Pink Therapy Cert SMT Staff Team

Course Director
Dominic Davies FBACP is Founder and Director of Pink Therapy and has been working with sexual minority clients and supervisees for over 25 years. He qualified in Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy in 1988 where he was trained by Brian Thorne, Dave Means and Elke Lambers, although had 5 years psychodynamic supervision prior to that (with Michael Jacobs, Moira Walker and Dr Bernard Ratigan). He has a background in Residential Social Work, University Counselling and is a former Senior Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy and Nottingham Trent University. He is a Senior Accredited Practitioner with BACP and has been accredited by them since 1986. In 2007, Dominic was made a Fellow of BACP for his "distinguished contribution" to the field.

Dominic is co-editor (with Charles Neal) of three volumes of the Pink Therapy textbooks (Open University Press 1996, 2000), and co-author (with Tom Shakespeare and Kath Gillespie Sells) of The Sexual Politics of Disability (Cassell, 1996). Dominic continues to write and publish on sexuality issues. Most recently, he contributed an article entitled Not in Front of the students for the BACP Journal therapy today challenging therapy training institutions to include sexual minority therapy issues in general counselling and psychotherapy training courses.

Dominic has a wide experience of sexuality related work - psychosexual therapy, work with survivors of sexual abuse and sexual trauma and disabled people's sexuality. He has a commitment to gender and sexual diversity. He is a professional member of WPATH and on the editorial board for the Journal for Gay and Lesbian Mental Health.

Core Teaching Staff (in alphabetical order)
Dr Naomi Adams is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Head of Sexual Health Psychology and Psychotherapy Services at Mortimer Market and Head of Psychosexual Services at the Margaret Pyke Centre. As a clinician, she works mainly from a systemic perspective and provides supervision and consultation to other professional groups from within this model. Her clinical and teaching interests include psychosexual difficulties, couples therapy, sexual assault, lesbian and gay psychology and young people. Naomi is an active member of the British Psychological Society HIV and Sexual Health Faculty Committee.

Dr Catherine Butler is trained as a Clinical Psychologist and Systemic Psychotherapist. She works in HIV and Sexual Health and at the University of East London as a Locum Clinical Tutor on the Doctoral Degree in Clinical Psychology. She has published on issues relating to sexuality, sexual health, HIV, personal/professional integration and therapeutic approaches when working with health issues (motivational interviewing; social constructionism). She has previously worked as a therapist in the family and couple's service at PACE. She was also on the British Psychological Society's Lesbian and Gay Psychology Section's committee and is currently on the HIV and Sexual Health Faculty's committee. Part of her work on this committee includes co-writing guidelines on behalf of the British Psychological Society for therapist working with clients from sexual minorities.

Deirdre Haslam has been working as a therapist with LGB clients for some sixteen years. She was a volunteer counsellor at London Friend and spent ten years as a supervisor at ELOP, the East London OUT Project. She is a trainer on the counselling courses at Anglia Ruskin University and has also offered workshops both for Pink Therapy and elsewhere on working with LGBT clients. Deirdre is a Clinical Associate of Pink Therapy and a contributor to the Pink Therapy books. She works in private practice in East London.

Charles Neal worked in innovative education for 25 years with all ages and abilities in many contexts, becoming Coordinator of the
largest London Open College Network & MA Access Studies tutor at South Bank University, before launching a busy independent
consultancy, therapy and supervision practice in 1990. He is also co- editor of the ‘Pink Therapy' trilogy of handbooks (McGraw Hill
1996-2000) and an Hon. Clinical Associate with Pink Therapy. (UKCP accredited through Spectrum/ BACP registered/1st Class B.Ed & Cert.Ed.-Univ. London Inst. Ed.)

Keith Silvester is an integrative psychosynthesis therapist, trainer and supervisor. A former convenor of London Friend, Keith has been a community worker and a student counsellor. He is currently training director of the Psychosynthesis & Education Trust in London. Keith is a Pink Therapy Clinical Associate and a contributor to the Pink Therapy book series.

Judy Yellin is a relational psychoanalytic psychotherapist working in private practice with clients of all sexualities and genders. She teaches at the Centre for Attachment-Based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy conducting seminars on Freud and on relational psychoanalysis, and provides training and seminars at a number of other therapy training institutes . She is a member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP), and is involved with the development of relational approaches to psychotherapy in the UK. Judy is also a Clinical Associate of Pink Therapy.

Course Supervisors
Damian McCann is a qualified and experienced systemic psychotherapist and supervisor. He is also a Clinical Associate of Pink Therapy and has developed a practice devoted to working with sexual minority couples. For many years, he has trained practitioners from a variety of backgrounds in thinking about their work with LGBT individuals and couples. He is the co-author of a recent paper on Lesbian & Gay Parenting, and is currently studying for his Doctorate in Systemic Practice at the Tavistock Centre, where he is conducting research on the meaning and impact of violence in the couple relationships of gay men.

Cloud Taylor MBACP (Accred) is a counsellor, psychotherapist and supervisor, working with individuals, couples and groups both in private practice and in counselling and psychotherapy training organisations. She qualified in Integrative Counselling in 1989 and in Psychosynthesis Counselling & Therapy in 1998. She is a clinical associate of Pink Therapy who has worked extensively, for almost 20 years, with issues concerning relationships, identity, and childhood wounding with sexual minority clients, as well as supervising other counsellors in this work. She cares passionately about training and supervision enabling all therapists to work well with sexual minority clients.

External Moderator
Carmen Joanne Ablack is the Director of the Centre for Integral-Relational Learning. She is a UKCP Registered Integrative Body Psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor in private and organisational practice. Carmen has been a trainer and supervisor at the Chiron Centre for the past 12 years. She is / has been a visiting tutor and supervisor on several masters programmes and also occasionally teaches abroad. Carmen is well known for her teaching and work in approaches to Working with Diversity, Body Psychotherapy Practice and Working with Somatic Trauma. She has provided a training, consultancy and supervision service to organisations and groups for the past 20 years and is a trained personnel officer. Carmen is a former Chair of the Chiron Association for Body Psychotherapists. She currently Chairs the Standards Board and the Training Standards Committee of the UKCP.