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.

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 of Sexual Minority Therapy – Advanced Workshop for Supervisors

Posted on Wednesday 23 September 2009

Friday 20 November 2009 – 10.00-17.00

Pink Therapy – the UK’s largest therapy training organisation specialising in sexual orientation issues – are running an advanced training workshop for the supervision of practice with lesbian, gay & bisexual clients.