About me
I am Beck Thom. I am a queer intimacy facilitator. I love helping people work and play towards greater intimacy, pleasure, joy and connection through my one to one, relationship and community practice.
What kind of person am I?
What did I do? (Training)
- Youth Work diploma
- Social Work BA Hons
- Certification in Sexological Bodywork
- Trauma training for Bodyworkers
- Sharon Wheeler’s ScarWork®
- Holistic Body Massage Diploma
- Anatomy and Physiology Diploma
- Betty Martin Wheel of Consent practitioners training
- Counselling Skills certificate, plus many therapeutic trainings
I have experience in:
- Parenting
- Specialist youth work (LGBT and mental health/self-harm)
- Therapeutic Social Work (5 years), including issues with early childhood sexuality and inappropriate sexual behaviour
- 4 years working independently as a Sexological Bodyworker, Somatic Sex Educator and Sex Coach
- Being coached and attending therapy
- Being a work in progress myself!
- Being neurodiverse (ADHD)
- Working with disabled clients around rights to sex and pleasure
What am I passionate about and what are my values?
- Sexology through a queer lens
- Queer, sex positive community
- Healing and holistic wellbeing
- Justice and equality
- Holding space for people who struggle to find space in this world
- Critical thinking
- Development of self and community
- Embodiment for health and pleasure
- Pleasure activism
- Holding many complexities, realities, and meanings at one time
- Compassion and kindness
- Concern for the planet and ecology
- Sex Worker friendly
So, if you come and work with me, I bring to our connection and time together all of what I have learnt in my 40 odd years of life and work experience, and my collaborative spirit to explore the realms of your body, relationships, sexuality and pleasure.
