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Laura Maakestad Sullivan's avatar

Hi Wendi, I appreciate all your clear and correct information on LGBTQ+ young people. Though I have been retired as a counselor for two years, it is a topic close to my heart because I had a transgender boy of 12 1/2 years old, for PTSD and mental health issues. I used my specialities in art therapy as well as in counseling to assist he and his mother to get the resources they both needed. They had been both traumatized and deeply affected by a very non supportive family member. I worked very slowly with each of them because of their PTSD, and got very good outside mental health resources for both the LGBTQ+boy and his mother, after I retired in July of 2022. And yes, suicidal risks are high for LGBTQ+ people.

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