Ryan Campinho Valadas

Therapist Directory Listing Category: Sex- and sexuality-related practitioners

About the Therapist

About the therapist:

I work as an individual, couples, and group therapist, and have worked with substance misuse, sexual health, LGBTQIA + wellbeing, general adult mental health, and children’s mental health within education. This has given me a well-rounded understanding of a person’s lifespan, as well as the importance of relationships in our lives.

My therapeutic work is based upon building healthier connections to identity, pleasure, relationships, and life journeys.

I focus on supporting individual clients and diverse types of relationships around:

- Improving communication

- Understanding and challenging the influence of social and cultural narratives

- Healing from sexual shame

- Recovering from sexual trauma

- Sexual wellbeing and pleasure

- Consensual non-monogamy

- Diverse sexual and gender identities

- Parenting LGBTQ+ children and young people

Sexual identity:

Gender identity: Male

Gender history: As assigned at birth

Non-monogamy: Yes

Intersex: No

Neurodivergent: No

Personal pronouns: He/Him

Qualifications - Links to websites:

Postgraduate Diploma: Integrative Psychosexual Therapy, COSRT: https://www.cosrt.org.uk/members-2/ryan-valadas/

Qualifications - Additional:

Award	Awarding body	Year of award

Experience and approach:

I first trained and qualified in Dramatherapy in 2015, which means that I learned psychotherapy through the prism of metaphor, active imagination, and creative expression. In the past few years, I have worked in a systemic therapy model, which is about understanding individuals in relationship with others, rather than in isolation. It seeks to identify deeply entrenched patterns within an individual's relationships and within groups. I have recently concluded a specialisation in psychosexual therapy, which takes a holistic approach to our personal relationship to sex and sexuality, as well as to our sexual and romantic relationships with others.

Relationship styles: