Chemsex: What it is and how to work with it | panel discussion
This session will be held in a round table style. Host, Chloe Gosiewski will be joined by two experts in this field: Katie Evans and Marco Cortez.
Attendees can expect to hear our experts answer the following questions:
What is chemsex?
Who is likely to experience this?
What are the causes?
When does it become a problem?
What are some tips on safe use?
How can you work with this issue? Tips and tools.
We will then open the floor for a Q&A, which will allow you to ask any questions and address any challenges around working with Chemsex.
This session will be recorded.
Meet the panellists
Katie Evans
Katie Evans is a private practice therapist specialising in gender, sexuality, addiction, abuse and trauma. After working as the therapist for AfterParty Service, an LGBTQ+ addiction service, she began building her knowledge on how to provide the best support for those clients engaging in chemsex. From here she continued to actively engage with the community, working closely with David Stuart of 56 Dean Street, providing their trauma training and speaking at various events across Europe including The Chemsex Forum and HIV Im Dialog. She has taught about sexuality and drug use at institutions including The NHS, The Maudsley, British Psychological Society, John Moores University, and City and Islington College. In 2018 she was commissioned by HMPPS to write the world’s first chemsex specific recovery and rehabilitation toolkit which is used within the legal justice system.
Marco Cortez
Marco is a psychotherapist, counsellor, supervisor and coach with more than 20 years’ experience in the addiction field in London and abroad. He provides online and in-person sessions at his central London practice in Regent Street, W1B 5TF.
Marco has also been the psychosocial therapy manager of an addiction charity in the third sector for the last 10 years. His areas of expertise are addiction, anxiety, depression, stress, burnt out and ME disease.