Course Description

Queer Counseling and Narrative Practice (newly revised) offers eight lessons exploring strength-based narrative therapy in working with clients identified as LGBTQ+, their allies, and families. Issues include heterosexism and its discontents, privileging voices from the margins, navigating non-traditional relationships, intersexuality, and narrative approaches in the treatment of trauma. The course features topical readings, instructional videos, dyadic exercises, interactive Padlets, and two full clinical sessions, one with an individual and the other with a couple. For an additional $40, registrants can earn 16 APA-approved CE credits throughAlliant International University

Charley Lang has practiced as a narrative therapist for the past 25+ years and is co-founder of Narrative Counseling Center in Los Angeles, working with a wide diversity of clients, including many queer-identified individuals, couples, families, and their allies. An actor in his previous life (The West Wing, ER, Star Trek: The Next Generation, NYPD Blue, among others…), Charley has produced and directed three award-winning documentary films. He is the director of the psychology concentration program at Antioch University Los Angeles, teaching numerous undergraduate and graduate psychology courses. This offering, Queer Counseling and Narrative Practice, is an online version of one of his most popular courses at Antioch.

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