This webinar specifically addresses the ethics exemplar found in Pope et al. within the Association of Counseling Sexology and Sexual Wellness (ACSSW) Sexuality Exemplars. It critically engages with how dominant counseling ethics and sexual wellness frameworks, including those informed by the American Counseling Association (ACA) Code of Ethics, may be shaped by colonial, white-centered, and binary assumptions that can create ethical blind spots when working with gender diverse clients of color. The program situates ethical decision-making within a broader social justice and decolonizing framework, drawing on the ethics exemplar found in Pope et al. (2025) within the Association of Counseling Sexology and Sexual Wellness (ACSSW) Sexuality Exemplars, the intersectionality theory (Collins & Bilge, 2016), the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (Ratts et al., 2016), and cultural humility as an ethical practice stance (Schubert & Pope, 2023).

This webinar will critically examine how colonial, white, and binary assumptions shape counseling ethics and sexual wellness frameworks, particularly in ways that influence clinical judgment, diagnostic interpretation, and intervention selection. The second objective focuses on describing the intersectional experiences and ethical risks faced by gender diverse clients of color in clinical settings, including compounded impacts of racism, anti-indigenous racism, transphobia, and systemic barriers to care. The third objective requires participants to identify and evaluate common counseling practices that may reinforce harm, such as misgendering, cultural invalidation, and structural limitations within healthcare systems, using affirming and justice-oriented ethical lenses. The fourth objective emphasizes applying decolonized and affirming approaches that center gender diverse narratives, ethical accountability, and culturally responsive sexual wellness practices in clinical work. This includes integrating transgender-affirmative counseling approaches (Mizock & Lundquist, 2016) and WPATH Standards of Care Version 8 (WPATH, 2022) to guide ethical and clinically competent decision-making. Participants will learn to apply intersectional and decolonizing frameworks to ethical case conceptualization, recognize systemic and interpersonal sources of harm in counseling practice, and develop affirming interventions that support gender diverse clients of color in sexual wellness contexts. The program will use case-based analysis, reflective practice exercises, and scenario-based ethical decision-making activities aligned with the ACSSW Sexuality Exemplars to strengthen clinicians’ ability to engage in accountable, culturally responsive, and affirming care.

Presented by Angela Ryckman-Thalassites, PhD, Iris Wilson-Farley, MBA, and Janae Dunlop, BScN, MACP, CCC (Canadian Certified Counsellor)

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