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• What Is My Role?: Understanding Ethics in LGBTQ+ Mental Health Care In 2026

  • When
    13 Nov 2026
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    In Person: United Way, 50 Waugh Dr., Houston, TX 77007

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  What Is My Role?: Understanding Ethics in LGBTQ+ Mental Health Care In 2026

  Presented by

  Carmen Simon, LMFT

  WHEN
  Friday, November 13, 2026

  9:00 AM - 12:00 AM

  WHERE

  United Way

  50 Waugh Drive

  Houston, TX 77007

  
  

  
  

  Description:

  Mental healthcare for LGBTQ+ clients has been an evolving part of our field, from the days of medically modeled treatment to a more community led standard of care. Changes in terminology over time, and increased legislative scrutiny, present challenges for all clinicians wanting to provide quality, and dignified, services. In this presentation, we will be exploring some of the history of LGBTQ+ counseling, while also receiving current information on complex issues such as navigating advocacy in an rapidly changing socio-political climate.

  
  

  About Our Presenter:

  Carmen is a former HAMFT Board Member (Director of Ethics and Diversity), and a "transplant" from the San Francisco Bay Area to Houston in 2021. She completed supervision at the Houston Galveston Institute, and has served diverse communities since 2007, when she began her career in the non-profit mental health world. Currently, Carmen owns and runs her own practice in Central Houston.

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