Pink Therapy International Summer School

Do you offer counselling, psychotherapy or emotional support to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender clients in an isolated environment perhaps in private practice or for an LGBT NGO/Voluntary Organisation?

Are you confident that you have sufficient knowledge and training to work competently with sexual minority clients in these circumstances?

Would you be interested in updating your knowledge and have an opportunity to work on your values, beliefs and attitudes in this area?

We are aware from frequent enquiries from counsellors and support workers around the world that they are often faced with gender and sexual minority clients with demanding mental health issues where they themselves have received little or no formal training in how best to offer help.

These workers are often working in isolation without formal supervision or consultation support and doing the best they can, but with little opportunity to check out their ideas and discuss their work.

We hope by providing this week-long intensive course you will find a greater sense of confidence and increased knowledge of some of the current ideas and developments in therapeutic practice in working with LGBT people.

There will be extensive guided pre-course and post course reading which is both optional and encouraged.

English will be the working language throughout the course and participants need to be able to understand written and spoken English.

Numbers will be strictly limited and we advise early application to secure a place.

The course will be faciltated by a team of experienced therapists/trainers and the content will be similar to our well established Essentials in Sexual Minority Therapy training programme.

There will be an opportunity for a social programme with visits to London's LGBT venues

Day One: Contemporary Models of Sexual & Gender Diversity - Dominic Davies & Dr Lyndsey Moon
Day Two: Developing Models of Sexual Minority Therapy - Dominic Davies & Dr Lyndsey Moon
Day Three: Working with Internalised Oppression - Charles Neal
Day Four: Externalised Oppression - Havva Mustafa
Day Five: Coming Out issues - Deirdre Haslam
Day Six: Professional and Ethical Issues & creating Personal Support Networks - Dominic Davies & Dr Lyndsey Moon

Course dates: 5-10 July 2010 / 4-9 July 2011
This course is non-residential but we can recommend low-cost accommodation for participants.

Course Fees: GBP £800 there may be some limited bursaries for delegates from low/unfunded voluntary organisations, but early application for external funding support is advised.

Quotes from previous students:
“This is the first training course I've attended in a long time where I really learnt something new. An extremely well organised course with a great deal of supporting material. The experiential learning was particularly helpful.”
“An excellent, well prepared and presented course concerning essential aspects of this important subject. Informative, engaging, thought provoking and professional.”
“Very useful. High standard and have provoked much further thought and possibilities to explore. I feel I have learnt a huge amount.”

About Pink Therapy
Pink Therapy is the largest independent specialist, gender and sexual minority therapy organisation in the UK directed by its founder, Dominic Davies (co-editor of the Pink Therapy trilogy of textbooks), with a team of thirteen highly experienced Clinical Associates working across the full range of related specialisms. Pink Therapy has gained an excellent reputation amongst clients and professionals and pioneered an extensive training programme, an invaluable online referral directory, self help videos, a monthly newsletter and other resources, as well as working with thousands of clients in therapy.

Our website is consistently in the top five on google searches for gay therapy and gay counselling. The website contains a wide range of self-help material aimed at gender and sexual minority clients who may not be able to find adequate local therapy, or therapists looking for resources.

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