Silva Neves
@silvaneves.bsky.social
Award-winning psychosexual & relationship psychotherapist. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Author. Speaker. Media. AccCOSRT. UKCP.
Author. Speaker. Media. AccCOSRT. UKCP.
The LGBTQ+ people need allies!
It is poignant to be in the historic Stonewall Inn in New York City where Pride began with my aunt Laurence.
When I was a child, she was an amazing ally and kept me alive when I was horrendously bullied.
It is poignant to be in the historic Stonewall Inn in New York City where Pride began with my aunt Laurence.
When I was a child, she was an amazing ally and kept me alive when I was horrendously bullied.
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The LGBTQ+ people need allies!
It is poignant to be in the historic Stonewall Inn in New York City where Pride began with my aunt Laurence.
When I was a child, she was an amazing ally and kept me alive when I was horrendously bullied.
It is poignant to be in the historic Stonewall Inn in New York City where Pride began with my aunt Laurence.
When I was a child, she was an amazing ally and kept me alive when I was horrendously bullied.
I can’t be in New York City without visiting the Stonewall Inn 🏳️🌈
It is a historic place as it was where pride and the LGBTQ+ human right movements began.
It is a historic place as it was where pride and the LGBTQ+ human right movements began.
December 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I can’t be in New York City without visiting the Stonewall Inn 🏳️🌈
It is a historic place as it was where pride and the LGBTQ+ human right movements began.
It is a historic place as it was where pride and the LGBTQ+ human right movements began.
It was a pleasure to meet Ari Lewis while in New York City.
He’s the author of Intuitive Sexuality, a sex-positive model working with compulsive sexual behaviours.
He’s the author of Intuitive Sexuality, a sex-positive model working with compulsive sexual behaviours.
December 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
It was a pleasure to meet Ari Lewis while in New York City.
He’s the author of Intuitive Sexuality, a sex-positive model working with compulsive sexual behaviours.
He’s the author of Intuitive Sexuality, a sex-positive model working with compulsive sexual behaviours.
❤️❤️ Today is World AIDS Day ❤️❤️
Medicine has made so much progress in sexual health.
Yet, the societal stigma of living with HIV remains.
❤️ People living with HIV who are on medication have an undetectable viral load and cannot transmit the virus.
Medicine has made so much progress in sexual health.
Yet, the societal stigma of living with HIV remains.
❤️ People living with HIV who are on medication have an undetectable viral load and cannot transmit the virus.
December 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
❤️❤️ Today is World AIDS Day ❤️❤️
Medicine has made so much progress in sexual health.
Yet, the societal stigma of living with HIV remains.
❤️ People living with HIV who are on medication have an undetectable viral load and cannot transmit the virus.
Medicine has made so much progress in sexual health.
Yet, the societal stigma of living with HIV remains.
❤️ People living with HIV who are on medication have an undetectable viral load and cannot transmit the virus.
We’re having a wonderful conference in Valletta at the university of Malta:
Uncensored: Gender Identity and Sexual Intimacy in Counselling and Psychotherapy.
I was honoured to be invited for a keynote on compulsive sexual behaviours.
Uncensored: Gender Identity and Sexual Intimacy in Counselling and Psychotherapy.
I was honoured to be invited for a keynote on compulsive sexual behaviours.
November 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
We’re having a wonderful conference in Valletta at the university of Malta:
Uncensored: Gender Identity and Sexual Intimacy in Counselling and Psychotherapy.
I was honoured to be invited for a keynote on compulsive sexual behaviours.
Uncensored: Gender Identity and Sexual Intimacy in Counselling and Psychotherapy.
I was honoured to be invited for a keynote on compulsive sexual behaviours.
It’s always a joy to be invited to teach at the ESSM School and Advanced School in Budapest.
