Main description:

In 2017 the global #MeToo movement burst through the conspiracy of silence around women's experience of sexual abuse and violence. Since then, other groups have found the courage to declare that they too have experienced sexual abuse and are unafraid and unashamed to let it be known. Now this ground-breaking book provides a space for counsellors and psychotherapists - more often the listeners - to tell their own stories, sometimes for the first time. Each chapter is written by a counsellor, psychotherapist or therapy client and followed up with an exploratory dialogue between writer and peer. Together the contributions form a community of #TherapistsToo voices, brought together in the hope that readers within and beyond the counselling and psychotherapy realm will feel less alone and more connected. This is a book for anyone wanting to understand the ubiquity of sexual violence and sexual abuse. It's about how to respond, support, raise awareness, campaign and be part of creating a culture that says #TimesUp!

Contents:

Foreword - Kim Etherington, Preface, Introduction, 1. Retribution - Seb Randall, with Celia Urbach, 2. 'Survivors are everywhere': our #MeToo, #WeToo journey - Kaur, with Deborah A Lee, 3. Lighthouses, rocky shores and safe harbours - Concetta Perot, with Clarinda Cuppage, 4. How we talk to girls about 'sex' - Taylor Broughton, with Sarah J Wilson, 5. Sexual abuse and surviving with(in) psychology - Jemma Tosh, with Fionnuala Dempsey, 6. Therapists' lived experience in counselling and psychotherapy training - Liz Smith and SaraTeresa Mollis, 7. Survivors of sexual violence training as psychotherapists in the UK - Deborah A Lee, with Peggy, Sam and Phoenix, 8. #MeToo on the internet - Tara Shennan, with Haley Clifford, 9. Reconnection through dance movement psychotherapy - Amanda Light, with Tina Johnson, 10. Shattering the sounds of silence - Reena Shah, with Clarinda Cuppage, 11. While I was sleeping - Andrew Pari, with Katy Woodger, 12. '#WeToo': groupwork as an act of solidarity and resistance - Leah Salter, with Emily Jacob, 13. Pushing, pulling and parts coming together - Joy Farrimond, with Emma Palmer, 14. Dirty secrets, ecocide and the specialness of the world all around - Emma Palmer, with Charleen Agostini, Poem - #MeToo by Clare Shaw