Your Trans Child Can Thrive
You are not alone. We support you to support them.
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What Really Matters When Your Child is Trans
Bite sized videos emailed to you over 5 days.
Are you...
- Grappling with your child (kid, teen or adult) being potentially transgender?
- Afraid of how the world will treat them?
- Worried they might make big choices before they're sure or ready?
- Want to support them fully and also feeling a sense of grief or loss?
- Overwhelmed by how to find them good support, or how you are going to talk to other people about this?
- Find yourself thinking, "but there were no signs." and worried about what that means.
- Doing your best, feeling isolated and confused at times.
You are not alone.
You want your child to be safe and happy in the world. To be comfortable in their own skin. To come to you and connect with you so that you can guide and support them.
The thing is... The truth is very hopeful. You can absolutely support your transgender or non-binary child to thrive.

Research shows that parental support and connection is by far the biggest predictor of wellbeing and happiness for trans and gender diverse people.
Not only that...
Even with all the additional challenges that trans people face, with strong parental support, trans and gender diverse people have been shown to have similar mental health outcomes as the general population.
Your strong support is incredibly powerful. For them, you are it.
Join the Trans Wellbeing Parent Program
What's Included

7 weeks of expert-led video training
Our popular 'parent your trans child to thrive' course.
- Start immediately upon enrolment
- Self-paced
- Organised into easy bite-sized videos
- On mobile app or web.
Live weekly group discussions
- 7 weekly group calls
- Discuss each training module and ask questions
- Personalised guidance from specialist mental health professionals
- Connection and community
- Your personal cheerleading team
3 months free community access
- A private trusted community of other Program participants and alumni
- A compassionate and knowledgeable brains trust of parents
- Regular guest and expert speakers
- Monthly live support group
- Personal, same day responses to all your questions
- Library of resources, recommendations, and inspiration.
Ongoing Support Available
Choose to remain a community member and get ongoing access to:
- Regular support online support groups
- Regular expert guest speakers
- Continued access to the video training and resources
- Ongoing professional guidance with same day responses to questions.
Course Outline
Module 1: What Really Matters When Your Child is Trans
- Common Parental Emotions and Thoughts: What parents say about their experience of parenting a trans child (you are not alone)
- Why it's so Hard: and cultivating self-compassion
- Risk and Resilience Factors: The pivotal #1 factor affecting trans mental health
- The Parental Support Paradox: How trying to protect your child might paradoxically be the hardest thing they face
- The Positive Support Cycle: Getting There Faster

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Module 2: Small Changes, Big Effects
- How do they know they are trans?
- The formation of gender identity
- When and why language matters
- Receiving and responding to new information from your child
- Four sentences that create trust and connection, even if you’re not ready to ‘get on board’.
- The Task of Telling People: The Who, When, What, and How of disclosure.
Module 3: Strengthening Emotional Connection
- Parenting when we’re afraid
- The essentials guide to emotion theory
- Emotion Coaching for daily and deepening connection
- How to repair after conflict and hurt
- When your child doesn’t talk to you, and what you can do about it
Module 4: De-Pathologising Gender Diversity
- How binary thinking has eclipsed the natural diversity within all living things.
- The social significance of bodies
- Embracing a broader perspective on gender roles through time and across cultures
- Unwiring ourselves from the myths of femininity and masculinity.
- Helpful and practical ways to talk about bodies with your child
Module 5: De-Personalising Dysphoria
- Differentiating diagnosis from feeling
- How dysphoria disguises itself
- Coping with dysphoria
- Does dysphoria make you trans?
- Understand the cause of dysphoria: a minority stress lens
- Finding Meaningful Relief: Mitigating dysphoria.
- The many ways to manage dysphoria, when relief is not yet possible.
Module 6: Affirming Change
- Traditions of Transition: The legacy of concealment
- The real purpose of transition
- Common parent and child feelings during transition
- Urgency, certainty and doubt
- Navigating 'testimonial injustice' in the medical system
Module 7: Navigating & Building Community
- Responding to your child's experiences of transphobia
- Three essential types of community, and how to build them.
- Troubleshooting when community is hard to access
- The courageous conversations template
- Use healthy anger to guide you
Get Started

1.
Join the Community
Get immediate access to the course and resources through our Parent Community so that you can start getting support right away.

2.
Meet your cohort
When your cohort begins, meet and connect with a small group of families who will together digest and discuss the video course each week for 7 weeks.

3.
Get ongoing personal guidance
Get expert and peer guidance any day of the week in the Community. Join the ongoing support group and guest speaker events monthly. Never feel alone with this again.
Next Cohort Begins June
Dates: TBA
Time: Mondays at 7.30-9pm (Melbourne, Australia Tiime)
Location: Online
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All prices are in Australian dollars
Who We Are
We are Ari Heart (they/them) and Jes Anderberg (she/her).
We are both therapists and educators, working in the fields of trans mental health, advocacy and education. Together we have thousands of hours of clinical experience working with gender diverse people and their families.
Throughout our work, we have continuously seen the urgent need for parents to receive high-quality and compassionate information and support when their child is gender diverse.
We have collated years of professional, community, and personal expertise and research into this 7 week program, so that parents can escalate their learning and improve their life and relationship with their child.
"I could not imagine better facilitators for this program than Ari and Jes, whose immense kindness, generosity, wisdom and relevant personal and clinical experience enliven and enrich the course content and discussions."
- Sally & Justin, parents of 5 year old.
“Ari is a caring and thoughtful practitioner who I have known for many years, they’re someone I trust and highly respect. I’m so happy that they are supporting parents to help our young people thrive.”
- Starlady, Zoe Belle Gender Collective

