Resources & links

 

We hope you find these resources and links useful. Feel free to discuss them with any of the professional LGBTQ+ -affirmative counsellors, psychotherapists and coaches listed in our Directory. 

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For people who are experiencing a crisis and need to talk to someone now, during or out of office hours, contact your local NHS mental health services, GP or the Samaritans or click here to find more links.

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Links​

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• Cognitive bias 

• Genderbread person 

• Hell yeah, self care!

• Letter of hope for people who are suicidal 

• Pride events in 2021

• Samaritans

• Tranzwiki

Books

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Susan Jeffer’s books:

• Dancing With Uncertainty 

• Dare to Connect

• Feel The Fear and Do It Anyway

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• Freedom From Your Inner Critic – Earley & Weiss

• Man’s Search For Meaning – Victor Frankl

• Messy: How to be creative & resilient in a tidy-minded world – Tim Harford

• The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle 

Documents

 

• Come As You Are Festival Panel Discussion ~ Max Cohen

• Good Practice across the Counselling Professions 001 Gender, Sexual, and Relationship Diversity (GSRD) BACP: Barker, M-J. (updated April 2019)

• Home Office guidance relating to LGBT+ Domestic Abuse ~ Max Cohen

• Kind Mind Poster presentation at the Compassionate Mind Foundation National Conference ~ Max Cohen

• LGBT+ counselling student's experiences Surveyed for the BACP/ CPCAB Diversity Symposium 2019 ~ Tina Hill-Art

• LGB&T Mental Health - Risk and Resilience Report 

• LGBT National Survey 2017

• LGBT Action Plan 2018: Improving the Lives of LGBT people

• Model for working with 'difference' identity integration 2016 ~ Tina Hill-Art 

Organisations​

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• AKT (LGBTQ+ youth homelessness)

• British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)

• Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD)

• Compassionate Mind Foundation 

• Counsellors Cafe - counsellors' magazine

• Eddystone Trust

• Family support for LGBTQ+ people (FFLAG)

• Feel The Fear and Do It Anyway

• Galop - LGBT+ anti violence charity

• Gender Identity Clinics - NHS

• Gender Construction Kit - gender identity resources 

• Intercom Trust - LGBT+ charity in South West

• LGBT Consortium

• LGBT+ health & wellbeing guide from US site Drugwatch

• Mermaids - support for trans+ young people 

• My Umbrella - guide to gender identities

• Pink Therapy

• Proud2Be

• Safe Lives - domestic abuse

• Safety On-line 

• Sexual Assault Referral Centre, Exeter

• Studio One - therapy rooms

• The Laurels, Exeter (Gender Identity Clinic)

• The Practice Rooms, Exeter

• Trans Actual - reliable info about trans people

• Trevor Project - US LGBTQ suicide prevention

• Victim Care Unit

Audios

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• Max' mindful breathing exercise (6 mins 44 secs)

• Letter of hope for people who are suicidal (DPT)​

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