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Director
Dominic Davies (WC2)
Hon. Clinical Associate
Charles Neal
Hon. Consultant Psychiatrist
Dr Victoria Holt
Associates
Michelle Bridgman (W1)
Leah Davidson (N8)
Tim Foskett (N4)
Pamela Gawler-Wright (E3)
Deirdre Haslam (E15)
Damian Mc Cann (W1)
Havva Mustafa (SE1)
Keith Silvester (SE1)
Judy Yellin (N2)
Christopher Whiteley (EC1)
BCM 5159
London
WC1N 3XX
T + 44 20 7836 6647
M + 44 7971 205323
[email protected]
www.pinktherapy.com
Diploma in Relationship Therapy
with Gender & Sexual Diversities
Type of Learning Activity:
Post Graduate Professional Development Programme
Start Date
September 2013
Mode of Delivery
Lectures, Seminars, Workshops, Experiential Learning, Small & Large
Group Discussion, Skills Practice, Presentations & Case Supervision
Audience Target Group
Professionally qualified counsellors/psychotherapists/counselling and
clinical psychologist, psychosexual therapists/others.
Applicants will be qualified and experienced practitioners with a
particular interest in developing their thinking and practice in regard to
relationship therapy with a range of gender and sexually diverse clients.
Admission to the course will be via a written application and an
interview by the course leaders.
Duration of Activity
126 Taught Contact Hours plus Approximately 250 hours self directed
study study
Estimated Numbers
12-16 per cohort
Estimated Frequency of Delivery
Biannually
Course Leaders
Leah Davidson Course Leader
Leah Davidson MBACP (Senior Accred.) - is a psychotherapist and supervisor working with
individuals, couples and families both in private practice and in the NHS. She is a Clinical Associate of
Pink Therapy who has worked with sexual minority clients for some 20 years. She has facilitated
workshops around various issues to do with sex and sexuality in statutory and voluntary sectors, and
is currently running a number of workshops exploring sexual feelings in the consulting room and is
one of the tutors on our Diploma in Gender and Sexual Diversity Therapy.
Dr Damian Mc Cann Course Leader
Damian Mc Cann is an advanced associate of Pink Therapy. He has a consultant family and systemic
psychotherapy post in the NHS and is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and clinical lecturer with the
Tavistock centre for couple relationships. He has published and trained widely on the subject of
gender and sexual minorities and his doctoral research was concerned with understanding violence
and abuse in the couple relationships of gay men. He also has a private practice offering individual
therapy and supervision. Damian is also a core tutor of our Diploma in Gender and Sexual Diversity
Therapy
Alternative Sexualities course tutors (by module)
These eight days of training are separately endorsed as CPD by COSRT
Su Connan - Understanding BDSM/Kink
Su Connan received her Diploma in Counselling in 2006 and is a BACP Accredited Counsellor/
Psychotherapist. She is a graduate of the one year Pink Therapy Certificate in Sexual Minority Therapy
(2009) and a member of the Pink Therapy ‘Thinking it Over’ mentoring group (2010).
Su practices as a Person-Centred therapist and works with lesbian, gay, bisexual, kink and queer
identified people in her private practice. Su set up and ran a school counselling service (2007) and
worked as a volunteer counsellor at the Metro Centre, an LGBT organisation (2008 – 2010).
Her article, A Kink in the Process, was the lead article in the July 2010 issue of Therapy Today.
Olivier Cormier-Otaño - Asexualities: intimacy and desire
Olivier Cormier-Otaño (MBACP Accred) is an integrative and relational counsellor and a
psychosexual therapist in private practice. He is an Advanced Accredited Sexual Diversity Therapist
with Pink Therapy with whom he studied on the Certificate in sexual Minority therapy. Olivier has
written published chapters on Gender and Sexual Diversity including Asexualities for various
publications.
Olivier is also part of the teaching team of the Centre for Psychosexual Health.
Dominic Davies - Introduction to Psychosexual Therapy and also Sexual Compulsivity
Dominic Davies FBACP, MBCAP (Senior Accred.) - is Founder and Director of Pink Therapy and has
been working with sexual minority clients for over 30 years. He qualified in Person-Centred
Counselling and Psychotherapy in 1988, although had 5 years psychodynamic supervision prior to
that. He is co-editor (with Charles Neal) of three volumes of the Pink Therapy textbooks (Open
University Press 1996, 2000), and co-author (with Tom Shakespeare and Kath Gillespie Sells) of The
Sexual Politics of Disability (Cassell, 1996). Dominic continues to write and publish on sexuality issues.
