Trainings
Learn from the experts about gender affirming care.
Clinical Consultation with Alexander Stefanini, Founder of Arrive Therapy
Our founder, Alexander Stefanini, shares his story, the story of Arrive Therapy, and how he lives authentically in all aspects of his life. During this training, he provides expert insights into transgender life, gained by years of being a therapist to the trans community.
This specialized training is tailored to your organization's specific needs and the unique situations of your clients, patients, or constituents. Alexander works with you ahead of time to address predetermined topics and questions that align with your requirements, while also being available to answer spontaneous questions and provide case consultations on the clients and patients you serve.
Let his experience show you and the young people in your life that coming out and living your life authentically is the right decision for most people, and how damaging myths around trans life and trans joy can hold us back in all aspects of our life. Through this interactive training format, you'll gain practical tools and insights to better support your community.
21 Ways you can Support Your Trans Student / Child / Patient
Strengthen Your Relationship While Providing Life-Saving Support
When a young person comes out or begins exploring their gender identity, your response can be transformative. This evidence-based training equips parents and caregivers with practical tools to navigate this journey with love, understanding, and confidence.
How to Create a Trans Welcoming Workplace
Building Inclusive Organizations Through Strategic Transgender Inclusion Policies and Practices
Creating a truly transgender-inclusive workplace requires more than good intentions—it demands strategic planning, comprehensive policies, and cultural transformation. This training program provides HR professionals, managers, and organizational leaders with the tools and knowledge needed to build workplaces where transgender employees can thrive authentically and safely. From developing non-discrimination policies to navigating facility access, from healthcare coverage to everyday workplace interactions, participants will gain practical expertise in all aspects of transgender workplace inclusion. The program combines business case analysis, legal compliance guidance, policy templates, and real-world scenarios to ensure participants leave with immediately implementable strategies for organizational change.
Comprehensive Trans-Affirming Care: From Intake to Discharge
Gender 101 & 201: Foundation to Advanced Practice
Transform your facility's approach to transgender patient care with this comprehensive training designed specifically for medical and mental health professionals. Master the fundamentals and advance to sophisticated care strategies that ensure transgender patients receive affirming, competent treatment at every touchpoint.
Gender Affirming Surgeries 101
A Comprehensive Training for Mental Health Professionals
Are you prepared to support your transgender clients through one of the most significant decisions of their lives? This groundbreaking webinar fills a critical gap in clinical training by providing mental health professionals with essential knowledge about gender affirming surgeries. Led by Alexander Stefanini, LPC—a licensed professional counselor, trans man, and owner of Arrive Therapy—this training offers rare insights into the surgical process, emotional considerations, and comprehensive care strategies that most clinicians never receive in their education. Through detailed explanations, personal stories, and practical guidance, you'll gain the competency and confidence needed to effectively support clients before, during, and after their gender affirming surgery journey.
Campus Community Resilience Training
A Four-Part Series for LGBTQIA+ Student Empowerment
Join us for a transformative professional development opportunity designed to strengthen LGBTQIA+ student communities through collective action and mutual support. This interactive four-part series dives deep into community-building practices while providing hands-on experience with real-world scenarios. Explore personal resilience strategies, examine mental health and discrimination and participate in collaborative workshops. Ensure every LGBTQIA+ student has access to the support they need to thrive.
How to Mobilize and Support the Transgender and Gender Expansive Community in our Ever Changing World
An Essential Training for Advocacy and Community Support
Join us for a professional development opportunity which will equip you with the confidence to mobilize support for transgender communities during these challenging times. This interactive training delves into advanced advocacy strategies and hands-on experience with real-world scenarios. Explore current policy landscapes, learn evidence-based support approaches, and practice navigating community needs with expert mental health professionals. By the end of this session, you'll have the tools to approach transgender advocacy with strategic thinking, cultural competency, and genuine effectiveness—ensuring your efforts create lasting impact for the communities you serve.
Guiding Clients Through the Coming Out Process: A Clinical Training
Evidence-Based Strategies for Supporting LGBTQIA+ Clients in Their Journey
Coming out represents one of the most complex experiences in the lives of sexual and gender minorities. This comprehensive training equips mental health professionals with the essential skills and knowledge needed to skillfully guide clients through this deeply personal process. Drawing from current research and clinical best practices, participants will learn to help clients navigate coming out decisions across different life domains while maintaining safety, authenticity, and psychological well-being. The training emphasizes the fundamentals of client-centered care, explores various coming out methods and their implications, and addresses the unique considerations for transgender individuals versus LGB clients.
What Can Schools Do To Support Trans Students? A Professional Development Training
Creating Inclusive Educational Environments for Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Youth
Transgender students face unique challenges in educational settings, from navigating daily interactions to accessing basic facilities safely. This professional development training equips educators, administrators, and school staff with practical strategies to create supportive, inclusive environments where all students can thrive. Participants will learn evidence-based approaches to supporting trans students through policy development, inclusive language practices, anti-bullying initiatives, and effective advocacy. The training emphasizes actionable steps that schools can implement immediately while building long-term systemic support structures that benefit the entire school community.
Helping Your LGBTQAI+ Kids Build Resilience: A Parent Training Workshop
Empowering Parents to Raise Strong, Adaptable Children
Resilience—the capacity to successfully preserve or recuperate mental and physical health while facing challenges, change, and negative events—is one of the most valuable gifts you can give your child. This interactive parent training workshop is built on the philosophy that when we "build a child, we won't have to repair an adult." Parents will learn evidence-based strategies to foster resilience in their children, with special attention to the unique stressors faced by kids in LGBTQ+ families. Through practical tools, interactive discussions, and real-world applications, participants will develop the skills needed to support their children through life's inevitable challenges while building their capacity for growth, adaptation, and emotional strength.
Understanding the Intersection of Autism and Transgender Identity
A Comprehensive Training for Supporting Autistic Trans Youth
Join us for a professional development opportunity designed to equip you with the understanding to support autistic transgender and gender-diverse youth. This interactive training goes beyond common myths, going into evidence-based research and clinical insights while providing hands-on experience with real-world case scenarios. Explore the latest stats on the autism-transgender overlap, learn about autigender and neurogender identities, and participate in expert-facilitated discussions where you'll practice navigating the unique mental health needs of this population with seasoned mental health professionals from Arrive Therapy. By the end of this session, you'll have the tools to approach autism-transgender intersectionality with cultural competency, clinical sensitivity, and genuine understanding—ensuring every autistic trans youth receives the affirming, comprehensive support they deserve.