We Had a Great Time at our
2021 Summer Camps!
Thanks to all of the families who participated in our 2021 summer camps! Coming out of this isolating year, it was particularly exciting to be together - making new friends, building important social-emotional skills, and sharing summer camp fun!
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Stand Up! Speak Out!® Summer Camp
We loved our two sessions in Descanso Gardens' beautiful Harvest Gardens - their community education space with planting beds, shady spots to gather and a grove of fruit trees! Our campers built confidence, camaraderie, and communication skills while enjoying summer camp games and activities.
Highlights included a scavenger hunt through the fruit trees, making glitter jars and scented bath salts on our self-care day, performing skits, planting "resilience gardens," exploring Descanso Gardens' trails and waterfalls, and more!
Email PHobey@IFGD.care to be the first to learn about next year's Stand Up! Speak Out!® Summer Camp.
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Director of Community Education and Outreach
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Creative Connections Camp
Our two weeks of Creative Connections Camp were a blast! We made tons of art, played mindfulness games, and talked about the many ways we connect with others. But the most fun was connecting with each other! Whether we were making bath bombs, creating group collages or playing group games, everyone was able to come together while sharing ideas.
Campers walked away with a better understanding of how they connect with themselves, their communities, social media and the world. Everyone walked away with arms full of art projects reflecting these themes.
As a facilitator, the best part for me was watching the campers come together in the spirit of creativity, expression and best of all - fun!
Email LBrooks@IFGD.care to be the first to learn about next year's Creative Connections Camp.
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Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT 101031)
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Gender Camps: épanouie & Unicorn Day Camp
Gender Camps had two fun and connecting programs this year: épanouie and Unicorn Day Camp! Both camps were held in Descanso Gardens - who were so generous to open their doors to us this year!
At épanouie, campers enjoyed activities focused on community building, friendship skills, and transgender identity pride development in Descanso Gardens' Boddy House. The campers shared their gender journeys with one another while having a blast through water balloon games, hide and seek, decorating cake pops, and taking a beautiful walk through the Japanese Gardens.
Unicorn Day Campers had a great time connecting with other transgender and gender nonbinary youth in Descanso's Harvest Gardens. The campers planted marigolds and nurtured them throughout the week, painted windchimes, created pride pots to take their plants home, and made friendship bracelets to give their new camp friends.
Both camps had an adventurous scavenger hunt to reclaim their beloved mascot, Popcorn, the gender fluid unicorn, by following all the clues and collecting all the gender pride facts! Thankfully, we found Popcorn - it was a close call. 😊 We ended both camps with open houses to share campers' experiences and to introduce campers' new friends to their families.
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Registered Psychological Assistant (PSB94025827)
Supervised by Vicki Chiang, Psy.D., (PSY21136)
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Licensed Clinical Psychologist (PSY 30377)
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Register Now:
We're excited to announce that we're hosting another
professional training with Susan Landon, LMFT from L.A. Gender Center!
What: This 8-week professional training (16 hours) is designed to equip you in your clinical and case management work with transgender and nonbinary youth and families.
When: Mondays, September 20 – November 15, 2021
October 11 canceled for Indigenous People’s Day
Register: Early bird registration is now open! Click here to learn more and register!
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We're Hiring!
We have two new exciting opportunities to join our Administrative Team!
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Office Manager - Provide leadership for a positive and productive work environment in our mission-driven, community-oriented mental health practice. Our Office Manager helps create a warm, supportive, fun organizational culture, oversees a variety of essential infrastructure projects for efficient organizational functioning, contributes to our outreach and communications efforts, helps plan dynamic team-building events and more!
Full-time Positions for Licensed Therapists:
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We recently launched a dynamic new center specifically for adults - Flourish Therapy + Wellness Center! Flourish is a division of the Institute for Girls' Development, a Psychological Corporation. It's located in our beautiful space in Old Pasadena, and services include therapy, learning and connection opportunities, and wellness programs for adults of all ages. Currently, most of our Flourish services are offered online. Check out the Flourish website! |
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Therapy & Assessment Services
Interested in family therapy?
See our current therapy groups by age:
To learn more, call us at 626-585-8075 ext. 108 or email Intake@IFGD.care
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Empowering for all stages of life.
95 N. Marengo Ave. Suite 100
Pasadena, CA 91101
626-585-8075 ext. 108
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PLEASE NOTE: Nothing in what you find here should be construed as medical advice pertinent to any individual. As is true with all written materials, you must be the judge of what appears valid and useful for yourself. Please take up any questions you might have regarding the content of this with your psychotherapist or physician.
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