ABSTRACT
Emerging sexuality, orientation and gender experience form a significant aspect of the adolescent’s evolving identity. The author appreciates the importance of inviting these dimensions of experience into dialogue and offers a methodology for supporting choiceful sexual expression and taking ownership of one’s body and sexuality as well as cultivating the adolescent’s movement towards interpersonal sexual integrity. Case vignettes reinforce and extend discussion on how to support adolescents who are exploring and integrating sexual orientation into their overall identity. In addition, therapeutic sensibility for the adolescent who identifies as transgendered is explored. Strategies to intervene with and support parents of adolescents are also offered to the reader.
