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Gender, Sexual and Relationship Diversity (GSRD) Therapy Workshops – Book Now!

The North East Workforce Skills Programme and the University of Sunderland are hosting a Gender, Sexual and Relationship Diversity (GSRD) Therapy Workshops on 23rd and 24th November 2023 at Hope Street Xchange in Sunderland.

Current thinking in GSRD Therapy is the first part of a 2-day workshop with Silva Neves, who will present the essential knowledge therapists need to have to practice confidently and efficiently with clients with gender, sex, sexuality and relationship diversity (GSRD). You can attend just this workshop or you can attend both workshops, it is entirely up to you.

Over the years, offering therapy with a GSRD focus was a set of “special theories for a special population” but as the modern population self-identifies with more diverse gender, sexual and relationship identities, GSRD therapy has now become a modality of its own.

23rd November: Current Thinking in GSRD Therapy

On Day 1, you will learn:

• The definitions of GSRD
• The core competencies of GSRD therapy
• The current context of the challenges working with LGBTQIA+ clients
• How to work therapeutically with LGBTQIA+ clients
• Clinical discussions based on case studies

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24th November: Queerness and Polyamory

On Day 2, you will learn:

• How to understand being “Queer” as how to goes beyond the LGBTQIA+ populations, as some heterosexual clients’ gender, sexuality and relationships may fall outside of the mainstream.
• How “queering” our psychotherapy theories may be useful when working with all clients, as and when appropriate.
• How to work therapeutically with people who are in ethical non-monogamy relationships.
• How to work therapeutically with couples who want to open their relationships.
• Clinical discussions based on case studies.

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More About Silva Neves

Silva Neves is a COSRT-accredited and UKCP-registered psychosexual and relationship psychotherapist, and a trauma psychotherapist. He is a Pink Therapy Clinical Associate. Silva specialises in GSRD therapy and compulsive sexual behaviours. Silva is a COSRT-accredited clinical supervisor. He is a Course Director for CICS (Contemporary Institute of Clinical Sexology).

Silva is a member of the editorial board for the leading international journal Sexual and Relationship Therapy.

Silva is the author of two books: Compulsive Sexual Behaviours, A Psycho-Sexual Treatment Guide for Clinicians (Routledge), Sexology: The Basics (Routledge), and he co-edited two textbooks with Dominic Davies: Erotically Queer (Routledge) and Relationally Queer (Routledge). Silva speaks internationally, you can find out more about him on his website.

Find out more about the North East Workforce Skills Programme or contact us at neworkforceskills@sunderland.ac.uk.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by University of Sunderland .