Are you a qualified counsellor, psychotherapist or clinical or counselling psychologist?

• Are you interested in specialising or adding a specialisation in therapeutic work with sexual minority clients to your work?

Are you flexible, motivated, and committed?

Pink Therapy is pleased to be able to offer the UK's first professional training course for counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists in working with sexual minority clients from a non-pathologising perspective.

We offer you:

Core Tuition at our popular Continuing Professional Development training events

A tutorial group

- meeting monthly, 9 meetings per annum (54 hours group training/tutorials) on a mixture of weekends and Fridays. This will be training supervision and is envisaged to include some developmental and experiential work as well as clinical discussions about clients or professional issues. It is not intended to replace your regular clinical supervision. The groups will be facilitated by our Clinical Associates Damian McCann and Leah Davidson both or whom have extensive experience of training, group supervision and of course of working with a wide range of sexual minority clients

Indicative content

is likely to include familiarising participants with nurturing and conflictual discourses of gender and sexuality, working with psychopathology and severe disturbance, understanding more about your own sexual development and it's implications for therapeutic engagement, working with erotic feelings in therapy, understanding abusive experiences and their impact, LGBT health issues, non-pathologising approaches to working with sexual compulsiveness..

Clinical Work

Students are expected to work with at least two sexual minority clients per week, and if you don't currently have gender and sexual minority clients in your caseload, we can offer advice and guidance as to how to find some clients. These clients can either be seen at your own premises if suitable, or we may be able to help you find suitable premises. If you are already in private practice, it may be possible to use clients from within that practice. Pink Therapy is not responsible for finding clients for you though, and you should have reasonable plans for access to a suitable pool of clients.

The course has now received Accreditation from Middlesex University and some of the core modules are also endorsed by BACP and COSRT.

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This workshop is devoted to developing a framework for the thinking and practice of undertaking therapy with sexual minority couples.

Current thinking about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lifestyles in relation to coupledom will be examined. Although the workshop will identify specific challenges facing sexual minority couples, some of which may bring them for help, attention will also be paid to the factors which contribute to healthy functioning within couple relationships.

A key objective of this workshop is to help participants develop conceptual frameworks for undertaking effective assessment and therapy with sexual minority couples. To that end, research findings, theory and practice in the field will be utilised. The role of the therapist in relation to couple work will also be explored and dilemmas and challenges facing the therapist will be considered.

Issues to be explored include, amongst others;

·  getting into or out of relationships

·  making relationships work

·  managing change and conflict

·  addressing sex and sexuality

·  considering parenthood

Participants are encouraged to bring examples from their own practice to develop thinking and there will be ample room for discussion and debate.

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Winter 2011 - Sexuality in Supervision. (lead editors Chris Driver and Eleanor Creed- Miles. Copy deadline 17th October) Supervision and the therapeutic relationship, as in any relationship, can evoke powerful affects and especially those around sexuality, the erotic, heterosexual and LGBT dynamics. How we consider and understand these issues is often a delicate and sensitive dynamic and yet vital in ensuring that these factors are held within a safe framework, understood and given meaning. If you have experience in supervising in this area and would be willing to write an article please contact Chris Driver or Eleanor Creed-Miles. E-mail chris@driver4.prestel.co.uk or eleanorcreed-miles@tiscali.co.uk.

• Why young lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are more likely to attempt suicide.  
• Why lesbian and bisexual women are significantly more likely to have alcohol problems.
• Why gay and bisexual men are at greater risk of body image problems than heterosexual men.
• How these health inequalities can be reduced.