Clinical Conversation

Guest: Roshni Chabra   
On-Demand: Available on demand. This conversation was recorded on 15 October, 2025.

When political winds shift and systemic threats resurface, LGBTQ+ communities feel the impact first and deepest. In today’s political and social landscape, LGBTQ+ communities are facing renewed uncertainty, fear, and systemic adversity.
As therapists, how do we hold space for both the real dangers they face and their inherent resilience? How do we help them thrive, not just survive?
Join us for an open, practical Clinical Conversation with Roshni Chabra, LMFT, an intersectional feminist therapist, educator, and fierce advocate for healing. This is not a dry webinar or check-the-box training. It’s a safe, truthful space to explore how clinicians can stand with LGBTQ+ and immigrant clients, fostering resilience, creative expression, and true community connection in difficult times.

What We'll Explore:

• How today’s political climate impacts LGBTQ+ clients and their sense of safety
• The role of community, resistance, and joy in trauma recovery
• Therapist presence: how to offer support and “stay in the fight” without burnout
• Practical strategies for helping clients access sources of meaning, creativity, and connection, even in the face of systemic adversity
• The importance of activism, advocacy, and celebrating small victories
• Cultivating hope -how therapists can nurture resilience while honoring real pain

 Roshni Chabra is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California and a dedicated Intersectional Feminist Therapist. She serves as the Director of Training at Roots Training Group (formerly StartAgain Associates), where she leads trauma-focused clinical initiatives rooted in mindfulness practices and EMDR therapy, and she is the Founder and President of Lavender Healing Collective, Inc., a group practice dedicated to providing culturally responsive, affirming mental health care to BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities. Ms. Chabra is the editor of Queering EMDR Therapy, an anthology bringing together 26 contributors sharing voices of lived and learned experience. She holds dual bachelor's degrees in Women's Studies and Psychology and a master's in Feminist Clinical Psychology, and is a Certified EMDR Therapist, EMDRIA-Approved Consultant, and EMDR Trainer with over 20 years of experience in the mental health field. Throughout her career she has worked extensively with LGBTQIA+ youth and adults, couples, families, foster and probation-involved youth, individuals with substance use disorders, survivors of complex trauma, and neurodivergent clients, including five years in the rape crisis movement and eight years supporting families in Wraparound Services.