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Expertise:
- Bisexual men and women
- Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender couples and families
- Transgender adults transitioning
- Transgender youth and transitioning issues
- “Coming out” issues across the lifespan
Additional Information:
Dr. Beth Firestein is a licensed psychologist in private practice with Inner Source Psychotherapy in Loveland, Colorado. She is also a senior consultant with Gender Solutions, a consulting firm assisting schools and employers with transgendered individuals who are transitioning in their organization. Beth Firestein, Ph.D. has 21 years of experience in counseling individuals, couples, partners, and families. She provides individual, couple, and group counseling to adults, adolescents and older individuals of all sexual orientations and gender identities. Dr. Firestein looks at the needs of the "whole person" within the context of their individual life, helping each person to achieve wellness and the realization of their personal goals and aspirations. People often seek psychotherapy when they are facing a life transition (divorce, career change), grieving a significant loss, or trying to recover from a trauma. Others seek counseling to overcome depression, improve self-esteem, or to build, sustain, and heal important relationships. Sexual orientation and gender identity counseling are among Dr. Firestein's specializations. She is also trained in providing EMDR therapy for overcoming the effects of trauma and victimization. Dr. Firestein received her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. She completed her internship at the Counseling Center at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, Colorado. She was a Staff Psychologist and director of the Office of Women’s Services at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale for ten years before going into full-time private practice in Northern Colorado. She has always felt an affinity for marginalized and underserved populations. Twenty-five years ago she recognized that there was a gap in the professional literature pertaining to individuals who feel able to be romantically and sexually involved with people of more than one gender. Much of her career has been devoted to filling the gaps in the professional literature dealing with bisexuals and other sexual and gender minority individuals and their loved ones.
Selected Publications and Memberships: Editor: Becoming Visible: Counseling Bisexuals across the Lifespan
(Columbia University Press, 2007)
Bisexuality: The psychology and Politics of an Invisible Minority
(Sage, 1996)
APA Division 44 Executive Committee, 3rd year Member-at-Large
Co-Chair with Ron Fox, Committee on Bisexual Issues (APA Division 44)
Member, Division 44 Committee on Aging
Member, Division 44 Committee on Youth and Families
Member, Association for Women in Psychology
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