We are the UK's largest independent therapy organisation working with gender and sexual minority clients. As an organisation we aim to promote high quality therapy and training services for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and others who identify as being sexual minorities.

We comprise a team of 11 Associate Therapists who all positively identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual, and this also website hosts the UK's first online Directory of Pink Therapists which lists other qualified therapists around the UK who adopt a sexuality-affirmative stance and do not see sexual or gender variation as a sickness. These other therapists are all qualified professionals, with varying degrees of experience and training in working with sexual and gender minority clients. We cannot, however, ensure that their experience or work are equal to those of our Associate Therapists.

Pink Therapy was conceived for two reasons:

• first, that most therapy training organisations in the UK fail to address issues of sexual minority sexuality in their curricula.  This means that therapists (of all sexualities) leaving these programmes are often inadequately trained to work with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender clients. See our News section for more information about this.
• second, that some sexual minority therapists seem to feel their qualification to work with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender clients is simply a shared sexuality.  In our view this is not sufficient, and can lead to inadequate and poor practice. All therapists working with gender and sexual minority clients need specific training to be able to work effectively with this client group. See our Training section for more details on our professional continuing professional development workshops for therapists

If you are considering having some counselling or therapy, we recommend you check out your prospective therapist first, we have some questions to consider asking them here. If possible see more than one therapist and then decide who you feel best to help you.

Pink Therapy is committed to offering high quality therapy and training from qualified and highly experienced therapists. Our Therapists have many years' experience of working with sexual minority clients and are often involved in teaching and training other therapists on these issues, in this country and abroad.  Most of us have contributed to the growing body of literature about sexual minority therapy through publishing our own research or ideas. Specifically, a number of us have contributed chapters to three volumes of Pink Therapy which are the leading British textbooks on working with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender clients published by Open University Press/McGraw-Hill.

Our Mission Statement:
The provision of high quality therapy services by people who take an affirmative stance to sexual variation and gender diversity.  All the people associated with this site do not view people do not view gender and sexual diversity as deviant or sick.  They will not problematise your gender identity or your sexuality.

We have a policy of being open with clients about the provision of therapy services and the training and experience we have.

We are committed to offering training, clinical supervision and consultation to other therapists (and therapy training organisations) who are working with sexual minority clients to improve the overall quality and effectiveness of the services available.

We also want to promote self-help resources to enable gender and sexual minority clients to work on themselves as well as providing information about low cost and free counselling and support for people on limited incomes.

Pink Therapy was featured in an article in the Observer Magazine (18 August 2002). Click here to see what was written.
Dominic Davies, Pink Therapy's founder and director featured in an article in Out in the City (August 2007) Click here to see what was written

We've also won an award for our website design and service to the lgbt communities!