I was quoted again on CNN online about LGBT youth. It’s a good and short piece about how young people identify in terms of gender and sexuality.

You can view the article here.

I was quoted in Ian Kerner’s health column on CNN. Do men want playful and connected sex? Check it out here.

Jean’s article “Between Pink and Blue: A Multi-Dimensional Family Approach to Gender Nonconforming Children and their Families” is featured in Wiley Publication’s online collection of research in key family studies journals listing!

Find it here

I participated in short conversations on Gender Variance for the Ackerman Institute for the Family. You can find these clips on Ackerman’s Youtube channel at the links below.

Gender Variance

Accepting Gender Variance

Children & Gender Variance

Permission for Gender Variance

Onset of Gender Variance

Join us for a training day in Boston.

Masculinity and femininity are getting deconstructed and recreated outside of the traditional gender binary. As sexualities are declared more openly, new relationships, gay, bisexual, fluid or mixed, get formed by our clients, by our friends, by our family members, and by ourselves. This workshop offers to expand your vision of gender and sexuality and welcome new families in your office and your organization!

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I was pleased to be asked to participate in the following article that appeared in the May 27th issues of New York Magazine. You can access it here

I was delighted to participate in this article that appeared in the August 8th edition of the New York Times Magazine. You can check it out here.

Parenting is tricky enough, but what if your six-year-old son asks you if he could dress up as Tinkerbell in the school play? Or if your daughter wonders if she could grow up to be a man?

I offered advice for Hans Villarica’s article for The Atlantic to parents raising children that do not conform to gender norms.

See the article here

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

Check out the new National Meth Center Stories:

National Meth Center

• 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!