BACP rule Christian counsellor’s attempt to cure gay man as ‘unethical’
Posted on Sunday 29 May 2011
From The Telegraph.
A Christian psychotherapist who tried to convert a gay man to become heterosexual has been found guilty of professional misconduct.
Lesley Pilkington was criticised by the professional body for counsellors after an undercover journalist posing as a patient secretly recorded her during a therapy session at her home.
Job Vacancy: Co-Cultural Counsellor – The Rainbow Project
Posted on Monday 20 September 2010
The Rainbow Project is seeking to recruit a Co-Cultural Counsellor to be based in Belfast and to be responsible for developing, promoting and facilitating the organisations peripatetic co-cultural counselling service targeting gay and bisexual men.
For more information visit www.rainbow-project.org or call Aidan on 90319030.
Closing date 24 September 2010
Job Vacancy: Counselling Manager – The Rainbow Project
Posted on Thursday 29 July 2010
The Rainbow Project is seeking to recruit for the position of Counselling Manager. The Rainbow Project is Northern Ireland’s only health organisation for gay & bisexual men. The salary for the position is £28,000 per annum and full details, including a job description, person specification and application form can be downloaded from the organisation’s website at www.rainbow-project.org.
BMA declares that ‘conversion therapy’ for gays is harmful
Posted on Thursday 22 July 2010
Gay rights campaigners are celebrating “a watershed moment” after doctors said so-called “conversion therapy” designed to change sexual orientation was discredited and harmful.
More than two-thirds of doctors at the British Medical Association’s annual meeting in Brighton approved a motion backing a call for the Royal College of Psychiatrists and other mental health standards bodies to reject such treatments and ban their use in their codes of practice.
Belfast Workshop – An Introduction to Sexual Minority Therapy
Posted on Monday 22 February 2010
Do you offer counselling or psychotherapy to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender clients? Are you confident that you have had sufficient knowledge and training to work competently with sexual minority clients? Would you be interested in updating your knowledge and have an opportunity to work on your values, beliefs and attitudes in this area?
One-day Sexual Orientation Awareness Training
Posted on Friday 12 February 2010
The Rainbow Project is Northern Ireland’s only agency specifically promoting the health and well-being of gay and bisexual men, and will be delivering Sexual Orientation Awareness training with a Counselling focus to counselling organisations in the Belfast Trust Area. Places are funded by the South and East Belfast Community of Interest under Investing for Health – Protect Life Funding. The topics covered in the training will include:
Supervision opportunity for LGBT therapists
Posted on Thursday 15 October 2009
Supervision of Sexual Minority Therapy – Advanced Workshop for Supervisors
Posted on Wednesday 23 September 2009