Trainings

Bring your team and your community up to speed on the latest in affirming mental health and human resources.

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Campus Community Resilience Training

A Four-Part Series for LGBTQIA+ Student Empowerment

Join us for a transformative professional development opportunity designed to strengthen LGBTQIA+ student communities through collective action and mutual support. This interactive four-part series dives deep into community-building practices while providing hands-on experience with real-world scenarios. Explore personal resilience strategies, examine mental health and discrimination and participate in collaborative workshops. Ensure every LGBTQIA+ student has access to the support they need to thrive.

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How to Create a Trans Welcoming Workplace

Building Inclusive Organizations Through Strategic Transgender Inclusion Policies and Practices

Creating a truly transgender-inclusive workplace requires more than good intentions—it demands strategic planning, comprehensive policies, and cultural transformation. This training program provides HR professionals, managers, and organizational leaders with the tools and knowledge needed to build workplaces where transgender employees can thrive authentically and safely. From developing non-discrimination policies to navigating facility access, from healthcare coverage to everyday workplace interactions, participants will gain practical expertise in all aspects of transgender workplace inclusion. The program combines business case analysis, legal compliance guidance, policy templates, and real-world scenarios to ensure participants leave with immediately implementable strategies for organizational change.

Q & A with Alexander Stefanini, Founder of Arrive Therapy

Our founder, Alexander Stefanini, tells his story, the story of Arrive Therapy, and how he lives authentically in all aspects of his life. He also talks about his expert insights into transgender life, gained by years of being a therapist to the trans community.

Let his experience show you and the young people in your life that coming out and living your life authentically is the right decision for most people, and how damaging myths around trans life and trans joy can hold us back in all aspects of our life.

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How to Mobilize and Support the Transgender and Gender Expansive Community in our Ever Changing World

An Essential Training for Advocacy and Community Support

Join us for a professional development opportunity which will equip you with the confidence to mobilize support for transgender communities during these challenging times. This interactive training delves into advanced advocacy strategies and hands-on experience with real-world scenarios. Explore current policy landscapes, learn evidence-based support approaches, and practice navigating community needs with expert mental health professionals. By the end of this session, you'll have the tools to approach transgender advocacy with strategic thinking, cultural competency, and genuine effectiveness—ensuring your efforts create lasting impact for the communities you serve.

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21 Ways you can Support Your Trans Student/Child/Patient

Strengthen Your Relationship While Providing Life-Saving Support

When a young person comes out or begins exploring their gender identity, your response can be transformative. This evidence-based training equips parents and caregivers with practical tools to navigate this journey with love, understanding, and confidence.

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Comprehensive Trans-Affirming Care: From Intake to Discharge

Gender 101 & 201: Foundation to Advanced Practice 

Transform your facility's approach to transgender patient care with this comprehensive training designed specifically for medical and mental health professionals. Master the fundamentals and advance to sophisticated care strategies that ensure transgender patients receive affirming, competent treatment at every touchpoint.

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Understanding the Intersection of Autism and Transgender Identity

A Comprehensive Training for Supporting Autistic Trans Youth

Join us for a professional development opportunity designed to equip you with the understanding to support autistic transgender and gender-diverse youth. This interactive training goes beyond common myths, going into evidence-based research and clinical insights while providing hands-on experience with real-world case scenarios. Explore the latest stats on the autism-transgender overlap, learn about autigender and neurogender identities, and participate in expert-facilitated discussions where you'll practice navigating the unique mental health needs of this population with seasoned mental health professionals from Arrive Therapy. By the end of this session, you'll have the tools to approach autism-transgender intersectionality with cultural competency, clinical sensitivity, and genuine understanding—ensuring every autistic trans youth receives the affirming, comprehensive support they deserve.

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Guiding Clients Through the Coming Out Process: A Clinical Training

Evidence-Based Strategies for Supporting LGBTQIA+ Clients in Their Journey

Coming out represents one of the most complex experiences in the lives of sexual and gender minorities. This comprehensive training equips mental health professionals with the essential skills and knowledge needed to skillfully guide clients through this deeply personal process. Drawing from current research and clinical best practices, participants will learn to help clients navigate coming out decisions across different life domains while maintaining safety, authenticity, and psychological well-being. The training emphasizes the fundamentals of client-centered care, explores various coming out methods and their implications, and addresses the unique considerations for transgender individuals versus LGB clients.

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Introduction to OCD and Exposure Response Prevention (ERP): A Clinical Training

Essential Skills for Diagnosing and Treating Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder affects millions of individuals worldwide, yet it remains one of the most misunderstood and under-treated mental health conditions. This foundational training provides mental health professionals with the core knowledge and practical skills needed to accurately diagnose OCD and implement Exposure Response Prevention (ERP), the gold-standard evidence-based treatment. Participants will learn to distinguish between obsessions and compulsions, understand the various presentations of OCD across different symptom categories, and develop competency in creating and implementing exposure hierarchies. The training emphasizes hands-on application of ERP principles, including both imaginal and in-vivo exposure techniques that help clients build distress tolerance and break the cycle of avoidance.

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Helping Your Kids Build Resilience: A Parent Training Workshop

Empowering Parents to Raise Strong, Adaptable Children

Resilience—the capacity to successfully preserve or recuperate mental and physical health while facing challenges, change, and negative events—is one of the most valuable gifts you can give your child. This interactive parent training workshop is built on the philosophy that when we "build a child, we won't have to repair an adult." Parents will learn evidence-based strategies to foster resilience in their children, with special attention to the unique stressors faced by kids in LGBTQ+ families. Through practical tools, interactive discussions, and real-world applications, participants will develop the skills needed to support their children through life's inevitable challenges while building their capacity for growth, adaptation, and emotional strength.

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What Can Schools Do To Support Trans Students? A Professional Development Training

Creating Inclusive Educational Environments for Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Youth

Transgender students face unique challenges in educational settings, from navigating daily interactions to accessing basic facilities safely. This professional development training equips educators, administrators, and school staff with practical strategies to create supportive, inclusive environments where all students can thrive. Participants will learn evidence-based approaches to supporting trans students through policy development, inclusive language practices, anti-bullying initiatives, and effective advocacy. The training emphasizes actionable steps that schools can implement immediately while building long-term systemic support structures that benefit the entire school community.