LGBTQ+-affirming therapy: What providers may be missing

Even providers familiar with the principles of LGBTQ+-affirming care can overlook important aspects of a client's experience. Identity, race, finances, housing, relationships — these all come together to form a picture that a provider may miss if they’re focused solely on queerness.

Johnson’s lived experience raises questions that providers can act on by challenging their own assumptions and bringing a lens of intersectionality into their work. This e-book serves as a practical audit for your affirming care, from intake to treatment, and provides a working method: Identify an assumption, ask the client, change the plan or process, and check whether it helped.