Today, I delivered two workshops:
🏳️🌈 Working with LGBTQ+ people
✅ Navigating consent
Tomorrow I’ll be teaching on the diverse landscapes of relationships! ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷🩵
Today, I delivered two workshops:
🏳️🌈 Working with LGBTQ+ people
✅ Navigating consent
Tomorrow I’ll be teaching on the diverse landscapes of relationships! ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷🩵
November 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
It’s always a joy to be invited to teach at the ESSM School and Advanced School in Budapest.
Today, I delivered two workshops:
🏳️🌈 Working with LGBTQ+ people
✅ Navigating consent
Tomorrow I’ll be teaching on the diverse landscapes of relationships! ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷🩵
Today, I delivered two workshops:
🏳️🌈 Working with LGBTQ+ people
✅ Navigating consent
Tomorrow I’ll be teaching on the diverse landscapes of relationships! ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷🩵
It was lovely to catch up with colleague and friend Dr Brendan Dunlop while in Manchester! We share a passion for queer mental health! ❤️🌈
November 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
It was lovely to catch up with colleague and friend Dr Brendan Dunlop while in Manchester! We share a passion for queer mental health! ❤️🌈
It was fantastic meeting David Ley in London!
His book “The Myth of Sex Addiction” was pivotal in transforming my career to what it is now.
And what great timing to meet in the week of the publication of the Sexual and Relationship Therapy journal position statement on “sex/porn addiction”. 💜
His book “The Myth of Sex Addiction” was pivotal in transforming my career to what it is now.
And what great timing to meet in the week of the publication of the Sexual and Relationship Therapy journal position statement on “sex/porn addiction”. 💜
November 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
It was fantastic meeting David Ley in London!
His book “The Myth of Sex Addiction” was pivotal in transforming my career to what it is now.
And what great timing to meet in the week of the publication of the Sexual and Relationship Therapy journal position statement on “sex/porn addiction”. 💜
His book “The Myth of Sex Addiction” was pivotal in transforming my career to what it is now.
And what great timing to meet in the week of the publication of the Sexual and Relationship Therapy journal position statement on “sex/porn addiction”. 💜
The gonorrhea vaccine is now available on the NHS. Go and get it for extra protection.
November 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The gonorrhea vaccine is now available on the NHS. Go and get it for extra protection.
It was lovely to catch up with friend and colleague Ben Kaye.
He does such amazing work in the Chems@x scene. ❤️🏳️🌈
Working collaboratively is key to making real important change. We never stop learning from each other.
I wish everyone a fabulous Friday! ❤️🌈
He does such amazing work in the Chems@x scene. ❤️🏳️🌈
Working collaboratively is key to making real important change. We never stop learning from each other.
I wish everyone a fabulous Friday! ❤️🌈
November 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
It was lovely to catch up with friend and colleague Ben Kaye.
He does such amazing work in the Chems@x scene. ❤️🏳️🌈
Working collaboratively is key to making real important change. We never stop learning from each other.
I wish everyone a fabulous Friday! ❤️🌈
He does such amazing work in the Chems@x scene. ❤️🏳️🌈
Working collaboratively is key to making real important change. We never stop learning from each other.
I wish everyone a fabulous Friday! ❤️🌈
It’s always a pleasure to offer clinical supervision to an international group of therapists for IOSS. The topic today was problematic porn use. We had very interesting in-depth conversations! 💚
November 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
It’s always a pleasure to offer clinical supervision to an international group of therapists for IOSS. The topic today was problematic porn use. We had very interesting in-depth conversations! 💚
“Porn addiction” is not clinically endorsed. The body of scientific research actually hasn’t found any causation of mental health or sexual health issues. But there are correlations.
November 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
“Porn addiction” is not clinically endorsed. The body of scientific research actually hasn’t found any causation of mental health or sexual health issues. But there are correlations.
COVID-19 jab done! ✅
It’s expensive but worth it, I think.
Flu jab on Monday, COVID today. It’s a jabby week this week! 😁
It’s expensive but worth it, I think.
