A conversation about Pornography use, demographics, and impact from child to adult. Why the current use of this media needs to be in almost every therapists’ room, why the taboo needs to become the norm. Why different client groups need a permission and how to talk about this subject to your clients, whether they be child, adolescent, or adult.
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Human Behaviour Technologist. Psychotherapist and Researcher
Cath is a Clinical Doctoral Researcher, Online Harms and Cybertrauma Consultant, Public Speaker, Author of 6 books (5 to date with Routledge), an Educator and TEDx Speaker. She is a Child/Adult Trauma Psychotherapist in private practice. She works with global and national organisations regarding child sexual abuse material and how to prevent cybertrauma burnout in those roles. She works with global organisations consulting on Mental health and Immersive Technologies (MHVR) and the harms that can occur in the new digital spaces (XRSI). She writes about and works with Cybertrauma, which is any trauma that occurs through an internet-ready device or medium. She also educates therapists and practitioners via her company name Privacy4 about Data protection/privacy/cybersecurity issues in relation to their practice. She disrupts and advocates for children’s rights, privacy, and online digital explorations. Catherine is also the mental health advisor for Gamers Beat Cancer charity.
She uses gaming in therapeutic situations, coaching, trauma psychotherapy and for getting the best from yourself. She has been using biofeedback/tech and gaming to elicit Post Traumatic Growth, healing and flow for over a decade.
Her books include Cybertrauma: the Darker side of the Internet; Children, Technology and Healthy Development, Children and Sexual-Based Online Harms, Cybertrauma and Online Harms, and Data Protection and Cybersecurity for Practitioners and the newest one forms part of the BPS Ask the expert series.
I am a PhD researcher, currently exploring shame. As a Psychosexual Therapist, I have a busy private practice with a special interest in porn and sex addiction. I have over 20 years experience of working with people therapeutically, usually finding myself discussing the most taboo of subjects. I’m a keen advocate for accurate, timely sex education.
