Queering Your Therapy Practice: Queer Theory, Narrative Therapy, and Imagining New Identities

Winner of the AASECT Book Award for General Audience 2022!

Queering Your Therapy Practice: Queer Theory, Narrative Therapy, and Imagining New Identities is the first practice-based book for therapists that presents queer theory and narrative therapy as praxis allies.

This book offers fresh, hopeful resources for therapists committed to culturally responsive work with queer and trans people and the important others in their lives. It features clinical vignettes from the author’s practice that bring to life the application of queer theory through the practice of narrative therapy and serve as teaching tools for the specific concepts and practices highlighted in individual, relational, and family therapy contexts. The text also weaves in questions for reflection and discussion, and Q-tips summarizing key points and practices.

A practical resource for both seasoned therapists and students, Queering Your Practice Theory demonstrates how therapeutic practice can be informed, improved, and deepened by queer theory.

Julie Tilsen, PhD (she/her/hers), is a therapist, consultant, and trainer, and the author of Narrative Approaches to Youth Work and Therapeutic Conversations with Queer Youth. She is based in the USA.