#178: Speaking with Transgender and Nonbinary clients with Grace O’ Connor

The Eating Disorder Trap Podcast

Grace O’Connor is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and the Vice-President of Gender Wellness of Los Angeles. Grace specializes in working with the Transgender and Non-binary populations. She obtained her Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University with a specialization in LGBTQ+ identity, and completed her training at the Antioch University Counseling Center and Colors LGBTQ Youth Counseling Center.

Prior to working at Gender Wellness of LA, Grace led the LGBTQ+ program at Westwind Recovery, a dual diagnosis treatment program in West Hollywood California, focusing on LGBTQ+ patients struggling with mental health and addiction-related disorders. Grace, along with her colleague at Gender Wellness of Los Angeles, President and Founder of GWLA Casey Weitzman LMFT, travel throughout the Southern California area conducting talks, trainings and workshops on issues specific to Transgender and Non-binary identity.

Grace has been interviewed for various publications including Healthline.com, The Fight Magazine and verywellhealth.com and is an active member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health [WPATH] and California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists [CAMFT].

We discuss topics including:

• Grace’s story

• Body image in the non-binary community

• When a person begins the process that they are trans/non-binary what they see is not always what they feel in their body

• Representation matters

• Trans women come in different shapes and sizes as do cis women

• “passing “ as a man or “passing” as a woman

• Steps to work on to achieve body neutrality

SHOW NOTES:

www.genwell.org

instagram.com/lagirlgrace

instagram.com/genderwellnessla

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