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Expand your knowledge of the unique experiences of queer clients
Presented by Adam Cohen, LMFT
2 CEs available
Free for Marin CAMFT members and RECAMFT reciprocal chapter members!
This training will not be recorded. Please plan to attend the "live" session on Zoom if you are interested in this learning activity.
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PLEASE NOTE: After you sign up here, you'll be sent instructions on how to complete a separate registration step with Zoom, which is how you will get your Zoom link. You can do that in advance, or right before the meeting begins. This registration step lets us more accurately track attendance in the Zoom meeting for our compliance purposes as a CE provider.
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Workshop Description
Many LGBTQ+ adults enter therapy feeling “behind,” emotionally younger than their peers, or confused by the intensity of their relational, identity, and developmental experiences. These presentations are often misunderstood—or mispathologized—when they are, in fact, rooted in disrupted developmental processes caused by growing up in an anti-queer world.
This training introduces "Second Adolescence" as a clinical and developmental understanding of the post-coming-out years many LGBTQ+ adults experience. "Second Adolescence" is a way to conceptualize this period as a necessary stage of growth and healing in which clients work to reclaim missed psychosocial experiences, repair the impact of chronic shame from anti-queer culture, and develop a more integrated, authentic sense of self.
Participants in this training will explore how heteronormativity, anti-queerness, internalized shame, and the need for concealment interrupt normative adolescent development, often resulting in a developmental “freeze” that reemerges later in adulthood. The training will focus on how these dynamics show up clinically and how therapists can respond with clarity, attunement, and clinical intention for their LGBTQ+ clients.
Educational Goals
This training aims to provide a trauma-informed understanding for treating LGBTQ+ adults navigating the post-coming-out period often referred to as Second Adolescence. Participants will deepen their understanding of how growing up in heteronormativity and anti-queerness disrupts normative development and how these disruptions present in adulthood. Emphasis will be placed on translating theory into clinical practice, including how to conceptualize presenting concerns through a developmental lens, normalize delayed or intensified experiences, and support clients in reclaiming missed psychosocial milestones, healing shame, and fostering integration of their identity.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
- Describe "Second Adolescence" as a developmental and clinical lens through which to understand post-coming-out experiences of LGBTQ+ adults.
- Identify at least three ways internalized anti-queerness and chronic shame disrupt adolescent development and present clinically in adulthood for LGBTQ+ clients.
- Apply trauma-informed, LGBTQ+ affirmative interventions to support clients navigating missed developmental milestones, identity integration, and self-compassion during "Second Adolescence."
Presenter Adam Cohen, LMFT
Adam James Cohen, LMFT specializes in psychotherapy for LGBTQ+ people healing from the traumatic impacts of growing up queer in cultures of anti-queerness. His private practice in San Francisco and Marin has focused on serving this population since 2017. He developed Second Adolescence as a clinical framework for understanding and healing from the trauma of growing up queer in an anti-queer world. He is the executive producer and host of the podcast Second Adolescence.
Registering for this Zoom training does not include access to any recording or an on-demand version.
You will be sent instructions on how to register with Zoom to get your personal Zoom link to use for attendance. Please read the email confirmation you receive after signing up on the Marin CAMFT website for these instructions.
Attendance at the live event in full and completion of the evaluation at the end qualifies for 2 hours of Continuing Education (2 CEs).
Date: Friday, June 12
Time: 12:00 to 2:00 pm Pacific
Cost: Free for Marin CAMFT members and reciprocal members, $30 for non-members; $5 off if you have a referral code.
Location: Online via Zoom. Instructions for registering with Zoom, in order to receive your Personal Zoom Join Link, will be sent in your confirmation message from Marin CAMFT. You will need to complete that second Zoom-registration step in order to receive your Zoom Link by email.
Additional Information about Marin CAMFT CE Programs
For more information about the Friday Continuing Education Series or about joining the Marin CAMFT Continuing Education Committee, please contact our Director of Programs.
- Continuing Education: This workshop meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LEPs and/or LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. These CEs will be provided by Marin CAMFT (CAMFT Provider # 56895), which is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs. We regret that at this time we are not able to provide CE credits for Licensed Psychologists. Participants must attend the full duration of the program (on Zoom, or in person, per event details above) and complete the course evaluation to receive the CE completion certificate. Marin CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Contact our Director of Programs for more information.
- Continuing Education Goal: Marin CAMFT is committed to offering continuing education courses to train LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs to treat any client in an ethically and clinically sound manner based upon current accepted standards of practice.
- Refund Policy: Our refund policy requires a $20 processing fee, and we must be notified in advance of the event if you would like to cancel. We do not provide refunds in case of non-attendance by the registrant. Please contact our Director of Programs with any questions.
- Request for Accommodations: If you need accommodations for this event, please contact the Director of Programs.
- Grievance Procedure: Marin CAMFT will respond to complaints in a reasonable, ethical and timely manner, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Director of Programs.
- Anti-Discrimination Policy: Marin CAMFT shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service, program or activity based on gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, creed, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, ability, or other prohibited basis. Marin CAMFT does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. Marin CAMFT will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice.
Continuing education credits are available for attendance in the Zoom presentation. You must stay on the Zoom meeting for the entirety of the training and complete the course evaluation afterward in order to receive a completion certificate. Because of the requirement to attend the training in full, if you attempt to log in to the Zoom late, after the training is already underway, you may not be admitted. Please log onto the event promptly at the listed start time.
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