Our Clinical Associate Catherine Butler is co-editing a book on diversity and has sent us this appeal for contributors:
Do you feel you have something to write about the diversity within lesbian, gay and bisexual lives?
We are putting together a book that aims to widen the existing psychological and therapeutic literature on lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) issues within a British context. The book will unpick what it means to be lesbian, gay, and bisexual by exploring the social-cultural differences within these labels and how these differences interact to make being LGB a unique experience for each person who use these labels or identities. The aim of the book will be to open up therapists' understanding of this diversity and encourage their curiosity when working with sexual minority clients. It is hoped that by doing this, therapists will work in an ethical, supportive and non-discriminatory way with sexual minority clients.
We plan to have separate chapters that explore difference and diversity around:
- gender
- ethnicity and race
- religion/faith/spiritual communities
- Migrants/refugees/asylum seekers
- age
- class
- physical and mental heath
- disability
Each chapter will be about 10,000 words. Obviously these chapters will overlap in places, and as editors we will encourage this and support cross-referencing by having an overview of the whole book as it progresses.
We are particularly keen to have input from clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, CBT specialists, psychiatrists, and counsellors. Chapters can be written by individuals or small groups (of up to four people). We welcome multi-disciplinary collaboration on each chapter.
If you could like to find out more, please contact Roshan das Nair and Catherine Butler on the following emails:
Rosh -
roshan.nair@nottingham.ac.ukCatherine -
butler.catherine@gmail.comWe hope to hear from you by the end of August so we can submit the proposal to the publishers
August is traditionally a quieter month for therapists. Well that's the rumour we've heard! There seems little sign of it here at Pink Therapy HQ - with selection interviews for our new one-year Certificate in Sexual Minority Therapy course starting off the month and then a number of writing projects on the go for some autumn teaching Dominic has been invited to do in addition to recruiting participants for our wide-range of training workshops 
Our very successful Essentials course has now been extended to a five day course to allow more time to explore contemporary models of sexual and gender diversity and a more in depth exploration of Sexual Minority Therapy. We hope to welcome therapists of all sexual and gender identities and the course is relevant for therapists from all therapeutic modalities. 
We are grateful to Stephan Dais who has been tirelessly working away over the past year to catalogue almost of Dominic's personal library of self help books. His abstracts are now online in an updated section of our 
If anyone is looking for a central London consulting room (Soho, 3 mins from Piccadilly Tube) to rent in the evenings and daytimes, then please get in touch as we still have some capacity at our office. 