Spring 2025 Institute
Friday and Saturday, March 28-29, 2025 8:00AM - 5:00PM
Presenter: Joshua DeSilva, Psy.D., CGP, AGPA-F
Presentation Title: Queering Our Groups: Moving Beyond Inclusion
12.5 CEUs
Location: Aloft New Orleans Downtown
225 Baronne St, New Orleans, LA 70112
About the Institute
This two day institute will comprehensively cover working with LGBTQ+ clients in a group psychotherapy setting. Intake procedures, affirming language, liberation psychology principles, and avoiding microaggressions will be covered. The workshop features didactic segments, demonstration groups, small groups, and experiential practice in dyads. Attendance at this workshop will also help group leaders become more culturally competent in working with gender and sexuality in psychotherapy more generally.
Joshua DeSilva, Psy.D., CGP, AGPA-F
Joshua DeSilva, PsyD, CGP (they/them) is a queer, Latinx licensed psychologist and certified group psychotherapist. Dr.DeSilva is an assistant professor of clinical psychology at George Washington University and enjoys teaching the Group Psychotherapy, Diversity I, and Community Intervention courses. In private practice, Dr. DeSilva runs LGBTQ+ and BIPOC groups and specializes in intersectionality, queer-affirming care, and liberation psychology. They are also proud to supervise low fee queer and BIPOC process groups that are open to the DC community in the GWU Center Clinic.
Service to the profession includes serving as President-Elect of the Mid Atlantic Group Psychotherapy Society (MAGPS), co-chair of the Racial and Ethnic Diversity Special Interest Group (RED SIG) with the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA), and service on the board of directors of the International Board for Certification of Group Psychotherapists (IBCGP). Dr. DeSilva's group work has been featured in a demonstration video called "Basics of Group Therapy" for the American Psychological Association and a DEI training video for AGPA.
