Pink Therapy News
Keeping YOU in the Frame
February 2010
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Greetings!
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 Where did that first month go?
We've started the year running with having a completely full training course (Introduction to Psychosexual Therapy) and bookings coming in for our revised six-day Essentials course (see below).
We're also going to be doing some in-house training in Northern Ireland and Relate have booked us to train some of their supervisors and psychosexual therapists.
Dominic attended the LGBT Consortium AGM last weekend and made some useful contacts for the development of our not-for-profit arm.
UKCP have offered us a half page advert to promote our International Summer School in The Psychotherapist and Dominic was featured in this month's Questionnaire in Therapy Today.
Finally, we hope to have a beta version of the new database software ready for preliminary testing very shortly. Hoorah!
Dominic DaviesDirector |
Essentials of Sexual Minority Therapy
From Sat 17th April 2010
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Do you offer counselling or psychotherapy to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender clients?
Are you confident that you have had sufficient knowledge and training to work competently with sexual minority clients?
Would you be interested in updating your knowledge and have an opportunity to work on your values, beliefs and attitudes in this area?
Pink Therapy is the UKʼs leading independent specialist therapy organisation working with gender and sexual minorities and we would like to invite you to participate in what we see as essential training for all therapists who are working with sexual minority clients.
This is a six day training, spread over three weekends.
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Supervision of Sexual Minority Therapy
Saturday 6th March 2010
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 We are offering a rare opportunity for clinical supervisors to further their knowledge and understanding of supervising therapists working with gender and sexual minority clients.
The workshop will be an interactive environment where participants can nominate issues for discussion but it will also include: - Learn what is different about sexual minority therapy and discuss some common clinical issues
- Exploring the complex interrelationship of sex and gender in the supervisory triad
- Increase awareness of the impact of heterosexism on the supervisory process
This seminar will be facilitated by Damian Mc Cann one of our experienced clinical associates who has extensive experience of supervision, and will be a mixture of some didactic input and discussion and informed by some guided pre-course reading
This will be a space to reflect on your practice as a supervisor with an intimate group of other supervisors. |
Couples Counselling for People impacted by the Recession
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 PACE is London's leading charity promoting the mental health and emotional wellbeing of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
We are able to offer no cost or very low cost couples counselling to people who have become unemployed or who have been impacted by the recession.
Please call Flavio on 0207 715 0370 for more information.
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Broken Rainbow UK
LGBT History Month CHARITY CELEBRATION AND FUNDRAISER EVENT
Saturday 20th February from 9pm to 2am
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 Party with a purpose! Saturday 20th February from 9pm to 2amat The Wall Bar(45 Old Broad Street, London, EC2N 1HU - Liverpool Street Tube station) Join us for an evening of entertainment, mingling, dancing, raffle, games and surprises in a smart London City venue on 3 floors! Main dancefloor to groove to world and pop / dance music by Guest DJsMezzanine & Loft to mingle, chill and showcase your agency publicity material (Agency Promotion Space must be booked) via events@broken-rainbow.org.uk There will be entertainment, mingling, dancing, raffle and surprises! Entrance/Donation is £15 (MRRA) Tickets are limited, so get yours online NOW on
http://www.broken-rainbow.org.uk/fundraisingevent.html Entry Conditions:Paypal Receipt & Card used for payment must be produced on arrival.Over 18yrs MRRA Feel free to send the invitation to your friends and mailing list! http://www.broken-rainbow.org.uk/images/invite2.gif ACCESS: we regret that the venue is not wheelchair accessible Looking forward to seeing you there! |
Request for Participants
Same Sex Couple
Counselling/Therapy Survey
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Jan
Grove is a PhD student at the University of Leicester UK and Senior
Lecturer in Counselling at Newman University College UK.
Her research is focused on the experiences of clients in same sex couple
counselling and she hopes that the results will contribute to enhancing
therapeutic support for same sex couples.
This
survey builds on earlier research and is looking for people who have had same
sex couple counselling /therapy to complete a short survey (about 20 minutes).
One or both partners can do this.
If this does not apply to you, but you know of anyone
who may be interested in taking part, please do forward this request.
More
information about the research and the survey itself can be found by following
the link below:
www.survey.bris.ac.uk/leicester/couplecounselling
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Recently
Diagnosed Course at Positive East
From Saturday
06th March 2010
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The next Recently Diagnosed Course
at Positive East in Stepney begins on Saturday 06.03.10 (9.30am - 4.00pm) and
then continues on Wednesday evenings (5.30pm - 9.00pm) from 10.03.10 until
28.04.10.
The
course is free and designed mainly for people who have received a diagnosis of
HIV at some time within the last twelve months.
In a
safe and supportive setting, along with others in a similar situation, the
course allows you the opportunity to begin dealing with the impact of your
diagnosis, and to learn more about living with HIV. You will find that a wide
range of information is provided, and we hope that this, along with the chance
to share your experiences with others, will help you explore your feelings
about being positive and to take a look at the many issues faced by positive
people.
If you
feel the course offers what you are looking for, you can complete and return
the application form or call me at Positive East in Stepney.
Places
are limited and will be offered on a first come first served basis. Subsequent
courses will run throughout the year.
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| Reparative Therapy alive and well within BACP membership |
I wonder if colleagues have seen this article in the Independent, where a BACP accredited member and a psychiatrist are practising reparative therapy which is a clear breach of ethical codes. They are even doing this on the NHS and via private health insurance.
Complaints have been lodged with their respective professional associations and I hope these get followed up and clear guidance gets issued to members. There is no evidence base for reparative therapy working and plenty of evidence it can do serious harm.
We really do still have a long way to go to help therapists realise this.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-exgay-files-the-bizarre-world-of-gaytostraight-conversion-1884947.html |
Our New Admin
Olivier Cormier-Otaño
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 I should have done this a a couple of months back but I had to persuade him to stop work long enough and be photographed! Please welcome Olivier Cormier-Otaño whom some of you will have already heard from in emails or over the phone. Olivier has begun to help out for a few hours a week with some of the admin tasks, especially marketing and administrating the training workshops and courses. He is also a qualified therapist and a recent graduate of our Certificate in Sexual Minority Therapy training. He's fluent in English, French and Spanish and so has proved invaluable in helping us promote the International Summer School too!
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| Central London consulting room space |
 We have space to rent in our offices which is a comfortable flat in the heart of Soho
We're open to complementary therapists as well as counsellors and psychotherapists who are comfortable working in a gay/trans friendly space renting from us.
We have a smaller consulting room furnished with a sofa and an armchair, it also has a small desk and Apple computer with internet access. There is also a massage table for complementary therapists who need it. This second room has nothing to identify it as a 'gay space' and is therefore suitable for a mixed practice. Daytime space available.
Click on link to download further details in a PDF document. |
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That's all for this month, thanks for your attention, and please do send us things that have a specific relevance to people working with gender and sexual minority clients. |
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Dominic Davies
Pink Therapy
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