Pink Therapy is pleased to present a series of Saturday afternoon webinars for therapists wishing to improve their knowledge on different aspects of Kink and Diverse Sexualities and Relationships. These webinars are offered on an a pay-what-you-can basis. You can book for or all events. Zoom login will be sent to those registered before the event.
**** There were 40 free and 40 Pay What You Can tickets for each event and these went within hours. Waiting Lists/Resell Tickets are open. ****
**** We are not recording these events. ****
When a client makes a disclosure about Kink on Saturday 2nd May 2020 3-5 pM UK time
In a world where 50 shades of grey continues to gain in popularity, some clients will be thinking about exploring this for themselves but won’t know how to be explicit about it. Or perhaps they have and you haven’t known quite how to respond confidently.
This training will give you a chance to increase your understanding of ‘kink’ and what it might mean to your clients. It will help you facilitate conversations and give you some tools to be confident in the counselling room in responding to both the explicit and implicit.
Trainer: LJ is a person-centred counsellor and trainer who works specifically with GSRD populations. They also teach counselling/psychotherapy at two universities.
Website: http://www.thecomfortablechair.co.uk/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/comfortablechairtraining
authority transfer / power exchange relationships on Saturday 9 May 2020 3-5 PM UK time
Working with people who are in part-time and full-time authority transfer based relationships requires a deep understanding of the subject when life is normal. Often therapists assume what a structure will look like based on limited examples and limited understanding of this category of relationships. There are a wide variation of structures and each has it’s particular strengths and potential pitfalls.
In this seminar you will learn:
- A robust definition of power exchange/ authority transfer relationships including case examples of different relationship structures and patterns that fall in this category.
- Three challenges that COVID-19 related issues have highlighted and how to address these challenges.
- How to harness these relationship structures to help the clients address other challenges that COVID-19 has triggered.
Trainer: Dr Lori Beth Bisbey is a psychologist, sex & intimacy coach who has been working with people for the past 30+ years to help them create & maintain meaningful relationships. She has a speciality in GSRD (gender, sex, & relationship diversity) and the treatment of trauma. Dr Bisbey hosts the A to Z of Sex® on the Health & Wellness Channel, Voiceamerica.com every Thursday.
Website: http://drloribethbisbey.com
Socially distant intimacy on Saturday 16 May 2020 3-5 PM uK time
Polycules, lovers, partners and more are struggling with separation by household during the current lockdown. How can we help clients to deal with this unexpected and enforced separation and maintain relationships?
Trainer: DK Green is a Midlands-based private practice psychotherapist and supervisor, working with a national and international, GSRD client base. A queer, trans, poly, leatherman himself, he's also well known as a public speaker, educator and workshop holder within those communities, as well as for Universities and conferences. Graduate of Pink Therapy GSRD Post-Graduate Diploma.
Website: www.dkgreen.com
Understanding Adult Baby and Diaper Lovers on Saturday 23 May 2020 3-5 PM UK time
Claire Maskery and Karen Pollock will be presenting insights into a client group who experience prejudice and misinformation on a daily basis, namely people who identify as Adult Babies or Diaper Lovers (AB/DL). You may be reading this questioning why this is relevant to you, but Adult Babies are not a rarity; “in mass media, an incomparably greater material can be found, indirectly demonstrating that paraphilic infantilism is not limited to individual cases” (Oronowicz and Siwak, 2016, p.10). Claire and Karen work with clients who have struggled greatly in trying to come out as an Adult Baby. They may superficially present as one homogeneous group, but this semi-interactive presentation seeks to make clear how the various sub-groups have profoundly differing needs, drives and aetiologies, thereby challenging commonly held assumptions and misconceptions.
Trainer: Claire Maskery is a Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapist working in private practice, specialising in developmental trauma, as well as working for Nottinghamshire NHS Forensic Services. Claire has also been a ‘professional Mummy’ for seven years and can give a unique insight into caring for people who identify as ‘Littles.’ She is also a second-year, part-time PhD candidate at The University of Chester where her research seeks to address the dearth of understanding regarding the non-sexual adult baby employing the question “What are the aetiology, drives and experiences of those who identify as non-sexual Adult Babies?”
Websites: https://www.clairemaskerytherapy.co.uk https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frances_Maskery
https://www.linkedin.com/in/f-claire-maskery-msc-36773932/
Trainer: Karen Pollock is a person-centred psychotherapist in private practice, specialising in working with Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversity. They have a post-graduate diploma in GSRD therapy, as well as a post-graduate Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling. They are also a diversity and inclusion trainer and have worked with organisations including the NHS, North East Ambulance Service, universities, colleges and in the private and third sector, providing training on working with the GSRD communities. They have written extensively on the prejudices and stigmas faced by GSRD communities, based on their own lived experience, client work and academic studies.
Website: https://counsellinginnorthumberland.com Twitter @counsellingkaz Website: Kink Aware Professionals listing
When The Kinks Won’t Sync Working with Mismatched Desires in Kink Relationships on Saturday 30 May 2020 3-5 PM UK time
People are attracted to each other for a number of reasons. So when two (or more) people get into a relationship, they may develop closeness despite discrepant kink expressions, or one being kink-identified while the other is not. Things may work okay for a while – until it all starts to fall over. In this session we will be looking at some of the ways two people can experience a kink mismatch, and how a therapist can help them figure things out.
Trainer: Tania Glyde (MA, MNCS Accred, AAGSRDT- Pink Therapy) is a psychotherapist in private practice in London, specialising in working with Gender, Sex and Relationship Diverse clients, offering both individual and relationship therapy.
Tania trained as a somatic sexologist in 2017: ‘Although my private practice is talk-only, the opportunity to learn in a somatic environment has been invaluable when working on sexual issues with clients. It has also contributed to making my practice more trauma-informed.’
Tania has recently done groundbreaking research into the experience of LGBTQ+ menopausal clients in therapy and in the healthcare system.
Websites: http://londoncentralcounselling.com http://researchgate.net/profile/Tania_Glyde Twitter: @tania_glyde