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Greetings!
We have a lot of news to impart this month! Thanks
to everyone who has been sending things in. We are
often getting emails from people saying how helpful
these newsletters are.
| 20% off Training Workshops! |
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This is just a reminder that we are offering 20% off
the cost of our next series of training workshops to
the first 10 people booking for each workshop before
the end of June.
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| Our First Research Seminar |
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Many of you will have read Cordelia Galgut's
research into lesbian clients experiences of therapy
in the latest CPJ (May 2005). It raises some
very important issues for all of us who work as
therapists regarding disclosure, boundaries,
transparency and training (amongst many other issues).
We have invited Cordelia to present our first
Research Seminar on Friday 1st July (the day before
the London Pride Parade). This is a 2 hour seminar
aimed at all practitioners, irrespective of gender,
sexual or theoretical orientation.
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| Royal Society of Medicine - Health with Pride conference |
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One-day conference focussing on the health needs and
issues around healthcare provision for lesbians and
gay men in the new NHS. On Thursday 30th June 2005
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London W1
9:30-17:00, One-Off £25-75
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| New Therapy Group in SW London |
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This has been received from a new member to the
Directory, Rojer Wheildon:
I am an Existential psychotherapist living and
working in private practice in Clapham SW4. I ran a
gay and bisexual men's group for Chelsea and
Westminster Health Authority for 2 years and would
like to start a private group in Clapham. I have
identified an excellent venue which is safe discrete
and accessible and is available to me on Tuesday
nights form 7 -9pm. £15 - 20 per session.
As yet I do not want to identify the group as having
any particular theme as I would prefer to see what
issues emerge as the group forms. I welcome all
sexual orientations and would happily run a group
for sexual minorities or a mixed orientation group.
If you would like to join a supportive private
Therapy Group held on Tuesday nights from 7pm to 9pm
in Clapham Old Town, call Rojer on 07905 619747 for
more details.
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| Certificate in Psychosexual and Relationship Counselling |
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Judi Keshett-Orr has told us about a one year p/t course
in psychosexual therapy she is running with Anita
Sullivan. There are very few lengthy sex therapy
training's around and so if you are thinking to do
one, check this out.
This course will offer trainees, newly qualified and
more experienced practitioners the opportunity to
explore and hone their counselling and
psychotherapeutic skills within the psychosexual
therapy/counselling domain. Using a variety of
Humanistic Integrative techniques we will address
the dilemmas that are inherent when combining the
more traditional models of sex therapy with Gestalt,
the work of John Heron, Imago, Dreams and Imagery
and Transactional Analysis.
Further information from Judi, email:
judiko@ulfie.demon.co.uk
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| Undergraduate and Postgraduate Prizes in LGBTQ Psychology |
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The Lesbian and Gay Psychology Section of the BPS
will award two prizes in 2005; one for the best
undergraduate thesis or essay in Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, Trans, or Queer Psychology, the other for
the best postgraduate thesis or essay in Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, Trans, or Queer Psychology.
Postgraduate and undergraduate students registered
in UK universities who receive their degrees in
either 2004 or 2005 are eligible to apply. Students
must have been registered in a UK university at the
time that they completed their essay/thesis to
apply. Students need not be members of the BPS, nor
members of the Lesbian and Gay Psychology Section to
apply.
To apply for the prize, please submit three hard
copies of your essay or thesis to Peter Hegarty,
Department of Psychology, University of Surrey,
Guildford, GU2 7XH by September 1st, 2005. In an
accompanying letter, please state your University
affiliation, the name of the supervisor of your
thesis or essay, and the prize for which you are
applying.
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| Pink Therapy Biannual Conferece - Call for Submissions |
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Our second conference will take place on the evening
of the 16 June 2006 and all day on the 17 June 2006
in London. The theme for this conference is
"Relationships" and welcome offers of innovative,
cutting edge and original workshops, papers etc.
Unlike our last conference which focussed only on
Analytic ideas, this conference will span
theoretical modalities and we welcome contributions
from a range of theoretical perspectives.
We will also be actively looking to continue to
represent sexual minority therapy in its broadest
sense, and not a simple focus on lesbian and gay
issues, therefore please bear this in mind in your
submissions.
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New Team Members! |
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We are delighted to welcome three new Clinical
Associates to the organisation. All three
therapists have a wealth of experience to bring to
the team and we are delighted to have them with us.
Tim Foskett (left) is a very experienced group
worker and is manager of the Group Work and Training
programme at PACE. He works humanistically and in
addition to his 1:1 therapy work, he also runs an
ongoing therapy group for gay men.
Judy Yellin (centre) is an attachment based
psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Judy is involved in
teaching at CAAP and elsewhere. She presented a
keynote paper at last year's Queer Analysis
conference on the therapists counter-tranference
reactions to transgender issues. (Audio recordings
are available of this and all the other Keynotes at
the conference - information in the Training section
of the website). [Judy's details will be online
shortly]
Anthony Johnson (right) has been working with sexual
minority clients for eight years and has been a
colleague of Tim's on the group work programme at
PACE. Anthony has extensive experience of working
with people with substance misuse issues. He has also
just been appointed to replace Stephen Weaver as the
gay men's sexual health counsellor at PACE.
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