Gender Affirming Care:
What does this look like:
Gender affirming care can be implemented into all of our services. This might include:
Wanting to explore and understand your gender identity and expression;
Having support to navigate your transition;
An assessment and report to help you access the appropriate gender affirming medical care;
Supporting you to share your identity with those you wish to (such as friends, family or work);
Understanding the potential impact of stress due to being part of a social minority.
What to expect:
We can provide gender affirming care through:
Speech Therapy: Gender affirming voice and communication care
Mental Health: Helping you explore and understand your gender or sexuality. As well as assisting with communication to your significant others about your gender.
Relationship Work: Supporting communication within relationships to explore and understand gender identity or sexuality, or supporting relationships through gender transition.
Family Therapy: We can help families talk about gender and understand concepts and ideas about gender. Aswell as help families understand each other’s perspectives about gender and supporting joining together as a family. This may be particularly important to support each other through gender transition, which we can guide you through.