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The LGBT-Affirmative Psychotherapists Guild of the Greater Kansas City is a grassroots organization of licensed mental and medical healthcare professionals, as well as students-in-training. The Guild offers support and resources for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Inter-sex, Gender Variant, 2-Spirit, Same-Sex attracted, Asexual, Allies, and other sexual minorities. LGBT resources along the top tab of this website are listed according to category. LGBT resources along the left tab provide an overview about local LGBT-Healthcare, Community Resources, and the Guild’s On-line directory of mental and medical healthcare providers .
Click Here to Read the Guild’s Purpose and Mission Statements.
Click Here to learn Why the Guild is Important to our community.
Click Here for Basic LGBTQIA Terminology and Definitions
Guild members meet regularly for consultation and education regarding the healthcare concerns of sexual and gender minorities. Guild members are also available to speak to organizations about various LGBT topics.
NAVIGATING THE GUILD WEBSITE
Our 2011-2012 Calendar of Events is now posted along the left tab. You can also click below to view the full details of each event.
Please be sure to check out the latest peer-reviewed journal articles and other articles of interest at two locations:
Why the Guild is Important - Recent Articles
There are a number of different types of therapists, most who belong to a governing organization such as the American Psychological Association, the American Counseling Association, or the National Association of Social Workers. You can learn more about the differences between therapists, the abbreviations after their names, and their governing codes of ethics at:
Common Practitioner Codes of Ethics
We operate solely on voluntary contributions and donations. Expenses include our website, online provider directory, e-blasts, printed marketing materials, Pride Festival registration, and more. Please consider donating to the Guild in order to help us continue to provide this great service to the community. Any amount you can contribute is greatly appreciated.... Donate to the Guild
LATEST NEWS FEEDS
Thurs, Mar 21, 2013
8:00am - 9:30am
at UMKC Admin Bldg
2012-2013 IN-SERVICE TRAINING
The Guild has a great line-up of in-service trainings this year including: LGBT Youth: Bullying as a Public Health Concern, presented by Robert Feuer, Licensed Clinical Psychotherapist; Elderly and Aging LGBT Populations, presented by Margaret Barger, Licensed Professional Counselor; Working within the Gender Spectrum, presented by Caroline Gibbs, from the Transgender Institute; LGBT Individuals with Ability and Impairment Challenges, presented by Faye Skidmore and Shelly Rogers, from the Whole Person; and The-B-in-LGBT, Addressing Needs Specific to Bisexual Identities, presented by Kyle Danner, UMKC Student Counselor In Training
Click here to see our CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Click here to view GUILD PRESENTATIONS
NEW - LGBT Humor Page (Using Humor to Create Therapeutic Common Ground)
NEW - LGBT Human Rights Page (With Map)
NEW - Importance of LGBT Activism
The Guild continues to grow as a major community resource for LGBT healthcare. Click below to read our accomplishments over the 2011-2012 season:
Click here to read the Guild’s 2011-2012 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
GUILD BROCHURE
WHY “REPARATIVE THERAPY” IS UNETHICAL
The American Psychological Association, the American Counseling Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the National Association of Social Workers, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, and others have all issued cautionary statements that gay reparative therapy (ex-gay therapy) is not evidence-based and that research supports the idea that there is significant potential for causing harm to minors (as well as adults).
The American Psychological Association created a nation-wide Task Force on Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Sexual Orientation and issued a resolution on Appropriate Affirmative Responses to Sexual Orientation Distress and Change Efforts in 2009, which states: “The American Psychological Association advises parents, guardians, young people, and their families to avoid sexual orientation change efforts that portray homosexuality as a mental illness or developmental disorder and to seek psychotherapy, social support, and educational services that provide accurate information on sexual orientation and sexuality, increase family and school support, and reduce rejection of sexual minority youth.”
Being lesbian, gay, or bisexual is not a disease, disorder, illness, deficiency, or shortcoming. The major professional associations of mental health practitioners and researchers in the United States have recognized this fact for nearly 40 years....
Read California Legislation on Sexual orientation change efforts.pdf
Click Here to Learn More about why Gay-Reparative Therapy is Considered Unethical
Click Here to Read About Lawsuits Filed Against Gay-Reparative Therapy Practices
Read the Guild’s Position Statements for LGBT-Affirming Therapy
Why Socially-Organized-Hate Should Not Be Protected as Free Speech
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