Creating a welcoming environment and providing a healing presence are important contours in offering clinical therapy to members of the LGBTQ+ community. This program will explore various ways to engage LGBTQ+ clients through recognizing the marginalization and trauma that have accompanied the reality of their sexual and gender identities. An informational component, meaning-making exercises, and a ritual will be included in this program and will be facilitated within the landscape of Nature.  We will be starting in the group room and then moving to Goucher College for an experiential activity. 

Gordon Creamer, creator of the Mission Bridge, currently serves as Program Director at Well For The

Journey, a spiritual wellness center in Lutherville, MD. He has also been involved in healthcare

programming and operations since 2001 at various Assisted Living, Skilled Nursing, and Hospice

communities. He earned an MA in Spiritual & Pastoral Care from Loyola University and an MA…