Cit Carney is a social worker, qualified psychotherapist, and strategic advisor working in LGBTQIA+ health and wellbeing in Australia. Their career has spanned sexual health, mental health, suicide aftercare, domestic and family violence, and community services, including a role as the state’s only LGBTQIA+ suicide aftercare service coordinator, and as national LGBTQIA+ coordinator at the Salvation Army.
Cit joins Ricki Spencer for a wide-ranging and deeply considered conversation covering spirituality and faith in queer lives, the personal and political impact of marriage equality, sexual and domestic violence in LGBTQIA+ relationships and why it often goes unrecognised, the compound trauma faced by trans and non-binary people, therapeutic approaches that move beyond binary frameworks, and what holistic care for older LGBTQIA+ people needs to look like, particularly for those who lived through the HIV and AIDS crisis and the criminalisation of homosexuality.
Cit also speaks about their own non-binary identity, the importance of boundaries in both professional and personal life, and what they would say to a young person considering a career in suicide prevention.
This episode discusses suicide, sexual violence, domestic and family violence, HIV stigma, and experiences of discrimination.