Intersex-Centred Practice:

Specialist training course for Affirming, Inclusive, and Anti-Oppressive Care

Many well-intentioned professionals lack the specialised knowledge needed to provide affirming, trauma-and-violence-informed, and culturally humble support for intersex people, also known as people with innate variations of sex characteristics (IVSC). Without proper training, outdated models and misconceptions can lead to harm, reinforcing stigma and oppression, rather than fostering genuine inclusion, respect, and understanding.

This five-unit CPD course, Intersex-Centred Practice, is designed specifically for counsellors, family therapists, psychologists, psychotherapists, relationship counsellors, sex therapists, sexologists, and social workers who want to enhance their knowledge, insight, and professional skills in working therapeutically with intersex people. This course also addresses common gaps in the training typically provided to other practitioners who are likely to affect the lives of people with innate variations of sex characteristics (IVSC), including but not limited to endocrinologists, family medicine practitioners, general practitioners, genetic counsellors, gynaecologists, paediatricians, paediatric nurses, plastic and reconstructive surgeons, psychiatrists, and urologists.

You can gain the 30-hour CPD Certificate of Study issued by Pink Therapy by submitting and passing a tutor-marked assignment (max 1500 words), submitting reflective practice activity worksheets and passing two quizzes (70% pass rate).

Led by Dr. Gávi Ansara (he/him), a recognised specialist in the field, this unique training provides:

• A deeper understanding of a diverse range of intersex people's lived experiences and concerns

• Key concepts and terminology used in an intersex-centred practice framework, as distinct from queer, trans, and gender-centred approaches

• Structured critical reflection on how implicit biases and privilege, power, and oppression dynamics can affect work with intersex people

• Practical guidance on how to address commonly neglected concerns in intersex adults' intimate partnerships and erotic lives

• Practical tools and lived experience community-led guidelines for creating affirming, inclusive, and liberatory therapeutic spaces

• Evidence-based approaches that combine peer-reviewed findings with lived experience wisdom to challenge stigma, oppression, and misinformation

NOTE: This course applies a lived experience-led, evidence-informed, explicitly anti-oppressive, anti-racist, trans-affirming, intersectionally feminist, polycultural, trauma-and-violence-informed, and liberation psychotherapy approach that affirms the rights to bodily, gender, and genital autonomy and self-determination for intersex people of all ages.

Elevate your practice with specialist-led, cutting-edge education. Enrol today and become a specialist in intersex-affirming care.