COSRT’s Board of Trustees are mindful that terminology plays a crucial role in effective therapeutic practice. Diagnostic language shapes how conditions, symptoms, and experiences are understood. Terms may evolve through research, be debated, overlap in meaning, be used inconsistently or…
Each year we invite people from inside and outside COSRT to apply to be Trustees. Now we are opening that process again for 2025. Trustees are important parts of our organisation. They oversee governance of our charity, set the direction…
We’re excited to be offering a training on Chronic Pelvic Pain in Men: Tools and Insights from Occupational Therapy this September. This session responds directly to a gap identified by Jo Coker AccCOSRT(Sen) AccCOSRT (Sup) MBPsS FCOSRT Counselling Psychologist and…
By Amanda Hall, AccCOSRT. What is it? Sexual dysfunction is a well-known possible side effect of many anti-depressants and it is widely assumed that this resolves when they are discontinued. However, since the formal recognition of Post SSRI Sexual Dysfunction…
COSRT is clear. Psychosexual and Relationship Therapy is a specialised form of talking therapy. It never involves touch. Yet a recently launched Channel 4 TV programme – Virgin Island – includes people described as “sex therapists” touching participants in sexualised…
In conversation with Carl Mojta, we aim to explore the key insights of working with problematic sexual behaviour by integrating Internal Family Systems (IFS) with the Out of Control Sexual Behaviour (OCSB) pathway model. Carl Mojta and Peg Hurley Dawson…