Transgender and Gender Diverse (TGD) Adults: Guidelines and Updates - 3 CEs

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When & Where:

• Date: Friday, November 7, 2025
  • If you cannot attend this workshop on 11/7, you can pre-register for the on-demand version here: https://www.theknowledgetree.org/p/transgender-gen...
• Time: 10:00am - 1:15pm Eastern Time
• CE Hours Included: 3 Core (please see below for details)
• Location: Live Interactive Webinar ("Synchronous") on Zoom
• Investment: $87 before Friday, October 24th at 5:00pm Eastern Time, $97 after
• Presented by: Ren Massey, Ph.D. (see bio below)
• Workshop Recording: A recording of this workshop is available to review for 60 days after the presentation. However, participants must attend live to receive the "Synchronous" CE Certificate.
• Instruction Level: Intermediate
• Target Audience: Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Psychotherapists, Other Mental Health Professionals
• Recommended Prerequisite: Competent Care for Transgender & Gender Nonconforming Adult Clients
  • Click HERE to purchase this course as well as Dr. Massey's recommended prerequisite course for a discounted bundle price!

Learning Objectives:

After completing this workshop in its entirety, you will be able to:

• Illustrate how the WPATH Standards of Care were developed & provide updates
• Apply current affirming language when working with TGD adults
• Discuss significant social stressors for TGD adults
• Demonstrate five pieces of information or approaches to support TGD adults

Workshop Description:

This workshop is an extension and update of "Competent Care for Transgender & Gender Nonconforming Adult Clients," Dr. Ren Massey’s first program for the Knowledge Tree. In this program, attendees will learn essential information from the latest Standards of Care Version 8 (SOC 8) published by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). The WPATH SOC 8 are the guidelines used by insurance companies and many experts in the field of TGD care, so anyone working with transgender and gender diverse (TGD) clients should be familiar with the SOC. Dr. Massey will review the recommendations in half of the chapters, relevant for adults, of the SOC 8. Additionally, some of the latest research relevant to TGD people will be covered. Experiencing and coping with Minority Stress related to being TGD and intersecting identities and social realities will be addressed. Dr. Massey will provide specific clinical approaches to supporting TGD people, including information to gather from clients and interventions to benefit them. Attendees are encouraged to interact with Dr. Massey and other attendees, with 20-30 minutes dedicated to case discussion and Q&A.

*NOTE: To maximize the benefit of this second program in a series on working with TGD adults, taking Competent Care for Transgender & Gender Nonconforming Adult Clients (6 hours) is a helpful foundation to build on and is strongly recommended because some concepts discussed will assume knowledge provided in the precursor 6-hour program. To ensure you have the benefit of the first workshop in the series, it is offered at a bundled price with this second workshop.

** Also, a future program by Dr. Massey will address working with TGD Adults coming out and living within their family, social, and work/education contexts, and will review the other half of the (adult) chapters of the SOC 8. Please stay tuned.

Workshop Agenda:

• Welcome - 5 minutes
  • Disclosures
  • Objectives
  • Outline content
• Introduction to Trans* Care - 25 minutes
  • Recent developments in diagnosis and treatment in trans care
  • Introduction to WPATH, Current Standards of Care (SOC) 8
• Terminology & Application of SOC - 30 minutes
  • Terminology, concepts, and language recommendations
    • SOC Chapter 1 - Terminology
      • Evolving vocabulary
      • Respectful and Open language
    • SOC Chapter 2 – Global Applicability
      • Global Application
      • Exercise: A Day in the Life #1
• Foundational Information - 30 minutes
  • SOC Chapter 3: Population estimates
  • SOC Chapter 4: Education
  • Minority Stress
    • Mega-threats
    • Other stressors
    • Coping Concerns
• Break
• Clinical Implications - 20 minutes
  • Exercise: A Day in the Life
  • Concerns about MH Professionals
  • Essential client information
  • Clinical issues
• Healthy coping mechanisms - 45 minutes
  • SOC Chapter 14 – Voice & Communication
  • SOC Chapter 8 – Nonbinary
  • SOC Chapter 18 – Mental Health
  • Harm of “Conversion Therapy”
  • SOC Chapter 11: Institutional Environments
  • Resources
• Case discussions and Q&A - 25 minutes

Presented by: Ren Massey, Ph.D.

Ren Massey, Ph.D. (he/him), was awarded the 2025 Distinguished Adjunct Faculty Community Service Award for his years of service to the transgender and gender diverse (TGD) community by the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University’s School of Medicine. At the 2024 WPATH Symposium in Lisbon, Dr. Massey received the WPATH Harry Benjamin Distinguished Education Award for years of providing and organizing educational programs around the world on transgender and gender diverse issues. Dr. Massey has been a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in the Atlanta area for over 30 years. He conducts psychotherapy and evaluations for children, adolescents, and adults, and specializes in LGBTQIA+ issues, particularly in gender identity.

Dr. Massey was elected a Fellow of the Georgia Psychological Association (GPA) for founding the committee that is now GPA’s Gender & Sexual Minorities Committee. He has served GPA in many roles, including GPA’s Ethics Committee and 2017-18 GPA’s President. For the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), he has served on the Board of Directors and on the committee that updated the WPATH Standards of Care (Version 8) for people who are Transgender and Gender Diverse. After serving on the Faculty and Steering Group of the WPATH Global Education Institute (GEI), he was nominated and selected as Mental Health Chair (2021-2024), and he now serves as the Mental Health Programming Chair of WPATH GEI. In this position, he oversees the mental health aspects of the national and international training programs of the WPATH GEI.

Workshop Schedule (Eastern Time):

• 9:30am - 10:00am | Sign-In and Welcome
• 10:00am - 11:30am | Session
• 11:30am - 11:45am | Break
• 11:45am - 1:15pm | Session
• 1:15pm | Continuing Education Certificates Available

3 Core CE Hours Included - Details by License Type Below:

• PSYCHOLOGISTS: The Knowledge Tree, A Summit Professional Education Company is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Knowledge Tree, A Summit Professional Education Company maintains responsibility for this program and its content. For more detailed information on the current CE ruling in Georgia, or if you are licensed in another state or country, please click here.
• COUNSELORS: The Knowledge Tree, A Summit Professional Education Company has been approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP), ACEP No. 7153. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Knowledge Tree, A Summit Professional Education Company is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Please click here for more detailed information.
• SOCIAL WORKERS: TKT has applied for approval for this workshop through the Georgia Society for Clinical Social Work (GSCSW). If you are licensed in another state or country, please click here for more detailed information.
• MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPISTS: TKT has applied for approval for this workshop through the Georgia Association for Marriage & Family Therapy (GAMFT). If you are licensed in another state or country, please click here for more detailed information.

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