Events
Out, Proud, and Still on Shift.
Can You Truly Be Yourself at Work?
Being a healthcare provider is already demanding. For LGBTQ+ professionals, it often comes with an added layer of stress: navigating identity in environments that aren’t always affirming.
Out, Proud, and Still on Shift is a trauma-informed, community-rooted workshop for LGBTQ+ healthcare providers who are carrying the weight of burnout, judgment, and invisibility, all while showing up for others every day.
This in-person event isn’t group therapy. It’s a space for connection, validation, and nervous system support among peers who just get it. Together, we’ll explore what it means to be fully yourself at work, share real stories, and practice practical tools you can bring into your next shift (or your next breath).
In this 2-hour workshop, you’ll experience:
Gentle nervous system education + stress relief tools
Space to reflect, share, and connect in community
Strategies for navigating identity-based stress at work
A non-clinical, non-judgmental space designed by and for LGBTQ+ providers
Date: July 19, 2025, Saturday
Location: Yorkdale
Time: 10:30am - 12:30pm
Fee: $15 CAD
Register: https://forms.gle/h1Ykp3enwJn64oU46
Limited to 15 participants
Facilitated by:
Gelica Tatarenko (she/her)
Christopher Edd Galeno (he/him)
We created this event because too many of us have been quietly burning out in systems that ask for everything and offer little in return. You deserve space to be seen, to breathe, and to be reminded: you’re not alone in this.
Instagram Live with Layla Dabir of @mumellomums
Supporting Our Frontline Mamas
In partnership with Mumello, Gelica Tatarenko, Registered Psychotherapist and Registered Nurse, hosted a live discussion on the unique perinatal challenges faced by healthcare providers and first responders.
Becoming a parent is one of life’s biggest transitions, but for those who are used to being the helpers, it can also feel deeply complicated. Drawing from both her professional background and personal experience as a first-time mom during COVID, Gelica explored:
The invisible weight of the helper role and how it intensifies the perinatal journey.
Common challenges during pregnancy and maternity leave for healthcare providers, including identity shifts, guilt, hypervigilance, and relationship changes.
How birth trauma and the mental load of motherhood can leave helpers isolated or overwhelmed.
The importance of tailored, trauma-informed support for providers who often struggle to ask for help.
Gelica also shared how her therapy practice helps bridge this gap, offering both individual therapy to process trauma and anxiety, and couples therapy to strengthen relationships during the perinatal transition.
This IG Live was part of Mumello’s mission to nurture the nurturers by bringing expert-led discussions to their community, with space for reflection, hope, and connection. You can catch the replay on both of Gelica and Layla’s instagram pages: @growthpsychotherapy and @mumellomums.
