Transactivism as Therapy: A Client Self-Empowerment Model Linking Personal and Social Agency

SUMMARY

The author, a trans-identified transactivist and psychotherapist, outlines a number of ways in which elements of advocacy and activism can be added to the therapeutic process as appropriate and potentially effective interventions. A case study illustrates how these interventions optimize client agency, efficacy, resilience, and quality of life.

KEYWORDS:

• Activism
• Adlerian psychology
• advocacy
• community
• mental health
• psychotherapy
• self-disclosure
• transactivism
• transgender
• transphobia
• transsexual
• two-spirit