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How can we best support clients with issues related to Gender, Sexual and Relationship Diversity? How can we ensure that therapy doesn’t overlook guilt and shame – or foreclose pleasure and pride? Continuing her blog series, psychosexual therapist, supervisor and author Cate Campbell discusses some common client concerns relating to sexual identity, shares some helpful interventions, and emphasises the continued relevance of such learning when working with straight, cisgender clients.

Curiosity is an invaluable therapist tool. But it also has a shadow side. As therapist and sex educator Lucie Fielding explains, trans and gender expansive people are only the latest to experience invasive and objectifying questioning in the guise of clinical curiosity – especially when it comes to sex and bodies. Here, the author of Trans Sex proposes a new curiosity framework to benefit all clients, and shares three principles for practising with ‘ethical curiosity’.