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Clinical Initiatives

Gender Clinic

The Gender Clinic is designed to support the mental health of gender-diverse adults who are seeking evaluation for gender-affirming treatments. We can prepare a letter of readiness for surgery, and support your mental health before, during and after your gender-affirming care.

The Gender Clinic is supervised by a board-certified psychiatrist and led by psychiatry residents and psychology trainees. Our team works closely with the multidisciplinary , the and , we aim to foster innovative, community-engaged research that progresses the field of mental health for LGBTQ2+ people.

Meet the Team

  

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Dr. Kunstman (she/her/hers) completed medical school and psychiatry residency at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. She specializes in the mental health care of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and two-spirited (LGBTQ2+) individuals. Her particular emphasis is promoting equitable and affirming care for gender-diverse individuals and increasing medical knowledge around LGBTQ2+ mental health care, both through scholarly work and medical education initiatives in medical education.

Dr. Leiszle Lapping-Carr (she/her/hers) received her doctorate in clinical psychology from University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She completed two postdoctoral fellowships at Northwestern University, one in sexual and relationship health, and one in women’s mental health and perinatal psychology. Dr. Lapping-Carr is an assistant professor in the Northwestern University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She specializes in research and clinical work with people from sexual and gender minority groups who are experiencing distress related to reproductive events, sexual health and relationship health. She also is active in providing graduate-level education to psychology and psychiatry trainees on these topics.