Counselling with a Sexual Focus

Overview:

This course offers counsellors the opportunity to improve their ability to comfortably discuss sexual issues with their clients, identifying blocks affecting both themselves and clients and being aware of when referral is appropriate

Objectives:

By the end of the course students will have:

•  shared their concerns about counselling with a sexual focus
•  considered issues which may impact on sexual expression, and ways this could be approached in counselling
•  improved their understanding of what informs people’s ideas about sex and sexuality
•  identified relevant themes couples may want or need to discuss in counselling
•  considered ways to reflexively manage their relationship with the clients’ material
•  considered issues of difference and diversity and their effect on the sexual conversation
•  reacquainted themselves with the rationale for PST referral and what PST involves
•  participated in role play exercises to practise counselling with a sexual focus
•  considered their future learning needs

Course structure:

discussions/video/role play

Aimed at:

Counsellors working with couples/young people who have not recently had any training in working with a sexual focus.