He was a Senior Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy at Nottingham Trent University prior to
spending a year living and working in Australasia in 1998/9.
In 2007, Dominic was made a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy for
his "distinguished contribution to the field."
Dominic has a wide experience of sexuality related work - psychosexual therapy, work with survivors
of sexual abuse and sexual trauma and disabled people's sexuality.
Grant Denkinson - Understanding Polyamory and non-monogamies
Grant Denkinson holds a masters in Integrative Psychotherapy from the Sherwood Institute,
Nottingham, awarded by University of Birmingham. He works in private practice and Student
Support, De Montfort University and has counselled male sexual abuse survivors at charity First Step
and coordinated listening services at bisexual events.Grant created the first UK polyamory day event,
supported subsequent ones, has run the UK-polyamory email list for many years, facilitates discussions
on non-monogamy at bisexual and BDSM events and has been featured in the media on nonmonogamy. A trustee of Leicester LGBT Centre and director of a bisexuality fundholding company,
Grant has many active projects around sex, sexuality and relationships.
Tim Foskett - Sexual Compulsivity
Tim Foskett is an accredited counsellor, psychotherapist and group psychotherapist with the
Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners, and the United Kingdom Council for
Psychotherapy. He is a director of Loving Men (www.lovingmen.org) which runs workshops and
develops resources on intimacy between men. Tim is a clinical associate with Pink Therapy. Between
1995 and 2008 Tim was the Groupwork and Training manager at PACE, London’s largest LGBT mental
health services organisation. He led and co-devised the sexual health and relationships groupwork
programme at PACE. He has written three interactive workbooks, published by PACE in association
with the Good Sexual Health Team at Camden PCT. These are Getting Ready (Self-esteem and
getting ready for a relationships), Getting What You Want (Friendship and relationships skills), and
Getting Sexy (Enjoying sex more), and two reports of groupwork with gay/bi men, Talking Spaces
(1986) and Talking Spaces II (1996).
Emily Hodgkinson - Bisexuality in the therapy room
Emily Hodgkinson PhD is a UKCP-accredited psychotherapist, trainer and facilitator specialising in
LGBT issues, diversity, conflict and eco-psychology. Much of her clinical experience was gained
working as a counsellor for people of diverse sexual and gender identities at Leicester LGB&T
Centre, where she created and ran a counselling service for a number of years. Emily has identified as
queer for the whole of her adult life. She is in a civil partnership and currently identifies as bisexual.
Amanda Middleton - Introduction to Psychosexual Therapy
Amanda Middleton is a qualified Family and Systemic Psychotherapist, with a special interest in Sexual
and Gender Diversity. She works therapeutically with families, couples and individuals who identify as
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer, Transgender and beyond.
Amanda has a commitment and expertise in working with complex and challenging issues, particularly
those related to gender, sexuality, marginalisation and difference. Initially qualifying as a Psychologist in
Australia, Amanda has a 15 year history in the social care and therapy fields, working in the dual
diagnosis, HIV and sexual health, drug and alcohol use, and domestic violence sectors. She is
particularly passionate about sex, sexuality and healing and developing queer therapeutic practices.
Currently Amanda works as a family and systemic psychotherapist, volunteers in the Psychotherapy
service at PACE, tutors in Systemic Psychotherapy at The Institute of Family Therapy London.
David Stuart - Without Condoms: motivational interviewing for high risk sexual behaviour
David Stuart has worked extensively with the LGBT community, specialising in recreational drug use,
PIED's (performance and image enhancing drugs), sexual health, chaotic lifestyles and community
engagement. He has also worked with London's street homeless crack and opiate users.
David is responsible for managing and developing London Friend’s education, training and outreach
services, including the Antidote substance misuse service. David has been instrumental in promoting
understanding and good practice in the field of LGBT substance use, and has developed unique
interventions and new care pathways for the emerging trends of Methamphetamine, GHB/GBL and
Mephedrone use, and the sexual contexts in which they are used.
He campaigns for equality and influences government policies on substance misuse and sexual health.
He has worked with a wide client group that includes sex workers, street homeless and steroid/PIED
users, but is most passionate about his LGBT client work.
Diploma Learning Objectives
The primary objective of this learning programme is to offer an in-depth training and understanding of
working therapeutically with a diverse range of relationships, e.g. monogamous, open, poly and kink
relationships. The course will also address differences between gender and sexual diversities and the
implications of working at the dynamic interface of these relationships. Intersectionality will provide a
particular frame of reference in considering relationships throughout the course.
