TransFormations: Across the Lifespan

TransFormations, one of the longest running clinical conferences focused on working with Trans and Gender Diverse (TGD) communities in the US, returns March 29, 2025. This year’s theme centers around life span issues within the TGD community.

Join us on March 29, 2025 at the New York Society for Ethical Culture; 2 West 64th Street (at Central Park West), New York, NY 10023.

For a full list of presentations and presenter bios, please visit our page here: icpnyc.org/training/pcgs/transformations-2025

Schedule for Saturday, March 29, 2025 (click presentation title for more information)

Registration & Sign-in: 8:30 am – 9:00 am

Keynote Address: 9:00 am – 10:30 am

Keynote Address: "Allyship In Motion: Creating Impact Across the Margins" with Tiq Milan

Presentation Block A: 10:45 am – 12:00 pm

Finding Faye: The Pleasure of Discovery in a Cis/Trans Analytic Dyad
Presenter: Robert D. Campbell, MA, LCSW

The Paradoxical Use of the Dead Name: Ways to Help Parents of LGBTQI Youth Come Out
Presenter: James Vining, LCSW

Trans Phantoms across the Lifespan
Presenters: SJ Langer, LCSW, Louisa Gleichman ATR-BC, LCAT, Nicole Titus, and Candice Fernandez

Lunch (offsite): 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm

Presentation Block B: 1:15 pm – 2:30 pm

The Body as Home: Two Analysts’ Journeys “Coming Out” to their Patients
Presenter: Gabriel DeCicco, LCSW-R

“I Want Them to See Me as a Boy, Not a Man”: Ambivalence towards Maturation and the Treatment of Eating Disorders in Transmasculine Young Adults
Presenter: Anya Josephs, LMSW

Presentation Block C: 2:15 pm – 4:00 pm

"From the Outside Looking In: Transmasculine Narrative Identity Development, Experiences, and Larger Narratives on Social Media"
Presenter: Micah Roldan

The Dreamed Body: a phenomenological approach to the bodily experience of trans and gender-diverse people (TGD)
Presenter: Claudio Martinez, PhD

Houselessness Risk Among Trans and Gender Diverse Individuals Across the Lifespan: A Review of the Literature
Presenter: David Thomas

Presentation Block D:  4:15 pm – 5:30 pm

You Bring the Ingredients, I’ll do the Baking: A Reciprocal IVF Journey
Presenters: Ashley “Smash” L. Koenig, PsyD, & Emilie Clark, LCSW

Recognizing the Overlapping Experiences That Partners and Parents Navigate Throughout the Gender Transition of Their TGD Loved One
Presenter: D. M. Maynard, M.S., M.A.

Registration has closed. If you have any questions, please email Tobin Berliner, Program Manager, at pcgs@icpnyc.org