Professional Development Workshops
Course Information
Supervision of Sexual Minority Therapy
We are offering a rare opportunity for clinical supervisors to further their knowledge and understanding of supervising therapists working with
gender and sexual minority clients.
The workshop will be an interactive environment where participants can nominate issues for discussion but it will also include:
learn what is different about sexual minority therapy and discuss some common clinical issues
exploring the complex interrelationship of sex and gender in the supervisory triad
increase awareness of the impact of heterosexism on the supervisory process
Each seminar will be facilitated by one of our experienced clinical associates who have extensive experience of supervision or by Dominic Davies,
and will be a mixture of some didactic input and discussion and informed by some guided pre-course reading
This will be a space to reflect on your practice as a supervisor with an intimate group of other supervisors.
Friday 20 November 2009 - 10.00-17.00 - with Dominic Davies
Saturday 06 March 2010 - 13.00-19.00 - with Damian McCann
Friday 14 May 2010 - 10.00-17.00pm - with Dominic Davies
These workshops are suitable for supervisors of all theoretical sexual orientations. They will take place in our offices in Soho from 10-4pm. Course Fee £120 (or £110 for members of the Directory of Pink Therapists).
Given each day will be slightly different and tailored to some extent around the participants individual learning needs we would invite you to complete a different booking form for this workshop.
Click here for a booking form
Trainers:
Damian McCann
is a qualified and experienced systemic psychotherapist and supervisor. He is also a Clinical Associate of Pink Therapy and has developed a practice devoted to working with sexual minority couples. For many years, he has trained practitioners from a variety of backgrounds in thinking about their work with LGBT individuals and couples. He is the co-author of a recent paper on Lesbian & Gay Parenting, and is currently studying for his Doctorate in Systemic Practice at the Tavistock Centre, where he is conducting research on the meaning and impact of violence in the couple relationships of gay men.
Dominic Davies FBACP is Founder and Director of Pink Therapy and has been working with sexual minority clients and supervisees for over 25 years. He qualified in Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy in 1988 where he was trained by Brian Thorne, Dave Means and Elke Lambers, although had 5 years psychodynamic supervision prior to that (with Michael Jacobs, Moira Walker and Dr Bernard Ratigan). He has a background in Residential Social Work, University Counselling and is a former Senior Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy and Nottingham Trent University. He is a Senior Accredited Practitioner with BACP and has been accredited by them since 1986. In 2007, Dominic was made a Fellow of BACP for his "distinguished contribution to the field."
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. Most recently, he contributed an article entitled Not in Front of the Students for the BACP Journal therapy today challenging therapy training institutions to include sexual minority therapy issues in general counselling and psychotherapy training courses.
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