GENDER EXPRESSION CARE WORKSHOPS

You don’t need to do this alone.

Our 8-week online workshop helps trans and gender-diverse adults build skills like gender affirming voice, cosmetics, and wardrobe styling, so that you can explore and deepen your connection to your identity, presentation, and self-expression.

Each 2h session combines practical instruction with small-group discussions led by licensed gender-specialized therapists, to help you integrate these new skills into your daily life and relationships. And most importantly, it’s a chance to explore new skills & expression in a safe space with peers.

Monica Prata is the Gender Expression Specialist at Kaiser Permanente, founder of the Gender Expression Care framework, and co-author of a landmark paper published in NEJM Catalyst.

What happens in Gender Expression Care workshops?

In GEC, you get to define your unique vision for where you want to be.

We provide a safe space to address your practical needs during gender transition, with the help of professionally trained experts. This includes:

  • Clear frameworks to help you map & express your complex, unique identity

  • Gender-congruent wardrobe & hair styling

  • Feminizing, masculinizing, & neutralizing cosmetics and skincare

  • Gender-expressive vocal coaching, led by a licensed Speech Language Pathologist

  • Gender-affirming movement and exercise

  • Dedicated time to ask medical questions to TGNB-affirming doctors

  • Asserting pronouns and coming out

  • Confidence coaching

  • Transition timeline planning

Curious? Let’s get in touch!

Our next workshop begins in June, 2026! Click below to sign up, get more details, or request a free call from Monica to explore how our Gender Expression Care workshop can help you grow.

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Why join a Gender Expression Care workshop?

Because community is powerful & transformational.

Small group settings offers a unique opportunity to try on new modes of expression in a “test kitchen” environment, to share support and feedback, and build vital, sustaining relationships with yourself and others.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Not at all. We believe that gender constructs are limited and limiting. GEC immersives and workshops serve as a test kitchen for exploring an expansive range of expressions within your chosen identity. We help you navigate to your unique persona and cultivate an external expression that feels authentic to you.

  • The workshops are all held online, and we meet for two hours a week for eight weeks.

  • For KP NorCal members, GEC workshops and 1:1 sessions are available for adults and teens & their parents/legal guardians. For a referral, speak with your healthcare provider. For more about Kaiser’s coverage, check out Groups at KP.

  • Please talk to your insurance company to see if they cover GEC, and we can provide the standard superbill needed for reimbursement. If you are a Kaiser Permanente member, you may be eligible to join with or without a co-pay. For more information, click below.

    Groups at KP

  • Please talk to your insurance company to see if they cover GEC. Our therapists will provide the standard billing documentation you need for reimbursement.

    For our upcoming workshop, we’re offering a discounted rate of $1,000 for the entire 8-week series. (Our standard rate is $1,600, or $200 per session.)

    If you are a Kaiser Permanente member, you may be eligible to join with or without a co-pay. For more about Kaiser’s coverage, check out Groups at KP.

  • Monica offers consultation and education to healthcare systems, such as insurance companies and private clinics.

    She also offers partnerships for healthcare providers to enroll patients into existing group programs.

    To discuss, please contact Monica directly at:

    info@genderexpressioncare.com

  • Each workshop session combines practical skills with therapist-led, small group discussion to help each person apply that knowledge in a way that feels comfortable and familiar to them. Our skills topics include:

    • Gender-congruent wardrobe & hair styling,

    • Feminizing, masculinizing, & neutralizing cosmetics and skincare

    • Gender-expressive vocal coaching (led by a licensed Speech Language Pathologist)

    • …and more!