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Lifestyle Redesign® for Gender Affirmation

For many trans and gender non-conforming individuals, accessing the activities that affirm their gender and help them feel like themselves can be challenging. With the added barriers to engaging in gender-affirming activities, individuals may feel isolated, dysphoric, and unsafe, all of which may have an impact on their mental and emotional well-being.

Occupational therapists support clients in identifying the variable and unique strategies that will help to address gender dysphoria, optimize participation in gender-affirming routines, and maximize safety and health promotion. Through a holistic, collaborative approach, our OTs provide an individualized plan that allow clients to self-reflect, problem-solve, and integrate new skills and strategies into their daily routines, in order to empower them to affirm their gender in a safe and meaningful way.

We can help you:

• Build skills for self-advocacy and make decisions about disclosure
• Manage stress, anxiety, dysphoria, or other mental health concerns
• Address social, dating, or intimacy anxiety
• Develop safe, meaningful routines around grooming, hygiene, and dressing
• Safely engage in gender-affirming activities (e.g., tucking, binding, and/or use of prosthetics) and thus prevent certain infections or injury
• Integrate post-surgical precautions, if you have chosen to undergo gender-confirming surgery
• Learn strategies to manage chronic conditions
• Create health-promoting routines to support restorative sleep, healthy eating, and physical activity

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USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
1540 Alcazar Street, CHP 133, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9003

ACOTE accreditation | NBCOT certification

The USC entry-level master’s degree program (cost of attendance) is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education® (ACOTE®) of the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA). The USC entry-level doctorate in occupational therapy (OTD) degree program (cost of attendance) has applied for accreditation and has been granted Preaccreditation Status by ACOTE®. View our program’s ACOTE® standards public data. ACOTE® c/o the American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc.®, 7501 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 510E, Bethesda, MD 20814, (301) 652-AOTA, www.acoteonline.org. The program must complete an on-site evaluation and be granted Accreditation Status before its graduates will be eligible to sit for the national certification examination for the occupational therapist administered by the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy, Inc.® (NBCOT®).

Professional program graduates are eligible to apply for certification by National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy, Inc.® (NBCOT®), nbcot.org. Program results from the NBCOT® can be found online at www.nbcot.org/Educators-Folder/SchoolPerformance.