Dr. Shelly Farnan is a licensed psychologist at Northwest Missouri Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center and the owner of Cultivate Psychological Services, LLC in Saint Joseph, Missouri. She is a 2009 graduate of The School of Professional Psychology at Forest Institute in Springfield, Missouri where she earned her Doctorate of Psychology in Clinical Psychology. Dr. Farnan began working with the LGBTQ population in 2007 and continues to specialize in working with, and on behalf of, LGBTQ people in the form of therapy, teaching, advocacy, becoming a trainer for the Missouri LGBT Health Access Training Network, and offering specialized trainings to organizations across the state. She remains up-to-date with literature and leaders in the field, acquires ongoing LGBTQ Continuing Education, and is working towards a specialty certification in Transgender Health through the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.
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