Post Graduate Certificate in Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy

The training will be delivered online via Zoom.

Block 1: Monday to Wednesday 3-5 February 2025, 9.30-16.30 hrs, via zoom
Block 2: Monday to Wednesday 3-5 March 2025, 9.30-16.30 hrs, via zoom

Judi Keshet-Orr, Jean Miller, Diane Hassall, Asst Prof Marieke DeWitte, Dr Ben Davis, Dr. Nisha Shah

Judi Keshet-Orr
Judi is a Consultant Psychosexual & Relationship Psychotherapist *. She has over 40 years of clinical, teaching, mentoring and supervisory experience and has been awarded Fellowship of both COSRT and the National Council of Psychotherapists.
Following a career in social work and as a joint investigation training officer for statutory and non statutory agencies Judi trained as a psychotherapist, group psychotherapist and facilitator. Her initial training in psychotherapy was at the University of Surrey with John Heron and James Kilty. Judi originally trained as a psychosexual and relationship psychotherapist at St. George’s Hospital, London. She has also trained in Family Mediation.

Judi was the first person in the UK to be awarded an MSc in Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy. She is also one of the few people in the UK to hold the European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Judi holds UKCP accreditation and is a Senior Accredited Member of COSRT as well as holding COSRT supervisor recognition. Judi was awarded Fellowship status with the National Counselling Society (NCS) in 2014.

Alongside Anita Sullivan, Judi has provided a variety of short and long training events for over 25 years both at undergraduate and post graduate levels. For five years Judi and Anita ran the highly successful London Diploma. From 2012 Bernd Leygraf has co-directed with Judi following Anita’s semi-retirement from the profession.

Judi has co-founded several successful organisations and training programmes, these include The Incest Intervention Project, CPPD, and the COSRT-approved course at the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust. With Bernd Leygraf she co-authored and led the MSc in Humanistic Psychotherapy and Psychosexual & Relationship Psychotherapy courses. She also co-authored and led the Master’s programmes at London’s South Bank and Middlesex Universities in psychotherapy and psychosexual therapy. For many years Judi was actively involved with BASRT (now COSRT) and AHPP (UKCP member organisations).

Judi has contributed to several academic journals, published a number of articles, spoken on radio and appeared on television both in the UK and overseas. She is a regular conference speaker and work shop facilitator in the UK and abroad whilst also maintaining links with a major international organisational development consultancy working in developing countries. Judi has recently had her work published and her book ‘In the Footsteps of the Fathers – psychosexual therapy with the Orthodox Jewish community – an overview from the therapists chair ‘ has been described as ‘a book written with respect and sensitivity and a fascinating read’.

Judi leads a busy private practice in London. For eight years she was the Clinical Director and Lead of Ealing Abbey Counselling Service, one of the largest counselling charities in London. Judi regularly teaches on the Advanced Diploma in Couples work on behalf of NAOS. Judi is also a co-founder of the Relationship Resolve conciliation and conflict resolution service.

Jean Miller
Jean Miller has over 20 years experience as a psychotherapist in private practice working with couples and individuals. She also trains therapists on a number of courses, with particular focus on couples work. Her work is founded in humanistic and integrative approaches to the field.

“In recognition of the way the demands of the profession have evolved and the increase in workload we have formally added to the directorate of LDPRT. We are delighted that Jean Miller has accepted our offer to move to Co-Director of the organisation from her former position of Associate Director.”
– Judi Keshet-Orr & Bernd Leygraf, July 2020

Jean has a substantial practice as a supervisor of counsellors and psychotherapists, as well as psychosexual and relationship therapists. She is the nominated psychosexual and relationship supervisor for Ealing Abbey Counselling Service.

Jean has been the Course Director of the London Foundation Certificate in Counselling and Psychotherapy since it began in 2014. Many students from the Foundation have subsequently trained on the LDPRT.

Having studied French and Italian, Jean originally worked for The British Council and the Youth Exchange Centre based there, for several years, in roles which encouraged cultural exchanges between young people in The UK and other countries. She still believes that an interest in literature and languages is a good basis for beginning psychotherapy training!

She worked as a Childline counsellor. She then trained at Regent’s College and The Whittington Hospital on an early version of the LDPRT and first gained BASRT (now COSRT) accreditation and UKCP registration in 2001. She is a Senior Accredited Member of COSRT and also BACP registered.

