Out Loud Pride Summit

Eating Recovery Center and Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Center are excited to announce our fifth annual Out Loud Pride Summit happening June 12th, 2025. Out Loud Pride Summit is a virtual event focused on exploring LGBTQ+ identity and mental health. Our programming includes continuing education opportunities for professionals and shared lived experience for all. Each event is designed to educate, elevate and advocate for the voices of the LGBTQ+ community. 

Agenda

Unspoken Truths: Sexualty, Shame, and Substance Use in LGBTQ+ Communities

9:00am - 10:30am with Leah Young, LCPC and Eric Dorsa
1.5 CE Credits offered

For many LGBTQ+ individuals, sexuality is entangled with shame and secrecy—roots that can deepen vulnerability to substance use. This course examines the complex intersections of sexuality, shame, and substance use disorders (SUD), offering insight into how stigma, trauma, and marginalization impact queer and trans communities. Special attention will be given to the role of sex-drug linkages—such as chemsex and party-and-play culture—and how these dynamics intersect with identity, connection, and harm. Clinicians will explore trauma-informed, sex-positive approaches that affirm sexual identity while addressing underlying shame and internalized bias.

Pride Was a Riot LGBTQ+ History - Spotlight Session: PRISM

10:30am - 11:00am with April Hayden, MSW, LICSW
0 CE Credits offered

Beyond the Rainbow: Building an Intersectional Framework for Affirming Care

11:00am - 12:30pm with Kyle Woodson, MA, LPC
1.5 CE Credits offered

LGBTQ+ individuals do not experience their identities in isolation. Race, class, ability, religion, size, and other identities intersect to shape access to care and experiences within treatment settings. This course invites mental health and medical professionals to explore how intersectionality influences barriers to care for LGBTQ+ individuals and how bias—both implicit and structural—can impact treatment outcomes. Attendees will gain tools to examine their own practices and implement more inclusive, affirming, and justice-informed care across disciplines.

From Dysphoria to Euphoria: Reimagining Gender-Affirming Care in Eating Disorder Treatment

1:00pm - 3:00pm with Lindsey Reed, LCSW and Alexandria (Ally) Davis, LPC-A
2.0 CE Credits offered

Traditional treatment models often focus on gender dysphoria as a clinical issue to be managed—but what if we reframed care around cultivating gender euphoria? This course explores how eating disorders are inherently gendered, particularly in their impact on body image, self-worth, and identity in trans and gender-expansive clients. Through the lens of gender-affirming care, participants will learn how to integrate creative modalities like art therapy and intentional group dynamics to foster connection, embodiment, and joy. A companion panel of lived experience advocates will share stories of recovery and gender euphoria, grounding the theory in real-world insight.

Questions about this event? Please email Eric Dorsa at eric.dorsa@ercpathlight.com.