Experience

2019 Training on gender affirmative psychotherapeutic care for Two Chairs Psychotherapy Clinic and La Cheim Behavioral Health Services

2017-present Contract Trainer, Pacific Center for Human Growth, Berkeley

Training development and implementation: LGBTQ topics

2017 Training on the Gender Affirmative Approach, Ann Martin Center, Emeryville 

2017 Presentation at Gender Spectrum Professionals' Conference

2017 Adjunct Professor, John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley

Training future therapists through experiential, self-reflective, and research-informed classes.

2016-2017 Training for Rainbow Community Center, Concord

2016 Adjunct Professor, Gender Studies, University of California, Berkeley

2003-2010 Tenured Professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa

Duties included curriculum development, assessment, and teaching

2000 Advocacy Coordinator, Sex Workers’ Education and Advocacy Taskforce, Cape Town, South Africa

Duties included outreach work, promotional and publicity work (representing the organization on panel, radio shows, and other kinds of interviews e.g. documentaries); resource development, networking with partner organizations; research and educational work on the decriminalization of sex work

1997-2000 Lay Counsellor, Coordinator, Fundraiser, Trainer, Oxford Sexual Abuse and Rape Crisis Centre, UK

Duties included planning and delivering trainings on rape and sexual violence

I have presented papers at almost 30 conferences all over the world, including as seminar leader. Since coming to the US in 2010 I have presented at the following:

2017. Evidence-Based Advances for Work with Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity Conference, San Jose

Symposium organizer: How to practice social-justice informed care with gender independent clients

2017. Inaugural US conference of World Professional Association for Transgender Health Conference (USPATH), Los Angeles

Member of panel presentation on developing a training model for clinicians developed by "Mind the Gap," mental health wing of the UCSF Gender Clinic

2016. Guest lecturer, Saybrook University, Diversity Luncheon

2016. Workshop leader, American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists Annual Conference, San Francisco

Workshop topic: Ways of Working With Gender
Paper presented: “Gender in Theory”