Introduction: Storm Cloud Butterflies. 1. Gender Affirmative ACT. 2 Awareness. 3. Acceptance. 4. Actualization. 5. Adaption: ACT for Transgender Mental Health. 6. Affirmation. 7. Epilogue: Of Moths & Meaning.
A guide to equip professionals with the tools to use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with transgender and non-binary clients
Alex Stitt, LMHC is a mental health counselor specializing in LGBTQ identity acquisition. Alex has also worked for a neuro-developmental rites of passage mental health program, implementing ACT, CPT, CBT, PCT and horticultural therapy techniques to help young adults develop healthy identity constructs.
Alex Stitt has written a truly delightful, comprehensive,
thoughtful, and engaging book about working with trans and
nonbinary clients in therapy. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
(ACT) - a mindfulness based approach - provides a meta framework
for understanding gender, sexuality, and intersectional identities.
I have learned so much from Alex Stitt's perspective, about the
complexity of gender, the power of relational therapy, and of
course, about ACT - a series of skills and techniques available to
all clinicians, regardless of your background and training. The
tone is deceptively casual, the language is decidedly queer, and
the range of tools is broad and comprehensive.
*Arlene Lev, School of Social Welfare, University of Albany,
Choices Counseling and Consulting, Author of Transgender Emergence:
Therapeutic Guidelines for Working With Gender Variant People and
Their Families*
Alex Stitt has accomplished something wonderful; they have fully
elaborated the relevance of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy to
working with gender and gender identity. This book is grounded in
cultural awareness of the needs of gender diverse clients with a
strong unifying thread of respect for the agency and autonomy of
transgender, genderfluid, and non-binary clients.
*Matthew D. Skinta, Ph.D., ABPP, Peer-Reviewed ACT Trainer,
Assistant Professor, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL*
A courageous volume that leaves no issue unexamined in its goal of
modifying and applying ACT to function as a gender affirmative
therapy. Never condemning, and yet never avoidant, this book asks
practitioners to look deeply within themselves and to embark on a
values-based journey to create a space in which the full range of
issues in gender identity, expression, and experience can be
approached openly, competently, and compassionately. Moving, wise,
and effective it rises to the challenge it sets for itself, and
invites readers to do likewise.
Highly recommended.
*Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D., Foundation Professor of Psychology,
University of Nevada, Reno, Co-developer of Acceptance and
Commitment Therapy and author of A Liberated Mind*
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