As with many radical grassroots movements, our story started 27 years ago in 1999 with our founder, Dominic Davies, and quickly evolved into a community and collective organisation spanning thousands of directory members, hundreds of students, and expert collaborators from across the globe.
All united in the belief that LGBTQ+ people deserve affirming, specialist mental health care that seeks to understand us, rather than judge and pathologise.
1999
A Shared Consulting Room
Dominic Davies founded Pink Therapy to meet a need mainstream services weren't meeting, only a few years after homosexuality was de-listed as a mental disorder in the UK.
2000
Gay Affirmative Therapy
Our first textbook, co-written by Dominic Davies and Charles Neal, brought a radical new approach to therapy. Two more followed as we expanded to speak to more overlooked identities.
2001
The First Conference
In-person training and collaborative sessions led to the first Pink Therapy Conference, laying the foundations for the annual gathering we still hold today.
2006
International Summer Schools
Therapists from across the world came together to collaborate, shape the profession and contribute to shared community knowledge. Many early contributors are still with us today.
Today
27 Years On
GSRD Therapy is now a recognised standalone discipline, with our Seven Core Components translated into 19 languages and representation across 70+ cities worldwide.
Between the milestones, a community grew. Summer schools, diplomas, masterclasses and gatherings from 2011 to 2023, with some of the many people who helped shape our work.
International Summer School
Olivier Cormier-Otaño, Miguel Rueda (Colombia), Wendy Yeo (Singapore), Marina Nekic (Croatia), Elena Kuzmanovic (Serbia), Valentina Moglia (Italy), Daniel Bąk (Poland), Elena Bain (Scotland) and Milan Djuric (Serbia).
International Summer School
Top to bottom, left to right: Dr Bartosz Grabski (Poland), Dr Simi Mizrahi (Israel), Udo Maar (Germany), Irene Del Pino (Spain), Julia Breinegaard (Denmark), Marion Bain (Scotland), Dominic Davies, Ivana Dumanić (Croatia), Dr Marina De La Hermosa (Spain) and Carole Singleton-Hughes (UK).
GSRD International Masterclass
Top to bottom, left to right: Jo Russell (Scotland), Klecius Borges (Brazil), Aleksi Jalava (Finland), Marco Pilia (Italy), Dr Andre Helman (France), Dr Marina De La Hermosa (Spain), Agata Loewe (Poland), El Agossou (London), Dr Gökçe Saridogan (Turkey), Judy Yellin (UK), Dr Bartosz Grabski (Poland) and Dominic Davies.
Diploma in Relationship Therapy graduation
Martin Rolston, Gian Montagna, Damian McCann (co-course leader), Irene Del Pino, Keith Carlton, Niki D, Alex Sanderson-Shortt, Sophie Amoni, Elena Bain, Leah Davidson (co-course leader) and Samantha Jones.
Beyond the Rainbow Conference
Programmes from our 2015 conference.
20th anniversary T-shirt
Designed by Olivier Cormier-Otaño for our 20th anniversary party.
Celebrating Pink Therapy
Editors Charles Neal (left) and Dominic Davies (right) at the 20th anniversary party for the publication of Pink Therapy, at the Canal Museum, London.
Diploma in GSRD Therapy residential
Residential intensive at Parkstead House, University of Roehampton.
EuroSex workshop, Warsaw
Participants at the first EuroSex workshop, with Agata Loewe, Dr Bartosz Grabski and Dominic Davies as faculty.
Clinical Associates retreat, Brighton
Tim Foskett, DK Green, Henry Strick, Silva Neves, Alex Sanderson-Shortt, Jo Dalton, Niki D, Ellis Johnson, Chance Czyzselska, Marco Pilia, Karen Pollock, Rima Hawkins, Pamela Gawler-Wright, Elena Bain and Dominic Davies.
Pink Therapy is the home of inclusive therapy.
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