Enhance your capacity to provide safe, inclusive, and affirming mental health support for LGBTQ+ clients.
LGBTQ+ people experience disproportionately high rates of mental ill‑health, often linked to stigma, discrimination, minority stress, and barriers to accessing culturally safe support. For many clients, their interaction with a mental health practitioner shapes whether they feel safe enough to disclose, engage, and continue seeking care. Inclusive practice is therefore essential to delivering effective, person‑centred mental health support.
This comprehensive full‑day training deepens your understanding of LGBTQ+ identities, lived experiences, and mental health priorities, while equipping you with practical strategies to embed inclusive practice into your everyday work. Developed and delivered by LGBTQ+ community members and subject matter experts, the session blends foundational knowledge with applied learning through case studies, reflective activities, and real‑world scenarios.
Across the day, you’ll explore terminology, lived experience, discrimination and its impacts, mental health determinants, barriers to care, and the practical steps practitioners can take to create culturally safe, inclusive, and affirming mental health services. Designed for professionals working in mental health support, this training supports you to confidently engage with LGBTQ+ clients and adapt your practice to meet their unique needs.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Define LGBTQ+ and differentiate between gender, sexuality, and related concepts, and describe diverse experiences within LGBTQ+ communities.
- Explain how discrimination, stigma, and historical context shape the mental health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ people.
- Identify key mental health disparities and describe the determinants of mental health for LGBTQ+ communities.
- Discuss the unique challenges LGBTQ+ people may face when accessing mental health services and strategies to reduce barriers and increase inclusion.
- Apply inclusive, person‑centred, culturally safe, and trauma‑informed approaches when supporting LGBTQ+ clients.
- Implement practical LGBTQ+‑affirming allyship strategies using inclusive language, respectful communication, and adaptations to service environments.
This training is eligible for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points.
If you’re interested in this course but unable to run a full‑day session, contact us to discuss delivering it in two or more parts to support spaced practice.
How To Book:
Please fill out our Training Request Form or email PrideTraining@acon.org.au to book your session today. Payment is made via invoice.
Please make sure to read our Cancellation & Refund Policy.
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