Professional Development Workshops
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I'm Too Sexy For… - exploring ‘sexual addiction’, ‘sexual compulsivity’ and issues relating to sexual behaviour and sexuality with Dominic Davies and TIm Foskett Saturday 21st June 2008 - 1pm - 7pm Central London
Fees: £95 for members of the Directory of Pink Therapists £105 for Non-members
Gay men are sometimes concerned about their sex lives being out of control. They may present for help with self-diagnosed "sexual addiction". In this workshop, we will offer some new ways of thinking about sexual compulsivity and explore whether the 'Addiction model' is appropriate for conceptualising and working with such issues.
Sexual addiction is not a recognised and validated diagnostic category in the DSM or ICD. Treatment approaches are largely sex negative, pathologising and can compound the shame the client is already feeling about their sexuality. They also lack a political and cultural analysis. In this workshop we will offer non-shaming, sexuality affirmative ways of conceptualising sexual expression – and explore some alternative ways of understanding and working with people who feel their sexuality is out of control.
We will explore how you can integrate some of these new concepts into your own therapeutic model. The seminar will be both didactic and experiential with opportunities to explore client and personal material. The workshop is open to therapists of all genders and sexual identities.
Dominic Davies 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.
Tim Foskett is an accredited counsellor, psychotherapist and group psychotherapist with the Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners. Since 1995, with Alfred Hurst, Tim has led the sexual health groupwork programme for gay/bi men at PACE, including the ‘Out of Control’ workshop which explores sexual compulsive issues. He has trained in person-centred and existential counselling and groupwork at City University, counselling psychology at PHYSIS and humanistic integrative psychotherapy at Spectrum.
Tim has worked in a variety of settings, as a trainer, counsellor, researcher and dance teacher. As well as working for PACE, Tim is a teacher of 5RhythmsTM dance and currently has a private practice in North London where he sees individuals and couples, and runs on-going therapy groups for gay men. Tim is also a Clinical Associate with Pink Therapy.
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