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Your TGI clients need
something you can't provide.
Not because your team isn't good. Because standard clinical containers weren't built to hold the specific weight of trans experience. That gap is where this work lives.
Clinical staff are rarely equipped to hold trans-specific identity work alongside addiction or mental health treatment. The result is disengagement, dropout, and relapse — not because clients aren't trying, but because the container wasn't built for them.
This service closes that gap without displacing your team. It's the relational, embodiment-focused, trans-led layer that complements what you already do.
Six named entry points your team can refer against
Each intensive is a named, referrable container. You don't need to figure out exactly what a client needs — you describe where they are, and together we match the right entry point. The work takes it from there.
Intensives can be used as a standalone session, as an entry point into ongoing 1:1 coaching, or as structured step-down support post-discharge.
For clients with somatic dysregulation, dissociation, or dysphoria affecting their ability to be present in clinical sessions. Nervous system regulation and gentle re-entry into embodied presence.
System
For clients struggling with identity coherence or self-narrative — especially those who have been over-processed by systems, whose story has been told by others too many times. Builds a self-authored narrative alongside clinical work.
For clients discharging from treatment or in step-down where the shape of daily life has collapsed. Routine-building as stabilization. Reduces chaos in the highest-risk post-discharge window by building a daily structure that holds identity and recovery simultaneously.
A session your clinical team almost certainly cannot offer. For clients with presentation-related distress or dysphoria affecting daily function. Getting dressed treated as an act of self-authorship — specific to TGI experience, only possible from lived experience.
Function
For clients with high verbal defenses or significant trauma affecting clinical engagement. Non-verbal expression as a route in — for clients who have learned to perform compliance in clinical settings and need a different container to access what's actually present.
+ Identity
For clients carrying the chronic cost of passing pressure or performance exhaustion. Working at the level of what the client knows about themselves before and beneath the need to pass or be accepted. The theoretical foundation all other intensives rest on.
Power
Costs covered directly by the organization as a supplemental service. Structured per client or as a standing partnership arrangement — whichever makes more sense for your program and client volume.
Clients pay directly, or organizations incorporate these services into overall program pricing as a specialist add-on — similar to how you might structure other supplemental supports. Flexible arrangements welcomed.
Trans-competent isn't a workshop. It's architecture.
Most TGI-competency efforts layer training onto systems that weren't built with trans people in mind. TIT-EM goes deeper — policy, procedure, environment, and staff practice — and leads to formal organizational certification.
Organizations that begin Phase 1 now are building toward TIT-EM certification from the start — not starting over when the pathway launches in 2027.
All Phase 1 work earns formal documentation that counts toward TIT-EM organizational certification when the pathway launches. Start now, build toward it from the beginning.
Refer a client
Tell us where your client is. We'll match the right entry point, discuss funding structures, and make the referral as easy as possible for your team.
Make a referral →Explore training & certification
Phase 1 offerings are available now. Let's talk about what trans-competent looks like structurally for your organization — and start building toward it.
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