Letticia Banton

Letticia Banton is a Counselling Psychology and Integrative Psychotherapy Doctoral Candidate at the Metanoia Institute, London. Her doctoral research is an interpretative phenomenological analysis on cisgendered female clients’ experience of their menstrual cycle in therapy with a male therapist. She is an advocate for integrating overlooked issues, such as the menstrual cycle, into contemporary psychotherapeutic theory, research and practice. Her broader clinical and research interests include a focus on gender, and she has considerable therapeutic experience working with transgender and non-binary people. She previously conducted research into the lived experience of heterosexual cross-dressing men at Birkbeck College, London, supervised by Professor Jonathan Smith.