We aim to deliver this training primarily through a range of theoretical lenses, skills practice, leaning
and reflexivity.
The purpose is to prepare qualified therapists to work with a range of relationship configurations
within a nonpathologising framework. We believe that this underpins cross- cultural, multi-cultural and
anti-oppressive practice.
Specific Outcomes
• Course participants will be assisted in deconstructing and challenging heteronormative thinking and
practice in regard to a range of relationships
• The course will provide an understanding and application of an integrative model of therapy,
drawing on systemic, psychoanalytic and transpersonal approaches
• Opportunities will exist for consideration of psychosexual therapy, and particular sexual practices
relating to gender and sexual diversities will also be examined
• Through an engagement with theory and skills based learning, participants will develop confidence
and competency in working with a range of relationship issues.
Assessment
Students will be assessed in two ways.
Firstly each student will be provided with an area of interest which they will develop throughout the
course culminating in a presentation at the end of the training.
Secondly, students will submit a written assignment relating to an aspect practice of 3,000 words. This
will be marked by one course tutor and a fellow student.
Students must fulfill attendance requirements.
Delivery of Training
The course will be run over a nine month period and will consist of 13 days supplemented by a
further eight days training on Alternative Sexualities. Each day will be broken into four sessions
(please see course outline).
Course Outline
Day 1: Introduction to Relationships
Session Number 1:" Students will be provided with an introduction to the course and an outline of
course requirements. Students will also have an opportunity to introduce
themselves and explore their specific learning goals.
Session Number 2: Relational group exercise and an exploration of points of learning.
Session Number 3: Identification of the range of relationship configurations relating to gender and
sexual diversity populations. Students will be helped to explore their particular
responses and reactions to these and potential practice dilemmas.
Session Number 4: An examination of the major therapeutic modalities used throughout the course,
i.e. systemic, psychoanalytic and transpersonal approaches.
Day 2. Introduction to Practice
Session Number 1:" Exploration of outstanding issues relating to day number 1 and introduction to
day number 2. A consideration of key concepts and examples from practice.
Session Number 2:" The use of a case presentation to develop principles in responding to a first
contact and conducting an initial session. Processing of key learning points.
Session Number 3:" Role plays for the development of skills practice in conducting a first session.
Session Number 4:" Processing the development of frameworks of thinking and practice.
Day 3. Technical Challenges/Technical Nightmares
Session Number 1:" Check-in reflective space.
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The use of case examples to address, e.g ethical considerations:- boundary issues
- the use of self
- issues of risk
Session Number 2 & 3:Role play scenarios and strategies for intervention.
Session Number 4:" Learning points and their application to a range of relational issues in therapy.
Day 4. Case Presentations
Case presentations and processing. Application of theory to practice.
Day 5: The impact of gender on relationships
Session Number 1: " Exploring the meaning of gender, sexuality and the potential impact on gender
and sexual diverse relationships.
Session Number 2:" Working with gender identity in couple and family relationships and its impact on
sexuality. In depth role play of couple in transition and identification of issues.
Session Number 3:" Exploring the impact of transitioning on the couple relationship.
Session Number 4:" Working with the therapist’s own relationship to gender and sexuality.
Day 6: Case Presentations
Case presentations and processing.
Applications of theory to practice.
Day 7: Risk and resilience in couple work
Session Number 1:" Managing violence in the couple and therapeutic relationship.
Session Number 2:" Working with the impact of trauma in relationships.
Session Number 3:" Understanding and working with borderline processes in couple relationships.
Session Number 4:" The impact of risk and increasing the therapist’s resilience.
Day 8. The couple and family processes
Session Number 1:" Exploring the meaning and impact of wider family systems on the couple
relationship.
Session Number 2:" Transition to parenthood and the impact of children on same same sex and
alternative family forms.
Session Number 3:" Working with families (including role play).
Session Number 4:" Processing and identifying particular learning points.
Day 9: Working with Polyamory and Kink
Session Number 1:" Understanding diverse relational forms and presentations for therapy.
Session Number 2: " Equipping the therapist to work with the issues.
Session Number 3:" Doing the work (role play 1/live consultation 1).
Session Number 4:" Doing the work (role play 2/live consultation 2).
Day 10: Endings and Beyond
Session Number 1: " Managing stuckness and “failure”.
Session Number 2:" Understanding and working with the processes of endings.
Session Number 3: " Supervision.
Session Number 4: "Review of personal and ongoing professional development.
Day 11: Presentations
Day 12: Presentations
Day 13: Closing and evaluation