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Clarified Bodywork LLC – An LGBTQIA+ Inclusive Practice
What can I expect from Clarified Bodywork as an LGBTQIA+ Inclusive practice?
My mission is to make sure everyone feels safe and respected on my table, and that is important for this message to stand out and let people know what to expect. Below are a few important extra steps that I take to make sure clients in the LGBTQIA+ community feel safe and respected in my care, especially with receiving a service that already asks vulnerability of its clients. It is also a priority in my practice to meet the needs of trans and non-binary community members seeking my care.
Respecting Pronouns
This is a simple but important one, I will respect the pronouns that you write out in your intake or introduce yourself with.
Trauma Informed Approach - Consent is Key
In my sessions I like to remind everyone, you are in control of the session. I think this is even more important working with our community in a service that asks vulnerability during care. My sessions are not just customizable in the hands-on work we do; pressure, heat, positioning, and areas worked, but in allowing you to set your boundaries and change them as you need. Consent also yours to adjust or withdraw at any time, and that can be as simple as changing or excluding a focus area, working through clothes or sheets, taking a break, or ending a session if you need to.
Inclusive LGBTQIA+ Training
I have completed classwork to professionally improve myself as a wellness provider to the LGBTQIA+ community, to better communicate, practice inclusivity, understand, and meet the wide and varying needs of clients in our wonderfully gender diverse community. And like the rest of my education, I am always looking for more resources to improve.
Luigi Continenza's "Beyond the Binary" is a gender-affirming care course I took that is extremely comprehensive. Not only do I recommend this course in particular, but I strongly encourage other LMTs working with trans and gender-diverse people in the community to take coursework like this, so we can uplift fellow providers doing this work and increase accessibility to informed care.
Beyond the Binary is available online here.
Inclusive Paperwork
I have customized my paperwork to better accommodate the wide range of gender identities and needs of clients in our community, if there are questions you think I'm missing to help take care of you please let me know and I will factor it into my next update.
Always looking to Improve
I am very busy behind the scenes and eager to learn and explore resources that will help me take better care of my LGBTQIA+ clients. It is an important goal of mine to make this practice not only inclusive and gender affirming, but to learn hands-on techniques that can meet the specific needs of trans and non-binary clients in the community with my practice. In long run I aim for proficiency that would allow me help train other therapists and make sure such care is more available.
If there's anything on your radar like classes, other providers in the community I can refer back and forth with, or other resources, please let me know!
Check out my Facebook and Instagram social media for updates and recommendations for other small businesses in the community that I'm networking with and what I'm up to in general!
BE WELL AND BE PROUD
Want to know what else I am up to? Here's my social media links! I'm getting more active on instagram right now!
Massage that is Rejuvenating Soothing Relaxing Relief Refreshing through Attentive Care and Tailored to you. Massage that considers the needs of members of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Non-Binary Two-Spirit Intersex Asexual LGBT LGBTQ+ populations and the specific considerations that should be made working on Queer bodies. Is Queer owned and Trans Inclusive and Non Binary inclusive Size Inclusive Fat Positive and Respects a Gender Diverse crowd and determined to offer gender affirming trauma informed care to the surrounding communities of Milwaukee MKE Franklin Hales Corners Greenfield Greendale Southeastern Wisconsin Muskego