Low/No-Cost Talk Tonight!

Hello comrades in care,

I’ll share a full update later this month, but wanted to let you know about an opportunity to continue expanding our capacity to meet trans clients’ needs in these challenging times. This evening from 7:30-9pm Eastern, I’ll be giving a talk titled Working with Trans and Nonbinary Clients Amidst Sociopolitical Hostility hosted by the Rhode Island Association for Psychoanalytic Psychologies.

This talk, adapted from my longer trainings will emphasize bearing witness and radical hope as critical components to clinical work with trans folks in our current context. I will include some examples of recent clinical work of my own to illustrate how this manifests and include reflection on the modern psychoanalytic/psychodynamic tensions between attention to internal world and recognition of external realities. I’m quite excited about this opportunity.

RIAPP is offering this talk as free to members, $25 for non-members, and $10 for students. They also offer a no-questions-asked no-cost option if that is best for your needs. Register now if you’d like to attend this evening: https://www.riapp.org/events/sebastian-barr-phd. If you have any questions about the event, please reach out to RIAPP directly - though it may be too short of notice to expect a reply before the event. (My apologies for not alerting folks to this talk sooner.)

Additionally I will remind y’all that I do have two full trainings available on-demand via my website: transpsychologist.com/trainings 

I imagine this email is being received by minds that may be heavy with scary and awful recent events both related and less-directly-related to trans communities. Perhaps also you are reading this in the context of a perfect autumn day or with anticipation of something wonderful that is about to happen in your life. Maybe you’ve had a really good couple of clinical sessions this week. Maybe you’re work has been exhausting. Likely a mix. Whatever you are holding, I’m grateful for your commitment to our communities and to a better world.

In solidarity,

Sebastian