Pink Therapy Services Newsletter Keeping You In the Frame
June 2004

Greetings!

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Training! Training! Training! We have been very busy here over the past few months creating some exciting new training opportunities for those therapists who are working with sexual minority clients and who would like to benefit from some high quality professional development.

We are also announcing two Conferences. The first - Queer Analysis is due to take place on 15/16 October 2004 and will feature cutting edge keynote presentations from some of the UK's leading psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as well as workshops from humanistic, analytic and integrative practitioners. We are also delighted to have as our guest speaker Dr Jack Drescher MD - a psychoanalyst from New York and author of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and the Gay Man who present two papers at the conference.

therapy and is an opportunity for therapists who have been doing some innovative research and writing cutting edge papers particularly for their Masters and Doctoral programmes. This conference will happen in the Spring 2005 and we are at present calling for papers.

Our second Conference - Pink Therapy - the Next Generation: to go boldly seeks to present the most recent theory and research into sexual minority

in this issue
  • Britain's First Professional Qualification Training in Sexual Minority Therapy
  • Two Year Specialist Training in Sexual Minority Therapy
  • Four Days 'Essential' Training for ALL
  • Professional Development Workshops
  • Queer Analysis Conference
  • External Events

    • Two Year Specialist Training in Sexual Minority Therapy

    We are pleased to announce a 2 year Post Qualifying Clinical Studies In Sexual Minority Therapy programme, aimed at the increasing number of counsellors and therapists who seek to specialise in working with sexual minority clients.


    Four Days 'Essential' Training for ALL

    We have also developed a four-day Essentials in Sexual Minority Therapy course, which forms the core part of the 2 year Post Qualifying course. The course is aimed at all therapists working with sexual minority clients

    This covers the latest theory and best practice in working with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender clients. It really is Essential!


    Professional Development Workshops

    We are also happy to announce our 2004/2005 Professional Development Workshops - we have focussed this year, especially on sex, drugs and relationships. This is a result of requests from YOU.

    Our Professional Workshops also form part of the Post Qualifying course and we are delighted to be able to have on board some new Training Associates helping to deliver these workshops.


    Queer Analysis Conference

    Psychoanalytic psychotherapy has traditionally had a difficult relationship with homosexuality. There certainly has been quite a bit of damage caused to lesbians and gay men by well meaning analytically oriented therapists who have sought to cure them of their 'perversion' or 'neurosis.'

    Yet, over the past twenty years new ideas have emerged, some from feminism, others within academia and Queer Theory and some from outside of these domains.

    Increasingly lesbian and gay therapists have taken to revising the theory and there is much to offer sexual minority clients from an analytic tradition.


    External Events

    We have been told about the following external events. PTS is not in a position to endorse workshops and course run by people othes, but is happy to pass information on. Caveat Emptor!

    WPF Workshops Exploring Sexual Difference: An Introduction to Luce Irigarary and French Feminist Thinking. Saturday 12th June 2004, 10.00am - 4.00pm. Workshop Leader, Brid Greally and Judith Butler and Queer Theory (Made Easy). Saturday 17th July 2004, 10.00am - 4.00pm. £65.00 Workshop Leader, Brid Greally There is a 15% discount if both workshops are booked at the same time. Both take place at WPF Counselling and Psychotherapy, 23 Kensington Square, London W8 5HN. Telephone 020 7361 4844 for application forms or email training@wpf.org.uk

    "IF......" Boarding school has a huge impact, for good or ill. The experience is often especially traumatic if we're gay and can affect us as adults many years later. We may learn to fit in, to function well at a surface social level, but at what cost? This one-day workshop looks at integrating the experience, so that we're less likely to play victim to a difficult past. There are two workshop dates planned at present: Sunday 25 July 10.30 am - 4 pm and Sunday 26 September 10.30 am - 4 pm. The cost per workshop is £48 and you are encouraged to attend both if you wish, though this is not a requirement. For further information see www.marcusg ottlieb.com email contact@marcusgottlieb.com

    Gay Men and Intimacy Monday 27th September 2004 for 12 weeks Gay Men's Therapy Group in London An opportunity to explore the ways we as gay men relate and achieve intimacy. This series is about looking at how we are as individuals by bringing our own experiences each week and sharing this with the group.

    If you have difficulty in achieving intimacy in your life this is a chance to look more deeply into what is not working for you and finding satisfactory alternatives. A therapy group running over 12 weeks starting on Monday 27th September 2004 will be facilitated by two gay men, Ian Holder and Jonathan Rosen. To book or for further information

    • Ian - email: ian@3cpartners.com Tel: 020 7490 5521
    • Jonathan - email: j_rosen@onetel.com Tel: 020 7624 8344

    Britain's First Professional Qualification Training in Sexual Minority Therapy

    It is widely acknowledged by most experienced therapists working with sexual minority clients that their initial training programmes offered them very little in the way of specific training in working with sexual minority clients.

    They may have had some time exploring anti-oppressive practice and which explored their attitudes, but clinical issues and lesbian and gay psychology are rarely ever covered by most UK counselling and psychotherapy training programmes.

    We are delighted to be able to help change that. Our new two year post qualifying clinical studies programme in working with sexual minority clients provides specialist training to an advanced level for people who are already qualified as counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists. It is aimed at people who are interested in specialising in working with sexual minority clients. It is flexible enough to be able to be of use to both experienced practitioners who want a structured opportunity to extend their knowledge and skills as well as recently qualified therapists beginning to work in this field. This training is a UK first, and we are very excited to be able to offer it.

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