Diversity and identity are central to how we live our lives and everyone needs to find their preferred way of living, laughing, and loving, so LGBT+ rights and ways of being are very important.
Our biological sex is mostly determined at birth, but gender issues have the potential to adversely reflect potential conflict between the ways in which we identify with our sexuality, typically with societal disapproval of LGBT which is more pronounced in some regions of the world than others where tolerance may be the norm. Not everyone has XX or XY chromosomes. Not everyone feels comfortable about same-sex relationships, and that may be an issue derived from religious intolerance or just sheer prejudice and ignorance. Developing awareness of strategies for building resilient mind sets that better help with coping strategies can themselves be developed to enable you blossom, thrive and flourish as a person, irrespective of the intolerance of others.
I have been working with the LGBT community for the past 15 years within both the NHS (56 Dean Street & the Steve Retson Project) and the charity sector; including organisations such as London Friend and The Helios Foundation.
Psychologist, Doctorate in Psychology, DPsych, MSc with Distinction, BSc First Class Honours.
Identity is of particular interest to me. Sexual and gender identity have formed a core of my practice for many years, working closely with the LGBTQI+ community.