Relationally Queer

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.

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.

Introduction  1. Getting real about monogamism: Disrupting mononormative bias in sex therapy and relationship counselling  2. Loving Freedom (beyond monogamy- opening up a dyad)  3. Common Presenting Issues in Consensual Non-Monogamy  4. When Sex, Health & Stigman Collide: Counselling People who Sex Work (and their partners)  5. The Trans Compass: A way of hearing and understanding trans people's relationships with their identities  6. Working with Bi+ Clients: Considerations for Individual and Relationship Therapy  7. Sankofa's Quest: Cultivating Queer, African-centred, homecomings through intersectionality in therapy  8. Working with Intimate Partner Violence in GSRD Intimate Relationships  9. Exploring the impact of a religious background or identity on LGBTQ people  10. Chronic Health Issues, Disability and Queer People  11. The impact of Antiretroviral Therapies and PrEP on Gay Men  12. GSRD-Affirmative Supervision of Psychotherapy  13. Living and Working within our Communities  Conclusion