July 2025 Train & Gain "The Queer Adjusted Systemic Lens: An Affirming Approach for Queer Clients and their Relationships"
August Tousignant-Stanton, LCSW, LMFT is a therapist, supervisor, and speaker with their private practice Affirming Psychotherapy LLC. August holds a masters in social work and a certificate in intimate relationship/family therapy. August is the Program Director at Denver Family Institute and the Lead Clinician for the newly-developed Queer Youth Program. August has 15 years of experience in the field, and specializes in working with LGBTQIA+ youth and neurodiversity.
Systemic therapists use an unbiased perspective with client systems to build alliance and rapport. At times, this can be to the detriment of queer individuals; validity of queer identity becomes a matter of perspective and negotiable. The Queer Adjusted Systemic Lens: An Affirming Approach for Queer Clients and Their Relationships presentation explores a new approach with interventions for therapists to use to both affirm the identity of queer clients and successfully build alliance with the client system.
Learning Objectives
Describe the need for a queer adjusted systemic lens (QASL) for the queer community, in particular, queer youth.
Name the various models of family systems theory from which the queer adjusted systemic lens is drawn.
Identify the core tenets of the QASL.
Name and describe the five interventions of the QASL model
Join us on the 3rd Thursday of each month for our continuing education Train & Gain webinar series.
[60-minute presentation eligible for 1 CEU then an optional, 30-minute Q&A to follow]
August Tousignant-Stanton, LCSW, LMFT is a therapist, supervisor, and speaker with their private practice Affirming Psychotherapy LLC. August holds a masters in social work and a certificate in intimate relationship/family therapy. August is the Program Director at Denver Family Institute and the Lead Clinician for the newly-developed Queer Youth Program. August has 15 years of experience in the field, and specializes in working with LGBTQIA+ youth and neurodiversity.
Systemic therapists use an unbiased perspective with client systems to build alliance and rapport. At times, this can be to the detriment of queer individuals; validity of queer identity becomes a matter of perspective and negotiable. The Queer Adjusted Systemic Lens: An Affirming Approach for Queer Clients and Their Relationships presentation explores a new approach with interventions for therapists to use to both affirm the identity of queer clients and successfully build alliance with the client system.
Learning Objectives
Describe the need for a queer adjusted systemic lens (QASL) for the queer community, in particular, queer youth.
Name the various models of family systems theory from which the queer adjusted systemic lens is drawn.
Identify the core tenets of the QASL.
Name and describe the five interventions of the QASL model
Join us on the 3rd Thursday of each month for our continuing education Train & Gain webinar series.
[60-minute presentation eligible for 1 CEU then an optional, 30-minute Q&A to follow]
August Tousignant-Stanton, LCSW, LMFT is a therapist, supervisor, and speaker with their private practice Affirming Psychotherapy LLC. August holds a masters in social work and a certificate in intimate relationship/family therapy. August is the Program Director at Denver Family Institute and the Lead Clinician for the newly-developed Queer Youth Program. August has 15 years of experience in the field, and specializes in working with LGBTQIA+ youth and neurodiversity.
Systemic therapists use an unbiased perspective with client systems to build alliance and rapport. At times, this can be to the detriment of queer individuals; validity of queer identity becomes a matter of perspective and negotiable. The Queer Adjusted Systemic Lens: An Affirming Approach for Queer Clients and Their Relationships presentation explores a new approach with interventions for therapists to use to both affirm the identity of queer clients and successfully build alliance with the client system.
Learning Objectives
Describe the need for a queer adjusted systemic lens (QASL) for the queer community, in particular, queer youth.
Name the various models of family systems theory from which the queer adjusted systemic lens is drawn.
Identify the core tenets of the QASL.
Name and describe the five interventions of the QASL model
Join us on the 3rd Thursday of each month for our continuing education Train & Gain webinar series.
[60-minute presentation eligible for 1 CEU then an optional, 30-minute Q&A to follow]