Dominic Davies is the Founder of Pink Therapy, a UK organisation that is committed to improving the mental health of gender, sex, and relationship diversities. He has been working as a psychotherapist, clinical sexologist, and practice consultant for over forty years, pioneering in the UK the development of GSRD therapy as a new specialist field of clinical practice.Silva Neves is an award-winning, COSRT-accredited, and UKCP-registered psychosexual and relationship psychotherapist and a trauma psychotherapist. He is a Pink Therapy Clinical Associate and works extensively with the LGBTQ+ communities. He speaks internationally.Antonio Prunas, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, psychotherapist, and sex therapist, living and working in Milan, Italy. He is a Pink Therapy Clinical Associate and Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology at the Department of Psychology of Milano-Bicocca State University.

'After reading this book, I am left with a feeling of joy, wanting to read the book again! It offers valuable insights, reflections, and approaches to a group having faced discrimination, devaluation, neglect, shame and fear for so long. This is another step in the affirmative and explorative approach led by Pink Therapy, guiding “therapists in delivering effective and ethical therapy with GSRD clients”, applicable to any psychotherapeutic approach, psychodynamic, behavioural or gestalt; they all have their distinctive contributions to the big picture!'Elsa Almås, Professor Emerit, University of Agder'This collection deconstructs and decolonises therapy; queers the binaries of exploration and affirmation, acceptance and change; challenges paternalism and hierarchies in therapeutic communities and spaces; embraces the ongoing fluidity of selfing; and encourages us to face our personal and collective shadows with kindness and honesty. I’m so grateful to this exceptional group of authors for their thoughtful, tender words, which expand and deepen what GSRD therapy can be, as well as applying it across a wide range of client groups.’Meg-John Barker, Co-author of Graphic Guides and ‘How to Understand Your…’ books on GSRD‘This book provides a bold and excellent insight into the values and benefits of GSRD-oriented therapy and the application of such across the spectrum of therapeutic modalities. Clinicians will find comprehensive resources to embrace discriminated, disadvantaged and often marginalised clients with fluid, diverse experiences whilst working to reduce any impact of heteronormative pathologization with social justice as a key driver. As therapeutic models expand systemically this is an exceptional resource to recommend that should ensure a meaningful impact is evident for both clinicians and clients.'Professor Kevan Wylie, MD FRCP FECSM, Past President, World Association for Sexual Health'This book is an inspiring and deeply moving journey through the lives and realities of GRSD people. Too often rendered invisible or rejected in society, they are at risk of being re-exposed to similar dynamics within the therapy room. Whether through personal bias or theoretical distortions, therapists may unintentionally replicate those same damaging patterns. This courageous publication – a continuation of the earlier and now iconic Pink Therapy series – offers a powerful opportunity to shift that reality.'Dr Bartosz Grabski, MD, PhD, FECSM, WPATH-CM, Sexology Lab, Department of Psychiatry, Medical College, Jagiellonian University 'Gender, sex, and relationship diversity (GSRD) therapy is an exciting and important new development in the counselling and psychotherapy field: offering a flexible, sophisticated, and de-pathologising approach that is open to all. GSRD therapy aligns with what we know works best in therapy: a knowledgeable, skilled, and deeply affirming therapist who is able to practice with compassion and humility. I thoroughly commend this book as a comprehensive, in depth, and engaging guide to this emerging practice.'Mick Cooper, Professor of Counselling Psychology, University of Roehampton‘I found myself reflecting on the advantages of a transmodal book on GSRD for counsellors and therapists. The chapters cover a range of LGBTQIA+ attuned therapies and address key areas of lived experience. These overlays of theoretical difference and lived experience create a weave that invite readers to find useful information and read with a critical eye in considering potential social consequences of theory-in-practice across different population groups. This is a useful and supportive text for trainees and experienced therapists alike.’Dr Gail Simon, Systemic Psychotherapist, The Pink Practice, UK

