Our goal at the Child and Adolescent Gender Identity Clinic is to provide a broad range of clinical services to gender-nonconforming and transgender youth and their families. We believe that educating the family is essential; psycho-educational topics may include biological sex, gender identity, gender roles, and sexual identity.
This specialty clinic will provide comprehensive outpatient services to gender-variant children and teens across Chicago and neighboring communities. We aim to help youths and their families create and maintain a “safe space” in their day-to-day lives.
Services include
• Individual psychotherapy to address the needs of the youth • Helping the youth give voice to personal experience • Gender-based education and consultation for parents • Family and supportive counseling for parents and siblings • Differential diagnosis when other mental health issues co-occur • Active response to gender-based oppression and trauma • Consulting with teachers and school administrators • Comprehensive psychological assessment • Community-based advocacy • Bullying-prevention tactics • Isolation and loneliness prevention • Sexual health education for teens • Psychological management of pubertal suspension in teens • Management of disclosure to extended family