Queering Psychotherapy Karnac (2022)
Edited by J. Chance Czyzselska

LGBTIQ+ people are more likely than cisgender and heterosexual individuals to suffer with mental health issues, yet often have poorer therapeutic outcomes. Mainstream Eurocentric psychotherapeutic theories, developed largely by heterosexual, cisgender and white theorists, tend to see LGBTIQ+ as a singular group through this “othered” lens. Despite the undeniable value offered by many of these theories, they and those who use them – queer therapists included – can often pathologize and misunderstand the diversity of queer experience. In this volume, editor and psychotherapist Jane C. Czyzselska speaks with practitioners and clients from diverse modalities and lived experiences, exploring and rethinking some of the unique challenges encountered in a world that continues to marginalize queer lives.

The truth that’s denied: Psychotherapy with LGBTIQ+ clients who identify as Intersex (2021)
Psychology of Sexualities Review Vol 12 Issue 1
J. Chance. Czyzselska

There is an absence of literature about people with variations in sex characteristics in the UK. This leaves therapists ignorant of this client group. Since 2013, normalising genital surgery performed on babies born with developmental differences has been described as a human rights violation, and the psychosocial justifications for this surgery is now contested. This paper expands awareness so that psychotherapists will be better informed about the damage, both psychological and physical, which results from the pathologisation of those with what is also referred to as ‘intersex’ variations. Further it identifies how therapists can support this group.