Counselling Training and Supervision
For individuals and organizations
Our training is informed by our lived experiences as gay men, by our community based research experience, and by our various counselling work, and by our experience providing training and supervision to AIDS service and men's health organizations across Canada.
Needs Assessment
We will work with you to determine your training and supervision needs.
We move trainees along a competence path:
Unconscious incompetence
Conscious incompetence
Conscious competence
Unconscious competence
Debriefs
We note the high burnout rate in the helping professions, and high staff turnover in support organizations.
We integrate debriefs for our trainees about:
client content
trainee skills
trainee processes
trainee content
Ongoing debriefs can decrease stress and burnout associated with providing counselling.
Let's chat about your counselling training needs
Set up a chat with us to learn more about our approach to providing quality counselling for workers who have gay men clients.
We can help you deliver evidence based counselling with confidence and competence.
Published GPS Research
Hart, T., Noor, S., Skakoon-Sparling, S., Lazkani, S., Gardner, S., & Leahy, B. et al. (2020). GPS: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Sexual Health Counseling for Gay and Bisexual Men Living With HIV. Behavior Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2020.04.005
Hart, T., Stratton, N., Coleman, T., Wilson, H., Simpson, S., & Julien, R. et al. (2016). A Pilot Trial of a Sexual Health Counseling Intervention for HIV-Positive Gay and Bisexual Men Who Report Anal Sex without Condoms. PLOS ONE, 11(4), e0152762. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152762
Hart, T., Willis, A., Simpson, S., Julien, R., Hoe, D., & Leahy, B. et al. (2016). Gay Poz Sex: A Sexual Health Promotion Intervention for HIV-Positive Gay and Bisexual Men. Cognitive And Behavioral Practice, 23(4), 517-529. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpra.2015.11.002