Working with Gender, Sexual and Relationship Diversity (GSRD) calls for a sensitivity and respect towards differences between people, their choices and how they feel and identify.

People have not made lifestyle choices about who they are in terms of their gender or sexuality, and today more than ever before there is much fluidity and transparency and looking beyond birth assignment of either. 

I do not pathologise ‘difference’ and being an ‘affirmative’ counsellor does not mean I help somebody to be the sexuality or gender they identify being,  but that I have a knowledge and respect of GSRD issues, equal opportunities, being a human being and a person in one’s own right and an understanding of what individuals in minority groups may have experienced.