Iowa Senate File 538- gender transition procedures related to minors strips providers of Medicaid funding from Sept 18 forward and doesn't allow Medicaid to be used by clients for gender affirming treatment. If a counselor has a transgender client, and has used the gender dysphoria code and many others (7 pages of ICD codes) then they will be retroactively stripped of funding. I am so angry for clients and for providers. As a clinician, I feel so mad that states are telling transgender youth in lower SES that they can't be who they truly are, and now they can't even talk to a counselor. I just can't. @socialwork@Email2TootBot#SocialWork#psych#psychology#iowa#lgbtqia#transgender#transgenderrights#counseling#counselor#therapist#therapy
#ReligiousTrauma#exchristian#secular#humanist#psychology#freedom#counselor#BeYourSelf It’s OK to:
Reject your family’s beliefs
Embrace your Queer self
Mourn the loss of the family you wish you had
Explore things formerly forbidden
Turn down family gatherings
Enjoy sex (solo & with multiple others)
Miss your old community
Build your own community
Get mad
Rest
Love.
Last night I had my first stress nightmare that had content where I was a #counselor instead of CS student, #TechnicalWriter, #manager, or #ProgramManager. So I guess that means all parts of my brain are deciding now I’m a therapist, 4 months after starting to practice?
When I first woke up, my first thought was “ooh! I can now try this nightmare protocol I read about the other day”. 🙃