Abstract: This training is designed to help participants recognize and transform a range of assumptions they may have regarding the process of effectively providing domestic violence treatment to LGBTQ offenders and domestic violence advocacy to LGBTQ survivors.

The morning portion of the training will identify and challenge many heteronormative perspectives about LGBTQ DV, and it will discuss helpful alternatives in both theory and practice. This training will enable participants to:

1. recognize and use appropriate LGBTQ DV terms and language
2. include unique LGBTQ-specific assessment elements in the evaluation process including an aggression continuum, stage of coming-out, internalized HP, role of sex and gender stereotypes, partner discrepancies, and access to LGBTQ resources
3. recognize and challenge unique clinical components, including power-and-control patterns in LGBTQ relationships and LGBTQ-use theory
4. identify and manage unique group roles and guidelines in LGBTQ treatment groups, including proper placement options for transgender and bisexual clients
5. improve forms and documents as well as LGBTQ "safe-space" indicators

The afternoon portion of the training will introduce participants to social justice competencies as a tool for promoting holistic human development followed by skill building in individual and group counseling settings using real life examples and scenarios while examining our own privileges through self-reflection. Social Justice Counseling can be considered a "fifth force" in counseling approaches, preceded by Psychodynamics, Cognitive Behavioral, Humanistic, and Multicultural Counseling. Social Justice Counseling theory views that advocates are uniquely positioned to address social justice issues, emphasizing prevention, client-defined, trauma-informed and strength-based approaches. Incorporating Social Justice Counseling in our practice and connecting victims/survivors/perpetrators' mental health conditions to a broader context of violence can help transform social structures by recognizing the impact that unequal power, unearned privileges, and oppression has on one's well-being. Therefore, it is increasingly essential for advocates and mental health providers to be proficient in social justice competencies.

Training Hours Certificate: 7 Hours toward Same-Sex Specific Population

Speakers:

Peter Di Leo, LPC, specializes in psychotherapy for gay and lesbian clients, particularly relationship counseling.  For the past 20 years, Peter has developed innovations in relationship counseling to meet the unique needs of the gay and lesbian community.  He is certified in EMDR, addictions counseling, and holds membership in many organizations promoting improvement in domestic violence intervention.  Peter teaches part time at Denver Behavioral Health Center and at Metropolitan State College of Denver, and he is an approved treatment provider for domestic violence and is current Clinical Coordinator of the Denver County Office of AMEND.  Peter is currently a member of the Domestic Violence Offender Management Board, serving since 2000.

 

Tsunemi Maehara Rooney, M.A. in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University. She was adjunct faculty at University of Colorado Boulder and Naropa University from 2003 - 2010. She has been a practicing psychotherapist for over 30 years and has 17 years of experience as a Diversity and Equity consultant and Trainer. As the counseling Program Director at Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence (SPAN), she provides training and seminars on intersectionality of oppressions, inclusivity, and domestic violence to a wide variety of audiences as well as clinical supervision to staff and counseling interns.

Abstract:This training will assist the provider in gaining skills in Assessment, Evaluation and Treatment of Women Defendants using The Best Practices Guidelines from the Colorado Domestic Violence Offender Management Board Treatment Standards.  Topics include a discussion of current research, an exploration of arrest situations, integrating unresolved anger from past and current relationships into the treatment plan, diagnoses and substance abuse issues.   Focus for treatment will be on choosing and creating treatment methods that will enhance the defendants' treatment experience.

 

Training Hours Certificate: 14 Hours toward Female Specific Population

Speakers: Tina Busey, LPC, CACIII, EMDR Certified

Tina Busey has been in the mental health field since 1983 and the domestic violence field since 1985. After working at a local mental health center, she now maintains a private practice focusing on trauma and healing. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Certified Drug and Alcohol Abuse Counselor, approved by the Colorado Domestic Violence Offender Management Board to provide treatment for domestic violence offenders. She is also certified by the Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing International Association as an EMDR therapist and has utilized this intervention for trauma issues, grief and loss, spiritual issues and with anxiety and depression. Tina has worked with both men and women perpetrators of domestic violence and is currently the Director of Busey Counseling Services, LLC., a program specifically designed to treat women offenders of domestic violence. She continues to maintain her private practice in working with trauma and healing. She has conducted trainings and workshops for police, probation, peer treatment providers, and for the Colorado Organization for Victim Assistance (COVA).