles of consultation, collaboration and referral.
Presenter/Speaker: Martha Kauppi, Kai Cheng Thom, Aziz Mirza, Aden Cosgrove, Laura Mayne, Tracy Whitmore, and more.
Company/Organization Sponsor: Our Landing Place
Contact Name: Alice Curitz
Contact Telephone Number: (250) 806-0455
Contact Email: alice@ourlandingplace.com
Event Website: https://www.ourlandingplace.com/qmh2025
AASECT Approved CEs: 8
Event Knowledge Areas Covered:
- Developmental Sexuality
- Diversities in sexual expression and lifestyles
- Health/medical factors that influence sexuality
- Intimacy Skills
- Issues related to Sexual Orientation and/or Gender Identity
- Pleasure enhancement skills
- Professional communication and personal reflection skillls
- Socio-cultural and familial factors