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Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversities: Working with LGBTQ+ Clients – Building an Affirmative Practice: Video Course

Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversities: Working with LGBTQ+ Clients – Building an Affirmative Practice: Video Course

Research has shown more people are identifying as non-heterosexual than ever before – making it imperative for psychotherapists, counsellors and psychologists to update themselves with Gender, Sex & Relationship (GSRD) Diversities. This becomes a key consideration as we are increasingly called upon to effectively provide therapeutic services that meet the specific needs of clients who identify as LGBTQ+. Furthermore, latest figures show that up to 4.5% of adult population may identify as gender-diverse, while an even higher percentage may have questions about their own gender identities – questions, that are increasingly relevant in our clinical settings as therapists.

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Course Credits

CPD: 3 / CE: 3

Speaker(s)

Dominic Davies

Course length in hours

3 hrs of video content

Full course information

Even though there has been greater visibility in recent years, LGBTQIA+ individuals continue to be more likely to experience mental-health difficulties – owing to the overarching presence of societal stigma. Also, they are more likely to encounter microaggressions when seeking mental health support, often expecting to meet with a lack of culturally competent care.

This intellectually stimulating and practical webinar by Dominic Davies, who specialises in Gender, Sexual and Relationship Diversity (LGBTQI+) and is the Founder and CEO of Pink Therapy; aims to update us on the current best practice guidelines that inform working with GSRD clients. The overall goal is to present an overview of the diverse gender identities, sexual orientations and relationship styles, with a particular emphasis on clinical practice and how we can adapt the therapeutic process to meet the specific needs of these client groups.

Through an interactive workshop, we will discuss:

  • How diverse gender identities, sexual orientations and relationship styles are present in the therapy room and the specific enquiries that we need to learn to make in initial sessions; while being compassionate & completely non-judgmental
  • An awareness of the cultural context relevant to therapy working with GSRD clients – specifically discussing the latest debates and polarisations in society around gender & sexuality
  • An overview of the core theoretical concepts in GSRD therapy – including how we can avoid being heteronormative in practice
  • Understanding some of the unique therapeutic processes of GSRD therapy, including skills and clinical interventions which will be illustrated by case studies.
  • An opportunity to reflect on our own blind spots, prejudices, and learning growth

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What you’ll learn

This intellectually stimulating and practical webinar by Dominic Davies, who specialises in Gender, Sexual and Relationship Diversity (LGBTQI+) and is the Founder and CEO of Pink Therapy; aims to update us on the current best practice guidelines that inform working with GSRD clients. The overall goal is to present an overview of the diverse gender identities, sexual orientations and relationship styles, with a particular emphasis on clinical practice and how we can adapt the therapeutic process to meet the specific needs of these client groups.

Learning objectives

  • Discuss how diverse gender identities, sexual orientations and relationship styles are present in the therapy room and the specific enquiries that we need to learn to make in initial sessions; while being compassionate & completely non-judgmental
  • Discuss the cultural context relevant to therapy working with GSRD clients – specifically discussing the latest debates and polarisations in society around gender & sexuality
  • Explain the therapeutic processes of GSRD therapy, including skills and clinical interventions

About the speaker(s)

Dominic Davies FNCIP, FNCPS. (he/him) is the Founder and CEO of Pink Therapy. He has been a psychotherapist, clinical sexologist and practice consultant for 40 years. He directs an international two-year post-qualifying online training in GSRD Psychotherapy.

Over the years, Dominic has received several honours and awards for his pioneering work in gender and sexuality. In 2015 he received the Practitioner award from the Sexualities Section of the British Psychological Society. He is the only non-psychologist ever to receive this award.

In 2016 he was made a Fellow of the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society, and in 2018 Dominic received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Sexual Freedom.

Dominic has also been made a National Council of Integrative Psychotherapists Fellow. Fellowship is the highest level of membership for these professional bodies.

In 2021 Dominic was named one of 50 Distinguished Gender and Sexual Health Revolutionaries by the University of Minnesota.

Dominic (with Charles Neal) co-edited the first three British textbooks on working with LGBT clients published in 1996 and 2000, and he has contributed numerous other papers and chapters to the literature of this emerging field. He has presented at many national and international conferences. After almost a quarter of a century, he has co-edited (with Silva Neves) two more Pink Therapy textbooks aimed at GSRD therapists and Sex & Relationship Therapists in Europe. Erotically Queer and Relationally Queer (Routledge). He also co-authored with Silva Neves a seminal chapter on Gender, Sex and Relationship Therapy as a theoretical model in the Sage Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy (5th edition)

Dominic has been referred to as one of the grandparents of Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversity Therapy in the UK and Europe.

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