Flu jab on Monday, COVID today. It’s a jabby week this week! 😁
November 6, 2025 at 10:02 AM
COVID-19 jab done! ✅
It’s expensive but worth it, I think.
Flu jab on Monday, COVID today. It’s a jabby week this week! 😁
It’s expensive but worth it, I think.
Flu jab on Monday, COVID today. It’s a jabby week this week! 😁
The term “problematic porn use” (PPU) is commonly used by clinicians but it carries the bias that the problem with porn always lies with the person watching it.
However, often, the distress is felt by the partner of the person watching porn, not the person watching it.
However, often, the distress is felt by the partner of the person watching porn, not the person watching it.
November 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The term “problematic porn use” (PPU) is commonly used by clinicians but it carries the bias that the problem with porn always lies with the person watching it.
However, often, the distress is felt by the partner of the person watching porn, not the person watching it.
However, often, the distress is felt by the partner of the person watching porn, not the person watching it.
Flu jab done today ✅
November 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Flu jab done today ✅
Happy Halloween! 🎃
It is a time believed to be when the boundary between physical world and the spiritual is thinnest. 👻
How are you celebrating Halloween?
If you want a short queer read on Halloween, here’s my Psychology Today blog! 🎃👻💀🏳️🌈
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talk...
It is a time believed to be when the boundary between physical world and the spiritual is thinnest. 👻
How are you celebrating Halloween?
If you want a short queer read on Halloween, here’s my Psychology Today blog! 🎃👻💀🏳️🌈
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talk...
October 31, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Happy Halloween! 🎃
It is a time believed to be when the boundary between physical world and the spiritual is thinnest. 👻
How are you celebrating Halloween?
If you want a short queer read on Halloween, here’s my Psychology Today blog! 🎃👻💀🏳️🌈
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talk...
It is a time believed to be when the boundary between physical world and the spiritual is thinnest. 👻
How are you celebrating Halloween?
If you want a short queer read on Halloween, here’s my Psychology Today blog! 🎃👻💀🏳️🌈
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talk...
I’m back at the Modern Sex Therapy Institutes for a live webinar on working with compulsive sexual behaviours on Saturday 17th January at 9am (EST)/ 2pm (GMT).
Come and join us! 🇺🇸🇬🇧💜🌈
modernsextherapyinstitutes.com/product/work...
Come and join us! 🇺🇸🇬🇧💜🌈
modernsextherapyinstitutes.com/product/work...
October 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I’m back at the Modern Sex Therapy Institutes for a live webinar on working with compulsive sexual behaviours on Saturday 17th January at 9am (EST)/ 2pm (GMT).
Come and join us! 🇺🇸🇬🇧💜🌈
modernsextherapyinstitutes.com/product/work...
Come and join us! 🇺🇸🇬🇧💜🌈
modernsextherapyinstitutes.com/product/work...
It is Halloween week! 🎃👻💀
Although Halloween itself is about honouring the dead, the Halloween week is filled with horror movies and scary things in shops.
It is a good opportunity to ask ourselves: what is our biggest fear?
Although Halloween itself is about honouring the dead, the Halloween week is filled with horror movies and scary things in shops.
It is a good opportunity to ask ourselves: what is our biggest fear?
October 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
It is Halloween week! 🎃👻💀
Although Halloween itself is about honouring the dead, the Halloween week is filled with horror movies and scary things in shops.
It is a good opportunity to ask ourselves: what is our biggest fear?
Although Halloween itself is about honouring the dead, the Halloween week is filled with horror movies and scary things in shops.
It is a good opportunity to ask ourselves: what is our biggest fear?
Therapists in therapy. It seems to be taboo. Why?
I’m in therapy. There, I said it!
I resumed therapy seven months ago, not long after my mother died.
This time, I chose an integrative and existential therapist.
I’m in therapy. There, I said it!
I resumed therapy seven months ago, not long after my mother died.
