Certificate in Sexual Minority Therapy
Certificate in Sexual Minority Therapy
Pink Therapy is pleased to be able to offer the UK's first ever professional training course for counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists in working with sexual minority clients from a non-pathologising perspective.
We offer you…
Attendance at 9 training events see below. Course dates click here
A small supervision group – meeting monthly for 3 hours, 9 meetings per annum (27 hours supervision) on a Friday evening. This will be training supervision and much of the format and content to be left to the discretion of the supervisor and worked out with course members. It is envisaged some developmental and experiential work will take place in this group as well as clinical discussions about clients or clinical issues. It is not intended to replace your regular clinical supervision. The groups will be facilitated by our Clinical Associates Damian McCann and Cloud Taylor both or whom have extensive experience of group supervision.
Students are expected to work with at least two sexual minority clients per week, and if you are in London, we may be able to augment your intake with clients from our low-cost counselling service where appropriate and available. 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.
We require from you:
Commitment! The course is run intended to be run over one year – attendance is expected at a minimum of 80% of the supervision requirements and 100% of the training and academic requirements, if you miss a training event you'll need to make up the module.
One seminar presentation – a one-hour diversity seminar on a gender or sexual minority group about which they previously had no experience of working with – presented to a group of fellow students and Clinical Associates.
One academic paper per year – 6-8,000 words on an aspect of sexual minority therapy, Students will be encouraged to consider publication of successful papers.
Course Fees:
There are several elements in the course fees and we've broken them down in order to try to minimise the financial impact of undertaking the course. These fees can be paid in part or whole by credit/debit card. Payment terms are available to accept installments to successful applicants by arrangement.
Basic course fee £1250 which will includes your supervision, assignment marking, etc There is an early bird discount of 15% available for people booking before 14 July 2008. The closing date for applications for this course is 31 July 2008 to allow time for selection interviews etc.
Plus
Workshop fees for all training workshops required. Students on the Certificate in Sexual Minority Therapy course are eligible a discount on the advertised cost of the workshop. Training fees would be £90 per day workshop. Workshops must be paid for at least 6 weeks before the event. The requirement is to attend all 9 training events over the course, unless you have already attended the module in the past three years. i.e. if you need to attend all 9 events your training fee would be £810.
Plus
Personal Therapy with a course-approved therapist is generally recommended, and may be required for some individuals at some point during the course. This is something to be explored with the course director and may be required on the recommendation of the course director and/or your course supervisor. Working at depth with sexual minority clients requires a deep level of self-awareness and given that many people have had fairly poor experiences personal therapy with therapists inexperienced in working with sexual minority clients, this work may have not had the opportunity to be done. Furthermore, issues may arise during the course either in the workshops or supervision groups and so having access to personal therapy will be invaluable to assist you in your development and practice.
Successful completion of the course, will result in the award of a Certificate in Sexual Minority Therapy awarded by Pink Therapy – external validation is being considered and the course will be externally moderated.
Selection Procedure
• Letter of Application detailing current training in and experience of working with sexual minority clients
• Supervisors report
• Reference from another person who knows your work, and can comment on suitability
• Interview with Dominic Davies – Programme Director and another member of the training team.
Entry Criteria
• A qualification to Diploma level (minimum of 250 hours) in Counselling, Psychotherapy, or Counselling/Clinical Psychology or equivalent.
• Significant experience of Personal Therapy. If this has not been met, a willingness to engage in further therapy with an approved therapist.
• Some clinical experience of working with sexual minority clients
• Satisfactory reports/references supporting participation in the programme
• Adequate personal support resources available to undertake a demanding and challenging course of study.
Course Syllabus (click here for a staff list)
Essentials of Sexual Minority Therapy (five one day workshops):
Day One – Trainers: Dominic Davies & Catherine Butler
Exploring contemporary models of Gender and Sexual Diversity
Day Two - Models of Sexual Minority Therapy
Understanding the social contexts of sexual minorities lives
Days One and Two will be over a weekend (Sat AND Sunday) the other days (except the Psychosex weekend) will be on Saturday's 1-7pm to allow day return travel from most of the UK.
Day Three - Trainer: Charles Neal
Internalised Oppression
Day Four – Trainer: Deirdre Haslam
Coming Out
Day Five – Trainers: Dominic Davies & Catherine Butler
Professional Issues: Managing dual Roles, Ethical Practice and Boundaries
Therapeutic Resources
Introduction to Psychosexual Therapy - Trainers: Dominic Davies and Naomi Adams
Weekend course (Saturday and Sunday)
Self Esteem Injury and Social Context - Trainer: Keith Silvester
One day workshop exploring how self-esteem can be impacted by bullying, self-harm, trauma, shame, the gay scene and drug abuse and how to work with some of these issues
The Development of the Self and the Function of the Therapeutic Alliance - Trainer: Judy Yellin
(one day workshop)
Elective content
One workshop of your choice from our extensive programme in the current series of the programme.
(one day workshop)
Plus attendance at a day of cutting edge peer led seminars by your fellow students!
Accreditation of Prior Learning
If you have already undertaken one or more of these training workshops over the past three years, then you may apply for exemption and have your prior learning taken into account. You will still need to fulfill all the supervision and other course work requirements.
Learning Objectives and Assessment methods
Please click here for more information
Pink Therapy reserves the right to amend, change or cancel workshops, the course design or trainers at it's own discretion.