• Part 1: The essence of GSRD therapy Chapter 1: What is Gender, Sex, and Relationship Diversity Therapy? (Antonio Prunas) Chapter 2: What do GSRD therapists do? (Dominic Davies) Chapter 3: Key elements of GSRD therapy (Silva Neves) Chapter 4: Obligatory, not optional, the development of the GSRD therapist (Agata Loewe-Kurilla) Part 2: Integrating GSRD therapy Chapter 5: Integrating GSRD Therapy - Exploration and affirmation: bridging the great divide (Paul Christopher Mollitt) Chapter 6: Staring at Shadows (Karen Pollock) Chapter 7: Distress directed towards our own Queer Bodies and Lives: A Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) informed approach to clinical work with people who identify as GSRD (Dr James Lea & Dr Brendan J Dunlop) Chapter 8: A figure of the affirmed self: Gestalt and GSRD Therapy meet (Daniel Bąk) Chapter 9: Internal Family Systems (IFS) to support GSRD people dealing with body image difficulties (Alessio Rizzo) Chapter 10: Biopsychosocial – and mysterious! A Queer Jungian perspective on the meaning of GSRD (George Taxidis) Chapter 11: Mentalising Internalised Stigma (Wilson Gallego Hoyos) Chapter 12: Mirror Ball Encounters. Group therapy with GSRD Communities (Niki D and Tim Foskett) Chapter 13: Decolonising the Vision of Wellbeing in Emotional Psychosexual and Relational Health for GSRD Clients (Rima Hawkins) Part 3: Special interests in GSRD therapy Chapter 14: Working with LGBTQ+ youth (Cat Johnston and Maria Kindstedt) Chapter 15: The Spectrum of Family: Navigating the Challenges and Triumphs of Queer Parenting (Daniel Morrison) Chapter 16: Queer Spirituality in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Matthew Cormack) Chapter 17: Queer Aging and Endings (Christian Schulz-Quach & Margo Kennedy)

Dominic Davies is the Founder of Pink Therapy, a UK organisation that is committed to improving the mental health of gender, sex, and relationship diversities. He has been working as a psychotherapist, clinical sexologist, and practice consultant for over forty years, pioneering in the UK the development of GSRD therapy as a new specialist field of clinical practice.Silva Neves is an award-winning, COSRT-accredited, and UKCP-registered psychosexual and relationship psychotherapist and a trauma psychotherapist. He is a Pink Therapy Clinical Associate and works extensively with the LGBTQ+ communities. He speaks internationally.Antonio Prunas, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, psychotherapist, and sex therapist, living and working in Milan, Italy. He is a Pink Therapy Clinical Associate and Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology at the Department of Psychology of Milano-Bicocca State University.

