Therapist disclosure of sexual orientation (TDSO) is a highly debated topic in GSRD therapy. As a Counsellor, Therapist or Mental Health Professional with a minority sexual identity you may have concerns about how you will be received by clients, colleagues, within organisations or training settings and whether disclosure puts you at risk of prejudice or oppression. You may have questioned whether disclosure of your sexual orientation would compromise your therapeutic modality or feel unsure about how disclosure sits within the legal and ethical frameworks that underpin professional practice.

Our online-learning Therapist Disclosure of Sexual Orientation module draws upon the latest research and clinical opinion to offer you a clear picture of the issues for both therapist and client. The module will support you to develop a congruent approach to disclosure within your own clinical practice, leaving you feeling confident about delivering effective therapy to clients without compromising your own identity and well-being.

This 15-hour CPD module offers you the opportunity to:

• understand the risks, concerns and ethical issues and implications for both therapist and client related to therapist disclosure of sexual orientation
• explore research and clinical thinking about methods, reasons and types of therapist disclosure of sexual orientation
• consider reasons why therapists may not disclose their sexual orientation to clients and the implications of this in terms of the costs of concealment
• relate research and clinical thinking on therapist disclosure of sexual orientation to your own personal experiences

You will receive a Certificate of Study worth 15 hours CPD credit from Pink Therapy if you submit and pass a tutor-marked assignment.

About the Author:

Dominic Davies FNCIP, FNCPS (he/him) is the Founder and CEO of Pink Therapy. He has been a psychotherapist, clinical sexologist and practice consultant for over 40 years.

Over the years, Dominic has received several honours and awards for his pioneering work in gender and sexuality. In 2015, he received the Practitioner Award from the Sexualities Section of the British Psychological Society. He is the only non-psychologist ever to receive this award.

In 2016 he was made a Fellow of the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society, and in 2018 Dominic received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Sexual Freedom.

Dominic was also been made a Fellow of the National Council of Integrative Psychotherapists. Fellowship is the highest level of membership for these professional bodies.

In 2021, the University of Minnesota named him as one of 50 Distinguished Gender and Sexual Health Revolutionaries.

Dominic (with Charles Neal) co-edited the first three British textbooks on working with LGBT clients published in 1996 and 2000, and he has contributed many other papers and chapters to the literature of this emerging field. He has presented at many national and international conferences. After almost a quarter of a century, he has co-edited (with Silva Neves) two more Pink Therapy textbooks aimed at GSRD therapists and Sex & Relationship Therapists in Europe. Routledge published Erotically Queer and Relationally Queer in April 2023. He is now working on the first core textbook for GSRD Therapy, which had its foundations in the Sage Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy (5th edition).

He has been referred to as one of the grandparents of Gender, Sex and Relationship Diversity Therapy in the UK and Europe.