Professional Development Day - Erotic supervision on erotic transference and erotic counter-transference issues between therapists and clients 

Join Sally Openshaw for a Professional Development Day to widen your knowledge and normalise the presence of erotic material in the therapy room. 

Programme

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Timings Session
9.30am- 10.00am

Welcome and introductions- swimming pool of awareness 
10.00am – 11.00am

Module 1- Noticing and facing up. 

  • Themes to help you notice 
  • How to recognise an erotic pleasure and horror 
  • Risk assessment for both self and client 
  • Facing up to the reality of attraction in therapy
11.00am-11.15am  Break
11.15am- 12.15pm 

Module 2- Reflecting, processing and formulating meaning 

  • Becoming more aware of the impact 
  • Recognising the value of self-supervision or shared supervision 
  • Distinguish the types of erotic responses 
  • use of a developmental frame of reference 
  • Formulate what may be happening between you and them 
12.15pm- 12.45pm  Shared small group reflection on individual client experiences. Q&A session.
12.45pm- 13.45pm  Break 
13.45pm- 15.15pm 

Module 3: Disclosure and working for client benefit. 

  • Decision-making around disclosing 
  • Awareness of unhelpful avoidant behaviours 
  • Decision-making around benefit of disclosure to each client 
  • Skills to raise this between you and your client 
  • Fantasy- what is the role of this? 
15.15pm- 15.25pm  Break
15:25pm- 16.40pm 

Personal reflections using return to pool image

What next? Impact on my own practice

Further reading 
16:40pm  Event close

This programme is subject to change.

About the presenter

Sally Openshaw is a relationship therapist who specialises in sexual issues.  She is a senior accredited member and supervisor in COSRT (College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists) and is currently President of the International Integrative Psychotherapy Association.  Sally has always had a natural curiosity to explore spaces which are often avoided and this brought her to erotic transference and counter transference.  She has engaged many groups of practitioners to learn about this topic over the last 13 years and is now expanding this teaching to look at supervision and the support that is required in practice.  Feedback from previous teaching shows how engaged learners are in the content, how they value the clinical examples and the realness presented in the story telling.  Sally has recently reduced her clinical workload to provide more space to write a book about erotic transference and counter transference.