ONLINE: A Compassion Focused Approach to Psychosexual Problems

Timings and Registration‍

This workshop will be 7 hours towards your CPD, and you will receive a certificate of attendance shortly after the workshop via email. Handouts will be sent via email to be brought to the workshop. There will be no formal registration. You will be placed in a waiting room once you click on the link and the CMF Team will add you to the meeting.

This workshop is priced at a flat rate of £135.00. For those in difficult financial circumstances, who may struggle to afford this price, please contact hello@compassionatemind.co.uk

‍All timings are according to British Summer Time (BST): 09:30 - 16:30

Level: Intermediate

About this Course

This session will focus on using compassion focused therapy theory and practice to understand, formulate and treat clients experiencing psychosexual problems. We will introduce some of the most common psychosexual problems, including difficulties with desire, erectile difficulties, rapid ejaculation, compulsive sexual behaviour and pain during sex. The aim of the session is to help therapists feel more confident to talk about sex with their clients in individual, couple and group contexts, and formulate sexual problems in a transdiagnostic and integrative way. This training would be suitable for therapists with a good existing understanding of CFT who wish to build on their confidence and skills in talking about sex with their client group.

Recommend Reading

Vosper, J., Irons, C., Mackenzie-White, K., Saunders, F., Lewis, R., & Gibson, S. (2021). Introducing compassion focused psychosexual therapy. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 38(3), 320-352.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14681994.2021.1902495

Saunders, F., Vosper, J., Gibson, S., Jamieson, R., Zelin, J., & Barter, J. (2022). Compassion focused psychosexual therapy for women who experience pain during sex. OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine, 7(2), 1-13.

https://www.lidsen.com/journals/icm/icm-07-02-017

Workshop Leaders:

Dr Michael Yates

Michael is a Clinical Psychologist and Sexual and Relationships Therapist. He is currently the Psychology Service Lead at 56 Dean Street and TransPlus, a leading sexual health, psychosexual and gender affirming care service. He is currently a member of the BASHH Special Interest Group for Sexual Function and Wellbeing, who support training, consultation and policy development in psychosexual health nationally. He has developed both individual and group psychosexual treatments grounded in CfT theory and practice, and has a research interest in the development of compassion focused treatments for sexual and relationship difficulties.

Dr Jane Vosper

Jane is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist currently working in Sexual Health and HIV in the NHS. She has worked for over 12 years in NHS sexual health psychology services providing integrated psychological approaches for people experiencing difficulties with sex. She has also worked as a lecturer in clinical psychology; teaching and supervising doctoral research in the areas of HIV, sexual health, women’s health and compassion focused therapy approaches. She has published peer reviewed research, theory papers and book chapters on CFT and psychosexual problems. She is currently the chair of the British Psychological Society Faculty of HIV and Sexual Health (Division of Clinical Psychology).

Dr Stuart Gibson is a consultant clinical psychologist and has been working in sexual health and HIV for nearly 30 years since qualifying in Canada. His work in the UK over the past 24 years has focussed on supporting people living with HIV and promoting sexual wellbeing to people struggling with sexual difficulties in East London. Stuart has collaborated with Jane Vosper and other colleagues over the years in promoting and applying compassion focussed therapy in psychosexual settings. He has served as the Chair of the Faculty for HIV & Sexual Health in the British Psychological Society and has been the Head of the Psychology Service in HIV and Sexual Health at Barts Health NHS Trust in East London for the past eight years.