This time, I chose an integrative and existential therapist.
October 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Therapists in therapy. It seems to be taboo. Why?
I’m in therapy. There, I said it!
I resumed therapy seven months ago, not long after my mother died.
This time, I chose an integrative and existential therapist.
I’m in therapy. There, I said it!
I resumed therapy seven months ago, not long after my mother died.
This time, I chose an integrative and existential therapist.
I’m now in Soho, my home.
Blowing a kiss to you all!
We’re fabulously queer! We’re part of nature because nature is queer too! We have always been here since humans walked the Earth, and we will always be here.
Sending LOVE to you all! ❤️🌈❤️🌈❤️🌈
Blowing a kiss to you all!
We’re fabulously queer! We’re part of nature because nature is queer too! We have always been here since humans walked the Earth, and we will always be here.
Sending LOVE to you all! ❤️🌈❤️🌈❤️🌈
October 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I’m now in Soho, my home.
Blowing a kiss to you all!
We’re fabulously queer! We’re part of nature because nature is queer too! We have always been here since humans walked the Earth, and we will always be here.
Sending LOVE to you all! ❤️🌈❤️🌈❤️🌈
Blowing a kiss to you all!
We’re fabulously queer! We’re part of nature because nature is queer too! We have always been here since humans walked the Earth, and we will always be here.
Sending LOVE to you all! ❤️🌈❤️🌈❤️🌈
We had a gorgeous sunny Summer this year, so I’m now ready for Autumn. Such a beautiful season! 🍁
It is soothing to observe and be in nature doing its thing in the changing seasons, recycling, transitioning, renewing in its slow regular patterns 🧡
It is soothing to observe and be in nature doing its thing in the changing seasons, recycling, transitioning, renewing in its slow regular patterns 🧡
October 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
We had a gorgeous sunny Summer this year, so I’m now ready for Autumn. Such a beautiful season! 🍁
It is soothing to observe and be in nature doing its thing in the changing seasons, recycling, transitioning, renewing in its slow regular patterns 🧡
It is soothing to observe and be in nature doing its thing in the changing seasons, recycling, transitioning, renewing in its slow regular patterns 🧡
It’s the third time I am in the Canary Islands.
It is always poignant for me.
My grandmother who devoted her life to support her family had only one wish for herself: to visit the Canary Islands.
But her husband didn’t want to travel so she never made it.
It is always poignant for me.
My grandmother who devoted her life to support her family had only one wish for herself: to visit the Canary Islands.
But her husband didn’t want to travel so she never made it.
October 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
It’s the third time I am in the Canary Islands.
It is always poignant for me.
My grandmother who devoted her life to support her family had only one wish for herself: to visit the Canary Islands.
But her husband didn’t want to travel so she never made it.
It is always poignant for me.
My grandmother who devoted her life to support her family had only one wish for herself: to visit the Canary Islands.
But her husband didn’t want to travel so she never made it.
I’m grateful for Yasmina Floyer spotlighting my critique of sex addiction in the October issue of Psychologies.
As you know I’m passionate about highlighting the harm done by applying an addiction treatment to sexual behaviours. And offering ethical and sex-positive methods instead ❤️
As you know I’m passionate about highlighting the harm done by applying an addiction treatment to sexual behaviours. And offering ethical and sex-positive methods instead ❤️
September 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I’m grateful for Yasmina Floyer spotlighting my critique of sex addiction in the October issue of Psychologies.
As you know I’m passionate about highlighting the harm done by applying an addiction treatment to sexual behaviours. And offering ethical and sex-positive methods instead ❤️
As you know I’m passionate about highlighting the harm done by applying an addiction treatment to sexual behaviours. And offering ethical and sex-positive methods instead ❤️
Yesterday I delivered an EMDR workshop for the regional group in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire on recovery after sexual assault.
September 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Yesterday I delivered an EMDR workshop for the regional group in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire on recovery after sexual assault.