Trainings Offered by Sebastian
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Upcoming Trainings
Effective and Affirming Clinical Work with TNB Adolescents and Young Adults
Join me at Cape Cod Institute for an incredible for in-depth education about how to best serve trans and nonbinary teens and young adults. This course will be 15 CEs and takes place in the mornings of July 21-25 (Monday through Friday). Take the course in person and enjoy your afternoons and evenings in the outer or lower Cape Cod. Take the course virtually and keep the rest of your day free for work or other responsibilities. This is the second time this course is being offered and last year’s participants had incredibly positive feedback. Register using the code BARR20 for 20% off.
Recordings of Past Trainings
May 2025 Webinar on Sociopolitical Distress in TNB Clients
Supporting Trans & Nonbinary Clients with Sociopolitical Distress
“This was incredibly helpful!”
Are you a mental health professional looking to better support your trans and nonbinary clients during times of sociopolitical distress? This webinar is for you. Learn practical strategies and tools to provide the effective care that is desperately needed right now. Don't miss out on this opportunity to make a difference in the lives of your clients.
Duration: Two hours
Why This Matters:
While the sociopolitical climate in the U.S. (and globally) has been growing increasingly hostile to trans communities in recent years, this has intensified under the current federal government. Since January 2025 especially, trans and nonbinary people have struggled with worsened mental health as communities navigate hateful rhetoric, risk of violence, restrictions to care and other rights, and fear of what's to come.
Many clinicians feel limited in their ability to support trans and nonbinary clients facing this harsh reality and still unpredictable future, with some likening their provision of therapy these days to "offering sunscreen to a person on fire." But therapy can be much more than sunscreen - and it needs to be. Trans and nonbinary communities need access to helpful ways to make sense of and respond to or manage the understandable distress they are experiencing so that they live meaningfully in the present and future. Mental healthcare providers are positioned to be an invaluable resource to trans and nonbinary clients right now - we just need to be grounded in best practices.
What to Expect:
In this webinar, Dr. Sebastian Barr will draw from research, clinical experience, and community knowledge to help clinicians build their capacity to step into this work with confidence and comfort. The webinar will include discussion of general steps and practice considerations, general psychotherapeutic approaches, recommendations for responding to common scenarios, and reflections on caring for ourselves while doing this work.
A similar webinar offered in November 2024 helped thousands of clinicians find their footing and received many pieces of positive feedack. This content has been updated to speak specifically to the concerns and realities we are now facing in Spring of 2025, and what this asks of us as mental health professionals.
Selection of additional positive feedback from live attendees of the May 2025 Webinar:
“This was a fantastic seminar! I so appreciated all of the content.” | “This is so healing as a trans nonbinary therapist.” | “I appreciate you and your work!” | “I am a trans therapist and times have been tough. This was the perfect way to end the week.” | “I’m looking forward to part two!”
November 2024 Webinar on Post-Election Distress in TNB Clients
Note that some of this content is out of date.