The Gender and Family Projects is delighted to offer two support groups: Support group for parents of gender nonconforming and transgender youth up to 21 year-old. Play group for gender nonconforming and transgender youth up to 13 year-old. WHEN: Once a month, Friday 5-7pm. WHERE: Ackerman Insititute, 149 East 78 Street, NYC 10075. FEE: Sliding scale INTAKE: Call Jean Malpas, program director at 917.270.5119.

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Upcoming 2-day workshop on May 13 and 14, 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. For registrations

One million Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender individuals marched in Rio with their partners, friends and family in November 2010. This event, celebrating difference and denouncing oppression, shows how contemporary Brazilian families strive to live outside of the old models of gender and sexuality. Masculinity and femininity are getting deconstructed and recreated outside of the traditional gender binary. Sexualities are declared more openly, new relationships, gay, bisexual, fluid or mix, get formed by our clients, by our friends, by our family members, and by ourselves. This international workshop offers to expand your vision of gender and sexuality and welcome a million new families in your office and your organization!

During two days, Jean Malpas will share his broad professional experience of working in couple and family therapy with gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender clients of different ages and cultures. Beyond a normative approach, the therapeutic context can support couples and families to respect and embrace sexual identities under a non-homophobic perspective, contributing for the development of healthy and mutually supportive relationships and communities.

Join us to explore new ways to embrace your and your clients’ gender and sexual fluidity at the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium. Washington, DC, March 2011.

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I presented my work with gender-variant and transgender children and adults at the Psychotherapy Networker in March 2010.

Check out the recording of the session here

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• Are you concerned about your child’s gender behaviors?

• Are you looking for a safe space to share your feelings and learn from other parents in your situation?

This professionally facilitated support group will provide you with a platform to air your experience, explore your dilemmas and hear the solutions and successes that other parents have found with their families. While emphasizing your agenda, the group will focus on fostering positive parent-child relationships in an atmosphere that nurtures your child’s development. Issues of disclosure to family members and friends, advocacy in schools, faith communities and other institutions where the family belongs will be addressed.

• When: The group will meet monthly on the second Friday of the month from 2-4pm. Start date: November 13th, 2009.

• Location: 1133 Broadway – Corner of 26th Street - Suite 521 - New York, NY 10010

• Facilitators: Jean Malpas, LMHC, LMFT & Elijah Nealy, M. Div, LCSW

• For more information, contact Jean Malpas: 917.270.5119

Have you been abusing Crystal Meth? Are you struggling to stay sober? Do you want professional support to strengthen your recovery?

Join “Crystal Free”: A Support Group for Gay Men in Recovery

Crystal Free is a professionally facilitated crystal meth relapse prevention group for gay men. It will start running this Fall on Fridays from 12:15pm to 1:30pm. This closed support group will be facilitated by Jean Malpas, LMHC, LMFT, a gay male psychotherapist and addiction specialist located in Chelsea. Fee: $65 per session.

Attendance requires: * Two intake sessions * On-going mental health treatment * The desire to quit using crystal meth

In the Crystal Free group, you will explore how to: * Recognize your triggers and signs for relapse * Manage your craving * Create and maintain sober connections * Get re-acquainted with sober sex * Understand why crystal had such a grip on you and your life * Tap into your inner resources

For information and registration, call Jean Malpas, LMHC, LMFT at 917.270.5119 or email jean@jeanmalpas.com. Thank you!

Join Ari Istar Lev and myself for an exciting and educational day on gender variance at the Ackerman Institute for the Family on May 15th 2009.

The program will encompass the multiple ways gender variance and transition affect individuals, couples and families, including couples in transition and families with gender-variant children.

To register, please click here

Dear clients,

Starting Monday April 27th, my office will move from Suite 511 to Suite 521 in the same building, 1133 Broadway at the corner of 26th Street. I look forward to receiving you in this new and engaging environment.

Also, please note that my primary phone number will be 917.270.5119. Thank you for discontinuing using my previous number: 646.336.7537.

Thank you for updating your contact information! I look forward to our continued relationship.

I was honored to be one the guests at the first French-speaking Networking Meeting of World Health Organization’s “Healthy Cities” where I presented recent projects on crystal meth addiction and HIV prevention in NYC.

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I am going to spend most of January in Arua, Uganda participating in a course that prepare trainers to train mental health providers working in developing countries affected by war, violence and natural disasters.

This course is sponsored by Global Psycho-Social Initiatives (GSPI) of Kenya and Egypt, International Trauma Studies Program (ITSP) of USA and the Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO) of Uganda.

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Since the release of this interview in May 2006, I have continued to give a lot of thought to crystal meth addiction prevention and intervention. Were I to give this interview today, I would express my opinions somewhat differently. Although I continue to think that demonizing meth users increases their isolation and therefore decreases their chance of recovery, I agree with the importance, from a public health perspective, of highlighting - or even dramatizing - the ramifications of crystal meth use on individuals and communities. Too many people continue to lose themselves and their connection to a sustainable community for the illusion of liberation that crystal deceivingly provides. Psychotherapists, such as public health and community leaders, must hold a complex tension between, on the one side, clarity about the drug’s devastating effects and the necessity to abstain from using to reflect on the meaning of the drug taking and, on the other side, the non-judgmental empathetic position that allows individuals and groups to feel respected enough to open up and change.

I am excited to launch jeanmalpas.com.

This site will function as a platform to share my work with colleagues and clients and announce services, training and writing.

For this purpose I encourage you to join my mailing list (at the bottom of this page). I look forward to working with all of you.

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