The Counselling Services offer talking therapies which are designed to assist men who have sex with men:
- Identify their risk factors for unsafe sex;
- Reflect on the issues and challenges in practising safer sex;
- Set goals and plan and implement strategies for reducing or eliminating risk.
This service is open to all men who have sex with men regardless of HIV status who have concerns with adopting or maintaining safer sex and HIV risk reduction behaviour.
All men entering the Counselling Service will be offered a confidential assessment, and through a process of discussion will be able to identify the most appropriate talking therapy for them. These include:
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Peer mentoring
- Sexual health counselling
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The Mentor Support Program is a programme for people who place themselves at risk of HIV infection despite having knowledge of safe sexual behaviour and an expressed desire to put it into practice.
The program is an HIV prevention strategy that looks at the background reasons that may be preventing someone from successfully keeping himself safe from infection. Thus the Mentor Support Program may help you discover why this is and give you some strategies to help bring your behaviour in line with your desire to play safe.
How does it work?
The Mentor Support Program pairs gay and bisexual men who want to stop placing themselves at risk of HIV infection with trained volunteer mentors who will help them work through a series of 9 modules that looks at the emotional side of safe sex.
What would be required of me?
The program consists of 9 fortnightly mentoring sessions of an average of 2½ hours in length. |
