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Dr. Ian Bonner has been a Licensed Clinical Psychologist since 2012 and obtained his doctorate from Adler University in Chicago. His clinical practice and past research focused mainly on affirming care for LGBTQ+ individuals and men/healthy masculinity. Dr. Bonner has been providing individual, group, and couples/relationship therapy since 2007. Along with direct clinical practice, Dr. Bonner regularly conducts workshops and trainings on various aspects of LGBTQ+ affirming care to mental health trainees at Northwestern University and through the Foster Training Consortium.

Dr. Bonner served as the CEO of IntraSpectrum Counseling from 2017-2020. He then founded Freelife Behavioral Health, an LGBTQ+-focused group practice offering the community psychotherapy, mental health assessments and testing, and psychiatric medication. Dr. Bonner serves as the clinical supervisor to four postdoctoral fellows and deeply enjoys clinical training and emerging psychologists' professional development.

Giselle Levin, PsyD (they/she/he), is a licensed psychologist in the state of California specializing in transgender healthcare and sex therapy. Giselle completed their doctorate at Pace University in New York, NY, and trained as a postdoctoral resident in LGBT mental health at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. They currently work as a gender specialist at the University of California San Francisco –Child and Adolescent Gender Center. Giselle is a member of UCSF’s Mind the Gap consortium of gender-affirming providers for youth and is in the process of completing their AASECT sex therapy and WPATH transgender healthcare certifications. 

Biography of W. Douglas Tynan, PhD, ABPP

W. Douglas Tynan PhD, ABPP, Professor of Pediatrics, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia. 

Doug Tynan is a Pediatric Health Psychologist who has developed diagnostic and intervention programs for children with ADHD and also organized a large integrated primary care program to serve low-income communities in Delaware through the Nemours Foundation. In addition, he has served on both state and federal advisory boards on health care reform, early childhood programs, and the committee for the evaluation of Head Start. He was a special mental health advisor for Head Start at the federal level from 2004-2007. He was a founding co-editor of Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology and received the Wright Ross Salk Award for distinguished Service from the Society for Pediatric Psychology of APA. Currently, he is an editor of Population Health Management and routinely reviews for pediatric and psychology journals, and he is the President of the Delaware Psychological Association. His work has focused on the coordination of health, mental health, education, and social services for children across systems.