Relationally Queer A Pink Therapy Guide for Practitioners

Relationally Queer explores diverse intimate relationship styles and the connections with self for clinicians interested in gender, sex and relationship diversity. Offering readers a more inclusive and queer-friendly way of thinking about relationships, the book covers a range of topics that include intersectionality, consensual non-monogamy, working with shame, intimate partner violence, religious identities, and living with HIV. Exploring beyond a Eurocentric perspective, the book features a chapter on African-centred therapy and also includes the relationships of often erased populations such as bisexual people, sex workers, people with chronic health issues and trans people. The book will help psychosexual and relationship therapists, counsellors and psychologists who work with clients of diverse genders, sexualities and relationships.

Introduction Silva Neves and Dominic Davies 1. Getting real about monogamism: Disrupting mononormative bias in sex therapy and relationship counselling Dr Y Gávriel Ansara 2. Loving Freedom (beyond monogamy- opening up a dyad) Niki D 3. Common Presenting Issues in Consensual Non-Monogamy DK Green 4. When Sex, Health & Stigma Collide: Counselling People who Sex Work (and their partners) Cyndi Darnell 5. The Trans Compass: A way of hearing and understanding trans people's relationships with their identities Ellis Morgan 6. Working with Bi+ Clients: Considerations for Individual and Relationship Therapy Dr Susannah Grant 7. Sankofa's Quest: Cultivating Queer, African-centred, homecomings through intersectionality in therapy Joel Simpson 8. Working with Intimate Partner Violence in GSRD Intimate Relationships Rima Hawkins 9. Exploring the impact of a religious background or identity on LGBTQ people Saquib Ahmad 10. Chronic Health Issues, Disability and Queer People Dr Alex Iantaffi 11. The impact of Antiretroviral Therapies and PrEP on Gay Men Guillermo Llorca 12. GSRD-Affirmative Supervision of Psychotherapy Daniel Bak 13. Living and Working within our Communities Dominic Davies Conclusion Silva Neves and Dominic Davies

Silva Neves is a COSRT-accredited and UKCP-registered psychotherapist specialising in sexology and intimate relationships. He is a Pink Therapy clinical associate. He is a course director for the Contemporary Institute of Clinical Sexology (CICS), an international speaker, broadcaster and an author. Dominic Davies is the Founder of Pink Therapy, a clinical supervisor and sexologist and course director of two training programmes in gender, sex and relationship diversity therapy. He has been internationally recognised as one of 50 gender and sexual health revolutionaries.