Therapeutic Perspectives On Working With Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Clients (Pink Therapy)

Denis Bridoux is a psychotherartist and licensed NLP trainer based in Yorkshire. He is a member of Kink Aware Professionals, an international body supporting the needs of the S/M and sexual edge community. Secretary of Halifax Area Gay Group from 1982 to 1992, he was involved with HIV voluntary organisations in Yorkshire from the mid-1980s and was AIDS/HIV coordinator in South Humberside from 1991 to 1995. He runs licensed NLP courses for health-related professions with Post-Graduate Professional Education and for gay men as Outcome. Dominic Davies is a BAC accredited and UKRC registered independent counsellor and therapist and has been practising in the person-centred approach for 20 years. He was a founding member and former co-chair of the Association for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Psychologies UK. Dominic is in private practice in London, as a therapist and supervisor, and runs an international training consultancy developing sexuality training for therapists and other helping professionals in Europe and Australasia. He is a Visiting Fellow of Nottingham Trent University. Dr James Gray is a chartered clinical psychologist working for Brent, Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster Mental Health NHS Trust at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and the Kobler Clinic. Deirdre Haslam lectures in counselling at Anglia Polytechnic University. She is a UKCP registered psychotherapist and a supervisor accredited by the Roehampton Institute. She works in private practice and in the voluntary sector. At present she supervises for the East London OUT Project and the Stockwell Centre, Colchester. Susannah Izzard is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice, and Lecturer in Counselling at the University of Birmingham, where she runs the MA in psychodynamic counselling. Martin Milton is a chartered counselling psychologist and UKCP registered psychotherapist attached to the University of Surrey and the Kingston and District Department of Clinical Psychology. He is a professional member of the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regents College and is a member of the Society for Existential Analysis. In addition he has been Chair of the Standing Committee for Professional Affairs of the Division of Counselling Psychology (1994-8), sat on the Executive Committee of the Division (1997-8) and is currently on the committee of the newly established British Psychological Society section for lesbian and gay psychology. Charles Neal is a UKCP accredited humanistic and integrative psychotherapist, a supervisor and trainer in private practice. He is founder of the Association for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Psychologies UK. Charles is also a Co-director of Transform Consultancy. Graham Perlman is in clinical training in transactional analysis. He works as a therapist in South London in a private practice for gay men, as well as training in personal development skills. He co-facilitates the Healthy Life Programme for Camden and Islington Health Promotion Services -- a programme for HIV+ men to improve the quality of their lives by integrating exercise and psychological well-being. James Pett worked as a university lecturer in the Middle East. He has worked for both voluntary organisations and for a local authority in the fields of HIV/AIDS and drugs. Keith Silvester qualified as a psychotherapist at the Institute of Psychosynthesis, London, where he is a training supervisor. Formerly, he trained as a community worker and worked as a freelance training consultant. He is accredited as a counsellor with the British Association for Counselling and is registered as a psychotherapist with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. He is on the complaints committee of the British Association for Counselling. Since 1993, he has been employed as Student Counselling and Advisory Service Coordinator at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London. Gail Simon works as a systemic and social constructionist therapist. Gail works with The Pink Practice, Leeds and London and for the Airedale NHS Trust. She is a UKCP registered psychotherapist, a Kensington Consultation Centre registered systemic supervisor, a BAC accredited counsellor and a UKRC registered independent counsellor. Martin Weaver is a trainer and psychotherapist who has been involved in NLP since 1991. He worked for 11 years in the NHS as a senior manager. He now runs the Martin Weaver Health Consultancy. Martin will gain UKCP registration as an NLP psychotherapist in the year 2000. Gwyn Whitfield is a founding member of The Pink Practice in Leeds and London where she works as a social constructionist therapist. She has worked in the field of counselling, community and organisational development for over 20 years. Gwyn is a UKCP registered psychotherapist and a Kensington Consultation Centre registered systemic supervisor.Davies is the author of 'Therapeutic Perspectives On Working With Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Clients (Pink Therapy)', published 2000 under ISBN 9780335203338 and ISBN 0335203337.