Henry Strick van Linschoten - The place of kink in psychotherapy and counselling training
Channel: Dominic Davies
Date: 2015-05-15

The presentation will be interactive, and about psychotherapy training, not kink. Focus: how kink should be included.
Kink / BDSM is defined as any affirmatively consensual forms of sexuality, however specialised. (Body - bodies - mind - physical objects / effects - forms of relating.) Society defines the boundaries to legality and to the ability to give consent.
The proposed training would include:
- An overview of kink
- Consent and affirmative consent
- Riskiness, violence, objectification, power
- Boundaries to kink (law, religions, feminism, medicine, psychology)
- Difficulties caused by conflicting views of boundaries and legality 
Resources: http://www.pinktherapy.com/Portals/0/CourseResources/Kink_in_psychotherapy_training_sources.pdf 

Henry Strick van Linschoten is a psychotherapist, writer, researcher and consultant. As psychotherapist he is based in London and on Skype, and specialises in relationships, anxiety, trauma, ‘difficult’ emotional, dissociative and somatic problems, and sexuality. He is LGBTQ+ / GSD-friendly, and kink- and poly-aware. He has worked in the NHS and done forensic psychotherapy. Website: www.henrystrick.com. Twitter: @henrystrick.