Professional Development Workshops
Course Information
Supervision of Sexual Minority Therapy
We are offering one-day seminar for clinical supervisors to further their knowledge and understanding of supervising therapists working with gender and sexual minority clients.
Since working with sexual minority clients is rarely covered in counselling and psychotherapy training programmes, or supervision trainings, then we think that supervisors working with therapists of all sexualities might appreciate an opportunity to come and discover what is different and what is similar in supervising sexual minority therapy.
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, discussion and possibly some live supervision if that seems to be useful.
This will be a space to reflect on your practice as a supervisor with a small group of other supervisors.
Saturday 11 October 2008 - with Cloud Taylor
Saturday 6 Dec 2008 - with Cloud Taylor
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 £115 (or £105 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.
Cloud Taylor MBACP (Accred) is a counsellor, psychotherapist and supervisor, working with individuals, couples and groups both in private practice and in counselling and psychotherapy training organisations. She qualified in Integrative Counselling in 1989 and in Psychosynthesis Counselling & Therapy in 1998. She is a Clinical Associate of Pink Therapy who has worked extensively, for almost 20 years, with issues concerning relationships, identity, and childhood wounding with sexual minority clients, as well as supervising other counsellors in this work. She cares passionately about training and supervision enabling all therapists to work well with sexual minority clients.
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.