'After reading this book, I am left with a feeling of joy, wanting to read the book again! It offers valuable insights, reflections, and approaches to a group having faced discrimination, devaluation, neglect, shame and fear for so long. This is another step in the affirmative and explorative approach led by Pink Therapy, guiding “therapists in delivering effective and ethical therapy with GSRD clients”, applicable to any psychotherapeutic approach, psychodynamic, behavioural or gestalt; they all have their distinctive contributions to the big picture!'Elsa Almås, Professor Emerit, University of Agder'This collection deconstructs and decolonises therapy; queers the binaries of exploration and affirmation, acceptance and change; challenges paternalism and hierarchies in therapeutic communities and spaces; embraces the ongoing fluidity of selfing; and encourages us to face our personal and collective shadows with kindness and honesty. I’m so grateful to this exceptional group of authors for their thoughtful, tender words, which expand and deepen what GSRD therapy can be, as well as applying it across a wide range of client groups.’Meg-John Barker, Co-author of Graphic Guides and ‘How to Understand Your…’ books on GSRD‘This book provides a bold and excellent insight into the values and benefits of GSRD-oriented therapy and the application of such across the spectrum of therapeutic modalities. Clinicians will find comprehensive resources to embrace discriminated, disadvantaged and often marginalised clients with fluid, diverse experiences whilst working to reduce any impact of heteronormative pathologization with social justice as a key driver. As therapeutic models expand systemically this is an exceptional resource to recommend that should ensure a meaningful impact is evident for both clinicians and clients.'Professor Kevan Wylie, MD FRCP FECSM, Past President, World Association for Sexual Health'This book is an inspiring and deeply moving journey through the lives and realities of GRSD people. Too often rendered invisible or rejected in society, they are at risk of being re-exposed to similar dynamics within the therapy room. Whether through personal bias or theoretical distortions, therapists may unintentionally replicate those same damaging patterns. This courageous publication – a continuation of the earlier and now iconic Pink Therapy series – offers a powerful opportunity to shift that reality.'Dr Bartosz Grabski, MD, PhD, FECSM, WPATH-CM, Sexology Lab, Department of Psychiatry, Medical College, Jagiellonian University 'Gender, sex, and relationship diversity (GSRD) therapy is an exciting and important new development in the counselling and psychotherapy field: offering a flexible, sophisticated, and de-pathologising approach that is open to all. GSRD therapy aligns with what we know works best in therapy: a knowledgeable, skilled, and deeply affirming therapist who is able to practice with compassion and humility. I thoroughly commend this book as a comprehensive, in depth, and engaging guide to this emerging practice.'Mick Cooper, Professor of Counselling Psychology, University of Roehampton‘I found myself reflecting on the advantages of a transmodal book on GSRD for counsellors and therapists. The chapters cover a range of LGBTQIA+ attuned therapies and address key areas of lived experience. These overlays of theoretical difference and lived experience create a weave that invite readers to find useful information and read with a critical eye in considering potential social consequences of theory-in-practice across different population groups. This is a useful and supportive text for trainees and experienced therapists alike.’Dr Gail Simon, Systemic Psychotherapist, The Pink Practice, UK

• Part 1: The essence of GSRD therapy Chapter 1: What is Gender, Sex, and Relationship Diversity Therapy? (Antonio Prunas) Chapter 2: What do GSRD therapists do? (Dominic Davies) Chapter 3: Key elements of GSRD therapy (Silva Neves) Chapter 4: Obligatory, not optional, the development of the GSRD therapist (Agata Loewe-Kurilla) Part 2: Integrating GSRD therapy Chapter 5: Integrating GSRD Therapy - Exploration and affirmation: bridging the great divide (Paul Christopher Mollitt) Chapter 6: Staring at Shadows (Karen Pollock) Chapter 7: Distress directed towards our own Queer Bodies and Lives: A Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) informed approach to clinical work with people who identify as GSRD (Dr James Lea & Dr Brendan J Dunlop) Chapter 8: A figure of the affirmed self: Gestalt and GSRD Therapy meet (Daniel Bąk) Chapter 9: Internal Family Systems (IFS) to support GSRD people dealing with body image difficulties (Alessio Rizzo) Chapter 10: Biopsychosocial – and mysterious! A Queer Jungian perspective on the meaning of GSRD (George Taxidis) Chapter 11: Mentalising Internalised Stigma (Wilson Gallego Hoyos) Chapter 12: Mirror Ball Encounters. Group therapy with GSRD Communities (Niki D and Tim Foskett) Chapter 13: Decolonising the Vision of Wellbeing in Emotional Psychosexual and Relational Health for GSRD Clients (Rima Hawkins) Part 3: Special interests in GSRD therapy Chapter 14: Working with LGBTQ+ youth (Cat Johnston and Maria Kindstedt) Chapter 15: The Spectrum of Family: Navigating the Challenges and Triumphs of Queer Parenting (Daniel Morrison) Chapter 16: Queer Spirituality in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Matthew Cormack) Chapter 17: Queer Aging and Endings (Christian Schulz-Quach & Margo Kennedy)