Continuing Education

Exploring Sexuality & Gender in The Therapeutic Situation

This online workshop offers an initial inquiry to explore how sexuality and gender emerge and are experienced within the therapeutic situation—not merely as identity categories or narratives, but as embodied field phenomena that arise in the shared relational space co-created between therapist and client.
Together, we will aesthetically inquire, immerse in some experiential exercise and dialogue, to explore how a field-centred, embodied approach allows us to engage more ethically, responsively, and creatively with sexuality and gender in the therapeutic space.
This workshop supports Gestalt psychotherapists in cultivating a deeper aesthetic sensitivity to lived experience and the co-emerging, animating body—particularly when engaging at the margins of normative gender and sexual identities. It invites a stance grounded in wonder over curiosity, humility over certainty, and co-emergence rather than directionality.

Registration closes March 2, 2026.

Date: Monday, March 9, 2026
Times: 9:00AM - 3:00PM
Fee: GIT Student/Alumni Fee: $225 | Regular Registrant Fee: $260

Instructor

Billy Desmond, MBA, DIP Gestalt, MSc Gestalt, PCCert Supervision

Billy is a queer cis gender white Irish man, living between the rural West of Ireland and London, England. He works as a Gestalt psychotherapist, supervisor, and dialogical educator with a particular research interest in embodied ways of knowing in groups and diverse relational dynamics within the LGBTQI community. He is Director of Gestalt Institute of Ireland and faculty lead on the MA in Gestalt Psychotherapy, guest faculty at Gestalt training institutes, certified trainer of Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy. He is on the editorial board of Gestalt Therapy Book Series and the Gestalt Review. He has regularly presented at international conferences and publishes journal papers and book chapters on a variety of topics.

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