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Dominic Davies (born, 3rd November, 1956) is the British author, academic, psychotherapist, pioneer HiV activist and sex therapist, and founder and CEO of Pink Therapy.

Early Life
Davies was born in 1959 to a working-class family and grew up on a council housing estate in Crawley. He was educated at Thomas Bennett Comprehensive School, which was at the time, the largest comprehensive in the UK. At 21 Davies trained at what was then Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University) as a Community and Youth Worker and specialised in placements in the field of youth counselling. Aftergraduation, he volunteered as a counsellor at the Leicester Counselling Centre and was offered a training practicum as a trainee University Student Counsellor at Leicester University under the supervision of Professor Michael Jacobs

HiV Aids Activism
Dominic Davies was the first person appointed by a Regional Health Authority (Merseyside) to spearhead their response to HIV/AIDS in 1986. In 1987, after a study trip to see pioneering AIDS organisations in New York and San Francisco, where he was trained by Shanti as an Emotional Support volunteer (Buddy) he developed the first training course for HIV buddies throughout Merseyside and Manchester. He also pioneered sexual outreach through taking Eroticising Safer Sex workshops to gay bars in Liverpool. This was one of the earliest examples of HIV public edication campaigns being taken into gay social life. in 1988 He trained staff at Park Lane and Moss Side Special (Forensic Secure) Hospitals in caring for people with AIDS.

Career
In 1989, Dominic moved back into Student Counselling at Nottinhgam University, where he worked for six years, before leaving to take a Senior Lectureship in Counselling and Psychotherapy from Nottingham Trent University. In 1996 he had his first book published. Co-edited with Charles Neal Pink Therapy, was the first British textbook on working with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients. In 1999, Dominic left his post at Nottingham Trent University for a study tour of Australia and New Zealand, travelling with his partner the artist Lee Adams. Dominic offered consultancy and training to various State and local groups on matters of sexuality, sexual identity and disabled people's sexuality, which was the subject of his second Book The Sexual Politics of Disability co-written with Tom Shakespeare and Kath Gillespie Sells. Whilst in Australasia, Dominic completed the writing and editing (with Charles Neal) of two more books in the Pink Therapy series.

He was awarded a BACP Fellowship for “distinguished contribution to the field” in October 2007 and resigned from the BACP in 2016

Davies is a Fellow of the National Counselling Society and in 2018 recieved a lifetime achievement award from the Sexual Freedom Awards s

In August 2018 Davies was nominated for a National Diversity Award for Lifetime Achievement

Books:
Davies, D and Neal, C. (eds.) (1996). Pink Therapy: a guide for counsellors and therapists working with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients. Buckingham: Open University Press.

Shakespeare, T., Gillespie-Sells, K., and Davies, D. (1996). The Sexual Politics of Disability: untold desires. London: Cassell.

Davies, D and Neal, C. (eds.) (2000) Therapeutic Perspectives on Working with Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Clients. (Pink Therapy Vol. 2) Buckingham: Open University Press.

Neal, C. and Davies, D. (eds.) (2000) Issues in Therapy with Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Clients. (Pink Therapy Vol. 3) Buckingham: Open University Press.

Journals:
Davies, D. (1998). The six necessary and sufficient conditions applied to working with lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients. The Person-Centered Journal, 5 (2), 111-124.

Davies, D. (2000) Sharing Our Stories, Empowering Our Lives: Don’t Dis Me! Sexuality and Disability 18 (3) 179-186.

Davies, D. (2000) Sex and Relationship Facilitation Project for People with Disabilities. Sexuality and Disability 18 (3) 187-194.

Davies, D. (2001) Review of Person-Centred Therapy Today by D. Mearns and B. Thorne. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling 29 (3), 351-352

Davies, D. and Neal, C. (eds) Special Edition on Pink Therapy Self & Society 33 (3) Nov 2005 Guest Editors Davies, D. (2007) Not in Front of the Students Therapy Today Vol 18 (1) http://www.therapytoday.net/article/show/ 1573/not-in-front-of-the-students/

Davies, D and Barker, M J (2015) Gender and Sexual Diversity: respecting difference. The Psychotherapist (60) https://issuu.com/ukcp-publications/docs/the_psychotherapist_summer_2015_low/16

Davies, D and Barker, M J (2015) How gender and sexually diverse-friendly is your therapy training. The Psychotherapist (61) https://issuu.com/ukcp-publications/docs/61_the_psychotherapist_autumn_2015/8 Chapters in books: Davies, D. (1995) Gay Men and Lesbians. In M. Jacobs (ed.) The Care Guide: a handbook for the caring professions and other agencies. London: Cassell.

Davies, D. (1995) AIDS/HIV. In M. Jacobs (ed.) The Care Guide: a handbook for the caring professions and other agencies. London: Cassell.

Davies, D. and Neal, C (1996) An historical overview of homosexuality and therapy. In D. Davies & C. Neal (eds.) Pink Therapy: a guide for counsellors and therapists working with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients. Buckingham: Open University Press.

Davies, D. (1996) Towards a model of gay affirmative therapy. In D. Davies & C. Neal (eds.) Pink Therapy: a guide for counsellors and therapists working with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients. Buckingham: Open University Press.

Davies, D. (1996) Homophobia and heterosexism. In D. Davies & C. Neal (eds.) Pink Therapy: a guide for counsellors and therapists working with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients. Buckingham: Open University Press.

Davies, D. (1996) Working with people coming out. In D. Davies & C. Neal (eds.) Pink Therapy: a guide for counsellors and therapists working with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients. Buckingham: Open University Press.

Davies, D. (1996) Working with young people. In D. Davies & C. Neal (eds.) Pink Therapy: a guide for counsellors and therapists working with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients. Buckingham: Open University Press.

Davies, D. (2000) Person-Centred Therapy. In D. Davies and C. Neal (eds.) Therapeutic Perspectives on Working with Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Clients. Buckingham: Open University Press.

Gabriel, L and Davies, D. (2000) The Management of Ethical Dilemmas Associated with Dual Relationships. In C. Neal and D. Davies (eds) Issues in Therapy with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Clients Buckingham: Open University Press.

Davies, D. (2000) Sexual Orientation. In C. Feltham and I. Horton (eds.) The handbook of counselling and psychotherapy. London: Sage.

Davies, D. (2001) Unchained Melody. In J. Baker (ed.) Sex Tips From Men Who Ride the Sexual Frontier. London: Fusion Press.

Davies, D. (2002) Unchained Melody. In J. Baker (ed.) Riding the Sexual Frontier: all you ever wanted to know about men and sex. Sydney: HarperCollins Publishers.

Davies, D and Aykroyd, M (2002) Sexual Orientation and Psychological Contact. In Gill Wyatt and Pete Sanders,

Rogers’ Therapeutic Conditions: Evolution, theory and practice – Volume 4: Contact and Perception. Ross-on- Wye: PCCS BooksWeirdghoul (talk) 14:02, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Pink Therapy
Since then he has continued to contribute to the field of counselling and therapy through his writing and developed the first substantive training in working with Gender,Sexual and Relationship Diverse clients and through running the Pink Therapy conference[2] an annual event and an opportunity for therapists from across the world to reflect on GSRD therapy issues.

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