Working with Gender, Sexuality, and Relationship Diversity in Therapy

This 2-3 hour training supports trainee and qualified counsellors and psychotherapists to develop a better understanding of socio-cultural and political impacts for GSRD clients.

This includes:

• Introducing, defining and exploring Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversity (GSRD)

• Applying an intersectional lens and Social Graces model

• Making sense of key terms, including pronouns.

• Unpacking harmful psychoanalytic roots and positioning current harm in therapy

• Psycho/pathologization of queer and trans people across healthcare

• Systemic violence, ‘conversion’ therapy and transphobia

• Adult and youth mental health

• Protective factors and good practice.