Pink Therapy

Introduction to Psychosexual Therapy
Dr Naomi Adams and Dominic Davies
Saturday 28th (1pm - 7pm) and Sunday 29th March 2008 (9.30 - 5.30pm) (TWO DAY COURSE)
Central London
Fee £210 (Directory Members); £230 (Others)

Unless one does a specialist sex therapy training, one is probably ill prepared for understanding much about sexuality issues. Even if one did do a psychosexual training, probably very little was mentioned about minority sexualities.

This two day workshop provides an introduction to some of the key issues in working therapeutically with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender clients with psychosexual concerns, as well as clients involved in Kink/BDSM practices.

The workshop will cover current models of sexual response, the classification of sexual difficulties and a brief review of the literature and then explore some of the implicit assumptions in these hetero-normative models.

By widening our understanding of sex, sexuality and sexual difficulties we will give workshop participants an opportunity to explore some of the multiple contexts (sexuality, gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion etc) that shape both clinicians and clients views of sexual difficulties and diverse sexual practices.

We will then move on to interactive exercises with the aim of helping participants develop practical skills in assessment and therapeutic interventions with individual clients and couples.

We hope that by the end of the two days, participants will feel a greater sense of confidence in incorporating discussions of sex and sexual functioning into their general clinical work and/or developing their psychosexual therapy.

Quotes from previous participants:
"The course left me feeling saturated yet hungry for more."
"As an 'introduction' to psychosexual therapy, I felt it worked well in introducing and opening up different ways of working with clients who may introduce issues of difficulty. 'It did what it says on the tin!'!"
"The organisation was very good."
"I liked the blend of presentations, role play and exercises giving us an opportunity to put into practice our learning in a controlled environment."
"I appreciated Naomi and Dominic's accessibility and sharing of clinical and life experiences."
"The presentation style was informative, relaxed, sensitive and with appropriate humour."
"I found the pictures and films on female anatomy and genitalia helpful. As a heterosexual woman I've never seen so many vulvas! The video on explicit sexual practices was also help."
"The course left me feeling more confident with psychosexual therapy, incorporating it more where it is not always obvious and more confident in working with lesbian clients. Thank you very much."

Facilitators
Dr Naomi Adams, BA Hons, D Clin Psy, has been working as a Clinical Psychologist in HIV & Sexual Health for the past ten years and is currently Head of HIV and Sexual Health Clinical Psychology Services for the Mortimer Market 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.

Dominic Davies FBACP, MBCAP (Senior Accred.) - is Founder and Director of Pink Therapy and has been working with sexual minority clients for 25 years. He qualified in Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy in 1988, although had 5 years psychodynamic supervision prior to that. He 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. He was a Senior Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy at Nottingham Trent University prior to spending a year living and working in Australasia in 1998/9. In 2007, Dominic was made a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy for his "distinguished contribution to the field."

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.

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