Description
This 15 hour CPD module offers you the opportunity to:
- develop your understanding of how the dynamics of GSRD relationships may differ from heteronormative models that address intimate partner violence and consider the implications of this for your clinical practice
- explore the impact of the minority stresses on GSRD couples that can perpetuate and entrench intimate partner violence in their relationships in profound ways
- understand the neurochemical processes that are relevant to GSRD clients engaged in relationships affected by intimate partner violence and the connection with the habitual responses and repeated patterns that can overshadow clients’ lives and styles of relating
- learn how GSRD clients’ past experiences of being safe and unsafe in their particular personal contexts are vital to informing your therapeutic approach
- understand what creates change within GSRD relationships that have been affected by intimate partner violence and explore interventions that will support effective, compassionate and optimistic practice
- consider your own responses when working therapeutically with intimate partner violence and what this means for your self-care needs as a reflective practitioner
Candidates who submit and pass a short set of tutor-marked questions will achieve a Certificate of Study worth 15 hours of CPD credit from Pink Therapy.
About the Author:
Pamela Gawler-Wright MSc is Director of Training for BeeLeaf Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and has been a UKCP Registered Psychotherapist since 1994. Her training work includes Pink Therapy and several international organisations across different modalities of psychotherapy. Areas of practice include recovery from trauma, addiction and dependency, co-dependence and working with identity stress.
Service to UKCP Committees includes the Ethics Committee, the Diversity and Equality Committee and Education, Training and Practice Committee. As a Contemporary Psychotherapist, a range of approaches are integrated according to the client’s needs, sometimes working in brief therapy and sometimes longer term. She works with individuals and couples and also as a Consultant to organisations. Psychotherapy sessions last between 60 and 90 minutes so that there is time to explore and integrate into life what has been discovered in the work together.
Pamela is an Advanced Accredited GSRD Therapist with Pink Therapy and has been out as bisexual since 1980. She is married to her female bisexual partner of over 20 years. Working with transgender people is important to her, supporting their outcomes individually and collectively. She was highly active in achieving the cross-organisation, trans-inclusive Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy 2017.
