From Tradition to Fluidity: working well with relationship diversity

Presenter: Niki D

Understanding of self as dynamic, ever-changing and always relational is central to existential thought. This presents existential therapists – and others who work with relationship issues – with the robust challenge of remaining fluid and receptive to their client’s relational shifts, changes in the therapeutic relationship, and within therapists themselves. It will address the following key questions (and more):

Can therapists adapt to the changing socio-cultural landscape and the increasingly fluid relationship structures that many of our clients are living in? 

Are therapists who hold mainstream values and beliefs about relationships at risk of imposing normative beliefs, standards, and expectations onto their more flexible and diverse clients?

How do we adapt existing narrow therapeutic frames in relationship therapy to meet the unique requirements of multi-partnered relationship constellations? 

About the presenter

Based in London, UK, Niki D is an existential psychotherapist and supervisor with thirty years of experience in private practice, statutory and voluntary sectors. She runs supervision groups and therapy groups. As a relationship therapist, Niki works exclusively with GSRD clients (gender, sexual, and relationship diverse) and, as a clinical associate of Pink Therapy, she teaches the online module on GSRD relationships. Niki has an MA in Existential Psychotherapy and additional training in GSRD therapy and somatic body therapy. She is a visiting lecturer at Regents University, London. 

This event counts as 12 hours of category A CPD.

For full details regarding the event please go to the website.