ABSTRACT

Relationally Queer explores diverse intimate relationship styles and the connections with self for clinicians interested in gender, sex and relationship diversity.

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.

The book will help psychosexual and relationship therapists, counsellors and psychologists who work with clients of diverse genders, sexualities and relationships.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter Chapter 1|19 pages

Getting real about monogamism

Disrupting mononormative bias in sex therapy and relationship counselling

chapter Chapter 3|17 pages

Common presenting issues in consensual non-monogamy

chapter Chapter 4|16 pages

When sex, health and stigma collide

Counselling people who sex work (and their partners)

chapter Chapter 5|13 pages

The trans compass

A way of hearing and understanding trans people's relationships with their identities

chapter Chapter 6|20 pages

Working with bi+ clients

Considerations for individual and relationship therapy

chapter Chapter 12|18 pages

GSRD-affirmative supervision of psychotherapy

chapter Chapter 13|24 pages

Living and working within our communities

chapter |2 pages

Conclusion