Working with gender, sexuality and relationship diversity

This seminar is intended for counselling practitioners and other interested professionals.

Working with gender, sexuality and relationship diversity. Challenging assumptions and biases

This keynote will present a brief overview of the wide range of diversity in gender identities sexual orientations and relationship styles. It will be an opportunity for therapists to self-reflect on common heteronormative assumptions and biases that the public and clinicians believe. These assumptions are often unquestioned because they are embedded in our society. Delegates will be encouraged to think creatively “outside the box” on how they can adapt their existing practice to meet the needs of clients that do not fit with the dominant societal scripts.

Learning outcomes for participants

1- Gain more awareness of diverse gender, sexual orientations and relationship styles that do not fit the dominant societal heteronormative scripts.

2- Gain more awareness in unpacking heteronormative assumptions and messages in society and the narratives of clients.

3- Challenge our usual clinical thinking by adapting our theories and practices “outside the box” for our diverse clients who do not fit in heteronormativity.

4- How to apply the knowledge of gender, sexuality and relationship diversities in the clinical setting.

Benefits for participants

1- Update their current knowledge of human diversity

2- Update their current knowledge of the heteronormative structures of our society and clinical training

3- Refine clinical skills in working with clients of gender, sexuality and relationship diverse populations.

About Silva Neves

Silva Neves is an award-winning, COSRT-accredited, BACP and UKCP-registered psychosexual and relationship psychotherapist, and a trauma psychotherapist based in London. He is a Pink Therapy Clinical Associate. He is also a COSRT accredited clinical supervisor.

he was also awarded by BACP for Distinguished Contributions to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Silva is the author of three books: Compulsive Sexual Behaviours, A Psycho-Sexual Treatment Guide for Clinicians (Routledge), Sexology: The Basics (Routledge), and Sexual Diversity (Karnac). He co-edited three textbooks: Erotically Queer (Routledge),

Relationally Queer (Routledge) and Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversity Therapy (Routledge). He also edited The Routledge International Handbook of Sexual Compulsivity and Clinical Sexology.

Silva contributed chapters in various publications including: The Handbook of Social Justice in Psychological Therapies, Queering Gestalt Therapy, The SAGE Handbook of Counselling & Psychotherapy, Sexual Minorities and Mental Health: Current perspectives and New Directions.

Silva wrote several articles in psychotherapy magazines and peer-reviewed journals, including New Psychotherapist, Therapy Today, Sexual and Relationship Therapy, The European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling.

He speaks internationally.

Website: https://www.silvaneves.co.uk