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Working with Religion, Spirituality, and LGBTQ+ People

CE Hours 2

About this course

This presentation introduces research on religion/spirituality among LGBTQ+ people to better help clinicians work with this population. It starts by reviewing theories about structural and minority stress that LGBTQ+ people experience to help attendees understand the socially disadvantaged position held by LGBTQ+ people. It then moves to review key models of how and why religiousness may promote health. In doing so, it highlights initially health-promoting pathways available to all people and then highlights how those pathways may be more complicated for LGBTQ+ people. Next, it examines how LGBTQ+ people have forged positive relationships with religion/spirituality, looking at what adaptations LGBTQ+ people have made to do so. Finally, it wraps up with a discussion of clinical cases of LGBTQ+ people with a variety of experiences with religion/spirituality.

Learning Objectives

  • Identify structural, interpersonal, and intrapersonal barriers that prevent LGBTQ+ people from accessing the health-promoting benefits of religion/spirituality.
  • Describe the four key dimensions of religiousness: believing, bonding, behaving, and belonging.
  • Articulate ways in which LGBTQ+ people may adapt their individual, interpersonal, or structural systems to allow them to engage healthily with religion/spirituality.

Course Instructor(s)

  • Tyler Lefevor, PhD

    Tyler Lefevor is an associate professor of psychology at Utah State University. His research focuses on understanding how LGBTQ+ people raised religious can navigate their religious and gender/sexual identities. As a queer man raised as part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he strives to help build bridges between religious and queer communities. Tyler also operates a private therapy practice in Utah and virtually through PsyPact.”

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References

  • Lefevor, G. T., & Skidmore, S. J. (2025). Navigating faith transitions: A four-year longitudinal examination of religious deidentification among LGBTQ+ Latter-day Saints. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 72(1), 15-29. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000765
  • Lefevor, G. T., Schow, R. L., Beckstead, A. L., Raynes, M., Young, N. T., & Rosik, C. H. (2021). Domains related to single/relationship status satisfaction among sexual minorities raised conservatively religious. Spirituality and Clinical Practice, 8(2), 112-131. https://doi.org/10.1037/scp0000237
  • Lefevor, G. T., Goldblum, P., Dowling, K. T., Goodman, J. A., Hoeflein, B., & Skidmore, S. J. (2022). First do no harm: Principles of care for clients with sexual identity confusion and/or conflict. Psychotherapy. 59(4), 487–497. https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000426
  • Lefevor, G. T., Davis, E. B., Paiz, J. Y, & Smack, A. C. P. (2021). The relationship between religiousness and health among sexual minorities: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 147(7), 647-666. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000339
  • Davis, E. B., Plante, T. G., Grey, M. J., Kim, C. L., Freeman-Coppadge, D., Lefevor, G. T., Paulez, J. A., Giwa, S., Lasser, J., Stratton, S. P., Deneke, E., & Glowiak, K. (2021). The role of civility and cultural humility in navigating controversial areas in psychology. Spirituality in Clinical Practice, 8(2), 79-97. https://doi.org/10.1037/scp0000236

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Content

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    2 parts
    • Slide Deck
    • Working with LGBTQ+ Meeting Video
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Working with Religion, Spirituality, and LGBTQ+ People
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    Self-Paced
  • Publication Date
    Feb 16th, 2026

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