Queering Psychotherapy Gathering

When I was studying to be a counsellor and then psychotherapist, I would have loved to have been accompanied by a book which offered a sense of eavesdropping on the most fascinating queer clinicians, and which reflected the dynamic nature of the therapeutic relationship. How might a collection of conversations in book form mirror and support some of the kinds of conversations or reflections we have both with clients and between peers and supervisors? Such conversations we know can be life-shaping and world-changing, as well as modelling of the queer and decolonizing philosophies that underpin this book which reject the notion of the therapeutic ‘expert’, drawn as it is from what Robert Downes calls ‘Empire Mind’. So, the conversing subjects of this book have a range of professional, lived and reflective experiences to offer and share and their insights refashion the limitations of the way we are taught about each…