Professional Development Workshops
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Sexual Minority Sex Therapy (Advanced Workshop for Sex Therapists) - Dr Naomi Adams and Dominic Davies
Saturday 12 April 2008 1pm - 7pm

This one -day workshop is aimed at experienced sex therapists (of all sexualities) who want to update their skills and knowledge of working with a diverse range of gender and sexual minorities. This is an area which can be ‘glossed’ over on some initial psychosexual training courses, and even where it has been covered, this workshop can serve as an refresher and update on current and contemporary ideas.

This one day workshop will offer the opportunity to:

• Learn about inclusive assessment strategies for sexually diverse populations
• Understand more about the political and social context influencing the sex lives of gender and sexual minorities (e.g. the impact of HIV, the lesbian sex wars, Operation Spanner, Illicit drug use in sex, Public Sex Environments and the Internet)
• Become familiar with a wide range of diverse sexual practices (including kink/bdsm)
• Develop your knowledge and skills in working with non-traditional relationship models (polyamory swingers, open relationships) through case discussion, role play/demonstrations

Trainers:
Dr Naomi Adams D.Clin Psych. 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 minorities, HIV and sexual health and health promotion.  Naomi is a Chartered member of the British Psychological
Society, Division of Clinical Psychologists, and a member of the Sexual Health Faculty and Lesbian and Gay Section.

Dominic Davies FBACP, - is Founder and Director of Pink Therapy and has been working with sexual minority clients for over 25 years. He qualified in Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy in 1988, although had 5 years psychodynamic supervision prior to that. He is a Fellow of BACP and an Senior Accredited Counsellor and Psychotherapist (BACP). 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.

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.

Fees: £95 for members of the Directory of Pink Therapists £105 for Non-members

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