How can therapists develop cultural humility and avoid imposing their own biases on LGBTQ+ clients?

After six years of conversion therapy, I was suicidal. I was born and raised in a born-again, Evangelical Christian household in a town just outside Glasgow. “Conversion therapies” (or “reparative therapies”) are interventions purported to alter same-sex attractions or an individual's gender expression. Jan 6, 2025 ... A Colorado law that bans licensed mental health professionals from engaging in harmful and ineffective conversion therapy to change a minor's sexual ... In July 2021, Governor Walz signed an executive order for all state agencies to protect Minnesotans from conversion therapy to the fullest extent of their ... Jun 6, 2019 ... This study looks at the prevalence of conversion therapy among LGBT adults and estimates the number of LGBT youth who are likely to undergo the practice before ... Feb 18, 2022 ... Mr. Madrigal-Borloz said he advocates for a world free of the criminalisation of gender orientation and gender identity, including the elimination of ... Apr 29, 2019 ... Recently, conversion therapy has emerged as an alternative therapy for these stage IV patients 26 . It consists in the administration of ... Aug 8, 2019 ... Physicians Call for an End to Conversion Therapy. Conversion therapy is a broad term used to describe practices and actions aimed at changing ... Governor takes important step to protect Kentucky youth, fight discrimination. FRANKFORT, Ky. (Sept. 18, 2024) – Today, Gov. Andy Beshear signed an ... Jun 27, 2023 ... The Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act, introduced Monday in the House by Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) would make it unlawful to provide conversion therapy to “any ...