Relationally Queer

<p><em>Relationally Queer</em> explores diverse intimate relationship styles and the connections with self for clinicians interested in gender, sex and relationship diversity.</p><p>Offering readers a more inclusive and queer-friendly way of thinking about relationships, the book covers a range of topics that include intersectionality, consensual non-monogamy, working with shame, intimate partner violence, religious identities, and living with HIV. Exploring beyond a Eurocentric perspective, the book features a chapter on African-centred therapy and also includes the relationships of often erased populations such as bisexual people, sex workers, people with chronic health issues and trans people.</p><p>The book will help psychosexual and relationship therapists, counsellors and psychologists who work with clients of diverse genders, sexualities and relationships.</p> <p>Introduction 1. Getting real about monogamism: Disrupting mononormative bias in sex therapy and relationship counselling 2. Loving Freedom (beyond monogamy- opening up a dyad) 3. Common Presenting Issues in Consensual Non-Monogamy 4. When Sex, Health & Stigman Collide: Counselling People who Sex Work (and their partners) 5. The Trans Compass: A way of hearing and understanding trans people's relationships with their identities 6. Working with Bi+ Clients: Considerations for Individual and Relationship Therapy 7. Sankofa's Quest: Cultivating Queer, African-centred, homecomings through intersectionality in therapy 8. Working with Intimate Partner Violence in GSRD Intimate Relationships 9. Exploring the impact of a religious background or identity on LGBTQ people 10. Chronic Health Issues, Disability and Queer People 11. The impact of Antiretroviral Therapies and PrEP on Gay Men 12. GSRD-Affirmative Supervision of Psychotherapy 13. Living and Working within our Communities Conclusion</p>