Queer Affirmative Therapy Practitioner Course – 1 Month

1 Month Queer Affirmative Therapy Practitioner Course 
Classes – Monday, Tuesday
Time – 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Stating Date – 15 June 2026
There will be a real Client/Patient interaction for real practical Exposure
(Attention – The client is willing to volunteer and knows that he/she will be a part of training)
There will be dedicated classes for roleplays
Attention – Lifetime Recording will be provided of all the classes

1-Month Queer Affirmative Therapy Practitioner Course Curriculum

Class 1: Understanding “Queer” / LGBTQIA+

• Understanding the terms beyond the letters
• Gender vs Sexuality
• Pronouns
• Queer-friendly vs affirmative approaches

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Class 2: Understanding Normative Gender & Sexuality

• The “Charmed Circle”
• The Power Privilege Walk
• “Sexuality Talk” in the clinical setting

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Class 3: Unique Life Struggles – Sexuality

• Minority stress
• Concealment
• Coming out
• Internalised homonegativity

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Class 4: Unique Life Struggles – Gender

• Trans unique life struggles (ULS)
• Indian identities and lived realities
• Emotional landscape
• Family work and support systems

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Class 5: Queer Relationships & Kinship

• Couple stressors
• Context of deprivation
• Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
• Chosen family
• Community and belongingness

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Class 6: Pathologisation & Affirmative Framework

• Historical understanding of pathologisation
• The Indian socio-cultural context
• Harmful, neutral, and affirmative distinctions in therapy

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Class 7: QACP & Its 9 Tenets

• Understanding all nine tenets
• Clinical applications
• Therapeutic checklists and practice tools

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Class 8: Queering Therapeutic Approaches

• Case studies and applied learning
• Queering CBT
• Person-Centered Therapy (PCT)
• Narrative Therapy
• Feminist & Collaborative Therapy (FCT)

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Class 9: Queering Family & Couple Therapy

• Suicide and crisis considerations
• Diagnostic concerns
• Neurodivergent-queer recovery perspectives
• Inclusive family and relationship therapy practices

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Class 10: Integration & Ongoing Commitment

• Positionality revisited
• Ethics in queer affirmative practice
• Creating a 90-day implementation and growth plan

The Last class will be an Assessment based Roleplay Session

Final Integration + Evaluation