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News, opinions and insights into how you can improve your knowledge and skills to work more effectively with Gender, Sexuality, and Relationally Diverse (GSRD) clients.
Recommended resources for counselling professionals interested, or training in, GSRD therapy
Author: Sarah Pipkin, Outreach and Exhibitions Coordinator, UCL Special Collections, University College London. The resource was adapted from an assessment part of the author’s studies for an MA in Library and Information Studies at University College London. Content...
A response to the UKCP statement on withdrawing from the Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy v2
We, the clinical associates, faculty, students and members of Pink Therapy, wish to express in the strongest terms our condemnation of the decision by the UKCP to withdraw from the MOU2. The UKCP, alongside Pink Therapy, were founding members of the Coalition Against...
Pink Therapy Achievements over 25 Years
In the last 25 years since I set up Pink Therapy, I have co-edited five leading therapy textbooks. We have just submitted a proposal to co-edit one more - a textbook on the theory and application of GSRD Therapy - a new modality several other therapists and I have...
Components of Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversity (GSRD) Therapy
Over the summer, we held a two-and-a-half-day Think Tank with some of our faculty and alumni flying in from the far corners of the world to help develop our thinking on Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversity (GSRD) Therapy. One of the outcomes of this process was that...
Gender, Sex, and Relationship Therapy: An Emergent New Psychotherapeutic Approach
Introduction Gender, sex, and relationship therapy (GSRD) is an emergent psychotherapy building on the affirmative traditions of relational and humanistic schools and harnessing some of the techniques of third-wave cognitive behavioural therapy, which can be...
Book Review: Queering Psychotherapy edited by Jane C. Czyzselska
Jane Chance Czyzselska invites us to face the uncomfortable truth that the psychotherapy profession is influenced by colonial history and culture as well as which are unhelpful at best and harmful at worse for queer people. Czyzselska decided to have a conversational...
Beyond Marj and Homer: Embracing Relationship Diversity with a Splash of Simpson-esque Wisdom
Hey there, fellow therapists! Have you ever wondered whether Marj and Homer Simpson could teach us about relationship diversity? Grab your doughnuts and settle in because this online module will take you on a journey beyond Springfield and into the wonderfully diverse...
I’m Not Hypersexual, I’m “Flammasexual”
Written by Samantha Horley I’m a 53-year-old woman who has always had a high sex drive. In my profile on the Feeld app I say, “I’m a decent human who happens to be a hornbag, looking for same” which has proven rather successful. But other people use other words. I’ve...
Boris Johnson Shelves LGBTQA+ Conversion Therapy Ban
My colleagues are absolutely gutted to learn that Boris Johnson appears to flip-flop around on the Governments plans for banning 'conversion therapy.' Last night, ITN News broke an exclusive to say it was going to be shelved. After a great deal of lobbying, it...
The Queer Mental Health Workbook Review
The Queer Mental Health Workbook by Dr Brendan J Dunlop Dunlop’s book adds to the Queer self-help literature by offering knowledge and strategies on looking after our mental health, drawing from various tried and tested psychotherapeutic traditions, including CBT,...