She has a Diploma, from Westminster Pastoral Foundation, in working with adolescents, from a psychodynamic perspective, and subsequently includes young adults and older teenagers in her private practice client base and integrates a psychodynamic understanding into her integrative approach.

In addition to her counselling and training, she has also trained as a family mediator, and now also works in conflict resolution specialising in family rifts.

Diane Hassall
Lecturer & Academic Resources Coordinator
Accredited Member, NCIP, Registered Member, COSRT

Di is an experienced integrative psychotherapist who specialises in relationship and psychosexual therapy.
Much of her work is with people exploring or wanting to commit to gender,sexual or relationship diversity (GSRD), including gender or sexual identity, gender transition, BDSM and kink, and polyamory, non-monogamy and other types of relationships. She also works with people intrans-cultural, -racial and -religious relationships.

She is a graduate of the London Diploma in Psychosexual and RelationshipTherapy (LDPRT).
Di leads a therapy practice, Your Time To Talk. She has previously worked with Relate, Mind, Ealing Abbey Counselling Service and the As You Are Therapy Centre in Brighton.
Di’s previous career was in HR, learning and development, communications and change management. People and relationships have always been her passion, so it was no surprise to those who know her when she became a psychotherapist!

Asst Prof Marieke Dewitte
Marieke Dewitte is a clinical psychologist-sexologist who had her training in Belgium and The Netherlands and completed her PhD at Ghent University. She currently works as assistant professor at the Department of Clinical Psychological Science of Maastricht, University. She teaches sexuality courses at several universities, post-academic sexology trainings, and sexual medicine schools, both nationally and internationally.

Marieke’s research involves psychophysiological studies on sexual arousal, interpersonal dynamics, dyadic interactions between partners, and attachment in relation to sexual responding. Her clinical (research) focus is on female genital pain. She also worked as sex therapist at Ghent University Hospital and at Maastricht University Hospital. She is editor-in-chief of the Dutch Journal of Sexology and Secretary General of the European Society of Sexual Medicine. She is involved in several special interest groups and international consultations on sexual dysfunction.

Dr Ben Davis
MA MBPhD MRCP MRCGP DFSRH DIPM FECSM
Dr Ben Davis is GP, sexual medicine specialist and in training as a COSRT sex and relationship therapist. He has a PhD focused on men’s sexual and emotional wellbeing in Mumbai, India. He completed further training in internal medicine and obstetrics and gynaecology before switching to General Practice.

Ben’s practice integrates biomedical and sex therapy approaches to sexual difficulties. He has particular expertise in testosterone deficiency diagnosis and treatment, and care of men with a history of anabolic steroid use.

Dr. Nisha Shah
Nisha was an NHS consultant psychiatrist from 2006-2018. She qualified in medicine from Cambridge University and worked in a variety of community and hospital settings, achieving MRCP in 1990. Her psychiatry training began in 1992, she attained MRCPsych in 1998 and she started in her first general adult consultant post in 2006.

She specialized in Perinatal and Psychosexual Psychiatry. In 2010 she set up and developed a small service providing mental health care to pregnant and post-natal women at the Whittington Hospital in North London. After 5 years she moved to lead a much larger service in Waltham Forest and Redbridge (NELFT). Her previous appointments include sessions at the Psychosexual Problems Clinic in Camden with Professor Michael King.

Nisha has extensive teaching experience including supervision of junior and senior psychiatric trainees and mentoring of psychiatric consultants. She has taught health professionals from medical students to midwives, and has been regularly involved in the training of GPs, psychiatrists and psychotherapists.

She is published in a range of areas.

Her interests include the ethics and philosophy of psychiatry (she holds an MA in Philosophy) and she has an Advanced Diploma in Family Focused Interventions and a Diploma in Integrative Psychosexual Therapy (UKAHPP). She combines her medical training and knowledge of pharmacological interventions with a broad understanding of a number of psychotherapeutic approaches including CBT, SFBT, mentalisation, mindfulness, psychodynamic and systemic approaches.

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£1400.00 payable in 2 instalments, one upon acceptance into the programme, £700.00, and the second £700.00 before 1st February 2025

Online, via Zoom