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Chris Tompkins

About

Chris Tompkins is a Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT#134537), life coach, TEDx speaker, and author of the best-selling book, Raising LGBTQ Allies: A Parent's Guide to Changing the Messages from the Playground. Chris has a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University with a specialization in LGBTQ Affirmative Psychology.

Prior to becoming a therapist, Chris taught social-emotional learning (SEL) throughout Southern California for six years at high schools, after-school programs, the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Homeless Youth Shelter, and Los Angeles Central Juvenile Hall.

In addition to being a therapist, Chris is a writer and public speaker. He gives workshops and presentations for colleges, conferences, and organizations across the U.S. on topics such as mental health and LGBTQ populations, spirituality and religious trauma, “inner advocacy,” and raising LGBTQ allies.

His work has been featured on HuffPost, Healthline, Giddy, NAMI, Learning for Justice, Elephant Journal, and Scary Mommy.

Books by Chris Tompkins
Recent Posts
Decoding the DSM
It’s not possible to grow up during a certain time period and not be influenced by systemic and dominant cultural belief systems.
The Key to Healthy Child Development
One of the most important things we can offer a young person is attunement. To attune to a child is to say, “I see you, and I am a witness to your life.”
Key Factors Related to LGBTQ Bullying

The most powerful way we can teach a child is to embody the very thing we hope to see in them.

The most powerful way we can teach a child is to embody the very thing we hope to see in them.

Self-Love as a Therapeutic Intervention

The healing work we do makes a difference in more ways than we can ever know. It’s through our personal transformation that we collectively heal.

The healing work we do makes a difference in more ways than we can ever know. It’s through our personal transformation that we collectively heal.

How Heterosexism Can Be Traumatic

LGBTQ+ people don’t have access to the same levels of care as others suffering from addiction—often a result of the very thing preventing them from seeking treatment.

LGBTQ+ people don’t have access to the same levels of care as others suffering from addiction—often a result of the very thing preventing them from seeking treatment.

One of the Largest Health Issues Facing LGBTQ+ People Today

Because domestic violence is thought to occur most commonly in heterosexual relationships, members of LGBTQ+ communities may not even realize that they are experiencing IPV.

Because domestic violence is thought to occur most commonly in heterosexual relationships, members of LGBTQ+ communities may not even realize that they are experiencing IPV.