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‘Therapy First’ Retreat Helps Like-Minded Therapists Share Ideas on Gender Dysphoria Issue

This retreat was a place we could finally be ourselves.
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‘Therapy First’ Retreat Helps Like-Minded Therapists Share Ideas on Gender Dysphoria Issue
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Pamela Garfield-Jaeger
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In mid-June, an organization called “Therapy First” held its very first in-person summer retreat. Therapy First states on its website that the organization “is a non-profit professional association of over 300 mental health providers worldwide who view psychotherapy as the appropriate first-line treatment for gender dysphoria.”
Pamela Garfield-Jaeger
Pamela Garfield-Jaeger
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Pamela Garfield-Jaeger is a licensed clinical social worker with a degree from New York University. She has been licensed in California since 2005 and has worked in a variety of settings, including community-based organizations, schools, residential programs, and medical facilities. She was forced to leave her job because of California’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. This emboldened her to speak out on the problems she observed in the mental health field. Her website is TheTruthfulTherapist.org
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