Exploring Gender Identity - Opening up the Conversation

Guest Speakers:


Heidi Shapiro, M.S.W.

Heidi Shapiro is a social worker and accredited psychotherapist (OTSTCFQ and OPQ). Since 2006, Heidi has worked as a social worker at the CHU Sainte-Justine with parents and families of critically ill children. In 2017, she returned to McGill for a masters degree in social work, and as part of her studies, interned at MUSIC (McGill University Sexual Identity Centre), an outpatient psychotherapy clinic based at the Montreal General Hospital, providing services to individuals dealing with sexual orientation and gender identity issues. In her private practice, Heidi works primarily with adults and adolescents in the LGBTQ+ community. 

 

Marjorie Rabiau, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at McGill University. She is a clinical psychologist and a couple and family therapist (member of the OPQ and OTSTCFQ). After over 10 years of clinical practice, Dr. Rabiau is now a Core Faculty member for the M.Sc.(A) in Couple and Family Therapy. Her expertise lies in working with children, adolescents and their families using primarily a systemic lens. Her research interests include the development of identity within the context of family and community. Her current domains of study are the importance of working with the family when working with refugee youth as well as when working with gender creative youth. She received the H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2020 and she recently co-authored two chapters in the book Jeunes trans et non binaires: De l'accompagnement à l'affirmation.