Sexual Minority Therapy

From Pink Therapy -

Do you offer counselling or psychotherapy to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender clients?
Are you confident that you have had sufficient knowledge and training to work competently with sexual minority clients?
Are you knowledgable about working with a wide range of gender and sexual minorities from different social, and cultural backgrounds? Intersectionality, shame, complexities of coming out are all crucial issues to be familiar with.

Pink Therapy would like invite you to undertake our well respected Six-day Essentials in Sexual Minority Therapy. This 3 weekend training programme is  BACP endorsed. It is also a core component to our year long Certificate in Sexual Minority Therapy accredited by the Middlesex University (we still have a couple of places left for this Sept 2011 intake, interview dates have been set and so please contact us soon if you want to join the programme).
The Essentials program includes:
Sat 22 Oct: Contemporary Models of Sexual & Gender Diversity - with Dominic Davies & Lyndsey Moon
Sun 23 Oct: Developing Models of Sexual Minority Therapy - with Dominic Davies & Lyndsey Moon
Sat 19 Nov: Working with Shame and Internalised Oppression - with Tim Foskett
Sun 20 Nov: Understanding Externalised Oppression and Intersecting Identities - with Havva Mustafa
Sat 10 Dec: Coming Out issues - with Deirdre Haslam
Sun 11 Dec: Professional and Ethical Issues & Resources - with Dominic Davies

What previous participants said about this training:

"This course really has been ESSENTIAL to my personal and professional development as a gay man and a counsellor to Gender and Sexual Minority clients. What a bonus to find a group and space where I belong."
"It will underpin the work I am currently doing..."
"It's good to have the opportunity to explore those issues, be challenged but also affirmed."
"I would like to encourage more heterosexual therapists to come along."

This is an intensive learning experience and there will be extensive guided pre-course and post course reading which is optional and encouraged.

Fees are £600 for all six days or £220 per w/e for members of the Directory of Pink Therapist (£240 per weekend for non-Directory members)  Priority given to whole course bookings and for weekend modules.

For all details and a booking form: http://www.pinktherapy.com/training/essentials

Black Men on the Couch

From UKCP -

Despite attempts within the psychotherapy and counselling profession to achieve change,  there are still very few Black psychotherapists and the same is true of those who seek therapy. The UKCP’s Diversity, Equality and Social Responsibility Committee present Black Men on the Couch, the first of a series of events aiming to change the status quo surrounding counselling and psychotherapy and open it up to those who would previously have never considered it, either for themselves or as a profession.

Join us for this unique event at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, where we’ll be in conversation with black men in the public eye about their challenges and successes and their views on the value of talking therapies. During the evening, the audience will be invited to ask questions of our guests(s) and the therapist.

Afterwards, there will be an opportunity for networking and a chance to find out some more about the world of counselling and psychotherapy.

Ticket prices: £10 or £5 concessions
To book your ticket, please contact the
Theatre Royal Stratford East Box Office
directly:
T: 020 8534 0310 (open Mon – Sat, 10am –6pm)
Typetalk: 07972 918 050
E: tickets@stratfordeast.com
W: http://www.stratfordeast.com/
For further information please contact: events@ukcp.org.uk · 020 7014 9966 or visit our website: www.ukcp.org.uk/events

Talk in the Bay

Here's Talk in the Bay's workshop programme for 2011-12 - looks like there are some interesting events going on.

10/09/11 or 21/04/12 - The Psychology of Sexual Offenders and the Impact on Survivors – Part 1 (this is a stand alone workshop)
08/10/11 or 09/06/12 - Understanding PTSD and Working with Flashbacks
15/10/11 - Honing your CBT Skills with Clients: An Experiential Workshop
22/10/11 or 12/05/12 - The Psychology of Sexual Offenders and the Impact on Survivors – Part 2 (attendance at part 1 is recommended)
12/11/11 or 14/07/12 - Resilience Training: Helping Clients Find Lifetime Coping Strategies
28/01/12 - Understanding Personality Disorders
11/02/12 - Motivational Interviewing
25/02/12 or 16/06/12 - Let’s Talk about Sex: Discussing sex, intimacy and relationships with clients
10/03/12 & 11/03/12 - An Introduction to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (2 day workshop)
15/04/12 - Understanding and Working with Anxiety and Panic

Cost: £75.00 (£150.00 for 2 day workshop) including a light lunch
Book and pay for 2 or more workshops together and save 10%
For further information and terms and conditions visit www.talkinthebay.co.uk
Enquiries: e-mail talk-in-the-bay@hotmail.co.uk or telephone Allyson on 07753180166

Unashamed Self Promotion

OK, a little ashamed at least! Just to say that I'm setting up a business creating simple web sites for therapists. It's called, wait for it, "Simple Sites for Therapists" and you can find more details here.

Very new DVDs of very old tapes!

We've now reached the point where it seems as if nobody is using VHS tapes anymore, so when the library prepared for it's move from the AYY campus it told us that it was going to start disposing (ie putting in the bin) a number of VHS tapes which, though once popular, were no longer being taken out.

 Francesca Inskipp & Brigid Proctor

This seemed to be a bit of a shame, so we've had a number of the tapes transferred to DVD. These are not commercial products but simply records of things that have taken place at Newport over the years. For the most part they're of very poor technical quality but they should still be of interest. The following DVDs will be finding their way back to the library over the next couple of weeks -

Brigid Proctor & Francesca Inskipp filmed in 2006 running a workshop on "making the most of supervision.
Gerard Egan running a workshop in 2001
The Smoking Tapes - the work that formed the basis of our first commercial product "The Client, the Counsellor and the Unsuitable Friend"
Michael Jacobs running a workshop in 2003
Windy Dryden running a workshop in 2002
Pete Sanders running a workshop in 2004

I think it's fair to say that the technical quality improves as time goes by but it's still very much the message that should impress you rather than the medium!

Praying away the Gay

Interestng article in the Guardian recently describing how an undercover journalist visited a therapist with the wish to be "treated" for his homesexuality. This resulted in a BACP hearing which concluded that the therapist had demeonstrated "professional malpractice". I learnt about this via the South Wales Email Network of Therapists bulletin board -  Interesting stuff, and thank you to Alex for bringing it to our attention.

Tragic Life Stories

Just looking for something else (always the way) when I came across this, a photo I'd taken in W H Smith's a year or two ago. I found myself being vaguely bewildered. A section for tragic life stories.....interesting stuff.