Category: Queer Mind: LGBTQ and Beyond

What’s Gender Identity Therapy? Best Types of LGBTQIA+ Therapy

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Everyone deserves high-quality, comprehensive healthcare that addresses both physical and mental well-being. For individuals questioning their gender, navigating their identity, or struggling with acceptance from others, gender therapy can be life-saving. After all, studies and surveys consistently show that transgender and non-binary individuals face a disproportionately higher risk of mental health challenges, including anxiety, depression, and suicide, often due to social stigma, family pressure, and internal conflict.

Tips and Tricks for Mindful Relaxation

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Tips and Tricks for Mindful Relaxation

Relaxing isn’t just about resting the body; it also means calming the mind. It lowers blood pressure, reduces the production of stress hormones and heals muscle pain. Adopting mindful techniques is crucial, especially amid a raging pandemic. Work deadlines, which need to be juggled with household responsibilities, children and even pets can get the best of us down. Anxiety can exhaust you and a have real impact, including panic attacks, a sense of doom and loss of libido, according to an article by Healthline. Basically, the inability to relax can influence the quality of your life. So, you need to activate the body’s relaxation response from time to time. Take a look at how to create an aura of calm and profound rest and ensure bursts of mindfulness. Anxiety Therapy Get in touch with the best counsellor in your city. Highly skilled and experienced therapists can target the symptoms and help you understand where the anxiety stems from and help you learn techniques to overcome the anxiety, according to experts at the Institute For Personal Growth. You will be able to disengage your mind from distracting emotions. Muscle Relaxation This is the systematic relaxation of different muscle groups of the… Read more »

10 Things You Might Not Know about Bisexuality

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Bisexuality is widely misunderstood—by heterosexual and gay/lesbian people alike. Here are some things we are beginning to understand about bisexual people. READ MARGIE’S NEW BLOG HERE: “10 THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT BISEXUALITY”

Facebook’s Fifty Shades Of Gender

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by Margie Nichols, Ph.D. Five decades of interaction between “mainstream” and LGBTQ subcultures made Facebook’s much-publicized profile change inevitable. READ MARGIE’S NEW BLOG HERE: “HOW WE ARRIVED AT 50 SHADES OF GENDER OPTIONS ON FACEBOOK”

The Real Treatment Issues for Transgender and Gender Non-conforming Kids

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by Margie Nichols, Ph.D. A nuanced, flexible, and tailored treatment approach to gender identity issues in childhood and adolescence is the prudent approach. Read Margie’s latest blog HERE: https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/transgender-and-gender-nonconforming-youth-the-real-issues-0414145

The Phony Debate About Treatment for Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Kids

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By Margie Nichols Ph. D. Recent published reports woefully miss the mark with regard to treatment pertaining to transgender and gender-nonconforming children.  Read Margie’s latest GoodTherapy.org blog here: https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/phony-debate-about-transgender-and-gender-nonconforming-youth-0306144

Sex Is Queerer Than We Can Imagine—Really

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by Margie Nichols, Ph.D. The neatly categorized notions most people apply to sexual orientation, expression, and gender identity may not be inclusive enough. Read the full blog, published on GoodTherapy.org, here!

Losing Lou Reed: It Takes A Busload Of Faith To Get By

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by Dr. Margie Nichols When Lou Reed’s New York album came out in 1989, many friends and I related instantly. It was hard, harsh and gritty. It expressed the anger, cynicism and mistrust of the government that we all felt. Although only one song, ‘Halloween Parade,’ explicitly referenced gay people and AIDS, it was easy for us queers who were surrounded by the disease and faced with society’s hatred of gay men and the government’s homicidal negligence to identify with Reed’s polemical songs about classism, racism, xenophobia and environmental plunder. They also expressed pain, hopelessness, despair – and yet, in addition, a shred of hope and mysticism. And some songs did all of this in one, like ‘Busload of Faith.’ One of my most vivid memories of that era, one that makes me smile and cry at the same time, is of IPG therapist Curt Schulze and me singing that song together at the top of our lungs. Curt died a couple of years later, of AIDS.

LGBT Youth Suicide

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by Margie Nichols, Ph.D. Check out Margie’s blog on Goodtherapy.org about the problem of suicide among LGBT teens and young adults.  Gay, lesbian, bi and trans and gender non-conforming kids make more suicide attempts than other adolescents – but we can do something about this!

Bisexuality – Still A Hotly Debated Issue – By Straight And Gay People Alike

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by Margie Nichols, Ph.D. The blog I wrote for Goodtherapy.org about bisexuality must have touched a nerve – more people have commented than any other blog I’ve written.  Who knew, more than 20 years after I came out as ‘bi’ in the 1980’s, that it would still be such a hot-button topic? Read it HERE