GayTherapyLA is a private practice for psychotherapy (California) and coaching services (worldwide), with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST, as its founder and director, with over 32 years experience providing services for gay men, as individuals, couples, and polycules, from his office in Los Angeles and serving gay men all over the world via phone or webcam sessions. Ken provides help for gay men to maximize their quality of life in both their personal lives and careers. While a podcast cannot substit ...
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Special Bonus Episode: In Defense of Hate: Understanding the Modern American Conservative
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In this re-reading of his November 2, 2016 blog article, Ken revisits an analysis of the Modern American Conservative, Republican/Trump Supporters, on the eve of the 2024 election, and how the 2016 warning is a lesson for today.על ידי Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Gay Men and the Need for Attention: Healthy vs. Unhealthy Narcissism
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Ken discusses gay men and the need for attention; healthy vs. unhealthy narcissism; inclusion and exclusion from gay groups; and practical tips for meeting guys in gay social settings.על ידי Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Managing Symptoms in Gay Men’s Mental Health: A Path to Empowerment
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Ken teaches about the TFID (Type, Frequency, Intensity, Duration) model for managing mental health challenges for gay men such as depression, anxiety, and others, with practical exercises to bring symptom relief.על ידי Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Netflix’s “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” – Gay Psychotherapist on Healing for Gay Male Survivors of Sexual Trauma
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Ken discusses Netflix's "Monster: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story" and its themes of notoriety, abuse, and healing, and applies these in the context of gay male adult sexual trauma and abuse survivors.על ידי Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Gay Men Open Relationship Ground Rules: Who What When Where Why
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Ken provides education on how gay male relationships (couples or polycules) can establish ground rules agreements for Consensual Non-Monogamy using the Who What When Where Why structure.על ידי Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Support for Gay Men Leaving Religion: Reclaiming Your Identity with Secular Alternatives
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Ken teaches about supporting gay men leaving religion and reclaiming their identity with secular alternatives, free of religious abuse and embracing secular solace or an affirmative tradition that works for them.על ידי Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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How to Survive Election Season 2024: Coping with Election Anxiety
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Ken gives tips and "modules" for coping with election anxiety in this 2024 election season, and how to cope with anxiety symptoms, increase self-empowerment, and practice compassionate self-support.על ידי Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 152: Gay Men and Internal Family Systems: The Different Parts of You
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Ken describes how IFS, Internal Family Systems, a model of evidence-based psychotherapy, can apply to gay men to help you integrate the different parts of you into a cohesive, confident sense of Self.על ידי Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 151: Gay Men's Dating: What Your Dates Aren't Telling You
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Ken gives tips for gay men's dating on what gay men complain about their dates to their therapist or their friends, and what to do about them.על ידי Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 150: Gay Men's Relationships: When You Want Kids and He Doesn't
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Ken gives guidance on how gay men in relationships can discuss whether to have kids, and their options for doing so.על ידי Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 149: Confronting Religious Moralism in Therapy for Gay Men
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Ken discusses the subtle and insidious ways that religious moralism undermines professional mental health services delivery (psychotherapy) for the broader LGBTQ+ community and more specifically for gay men, and how to counter this.על ידי Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 148: How to Get Your Financial Life Together: A Guide for Gay Men
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Ken reviews the psychological, clinical dynamics of money management, planning aspects of your financial life, and how to talk to the people in your life to reduce financial anxiety and support long-term financial stability.על ידי Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 147: Gay Men and How to Recover from a Breakup
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Based on his 32 years as a gay men's specialist psychotherapist, sex therapist, and coach, Ken Howard, LCSW, CST gives 21 tips for gay men and how to recover from a breakup.על ידי Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 146: Gay Men and Starting Your Own Business
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Ken gives guidance on gay men and starting your own business, based on his own experience owning a business for over 25 years, and providing career/executive coaching to the Gay Male Solo Entpreneur, a preview of his upcoming e-course.על ידי Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 145: Gay Men and How to Be a Better Lover
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Ken Howard, LCSW, CST, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, gives thirteen tips for gay men on how to be a better lover, based on his thirty-year experience as a gay men's specialist therapist, coach, and sex therapist.על ידי Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 144: Gay Men and Wealth: Coping with Rewards and Challenges
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Gay therapist Ken Howard, LCSW, CST, discusses gay men and wealth: rewards, challenges, how to cope with those challenges, and how to develop a social support network.על ידי Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 143: Seven Ways to Enhance a Gay Men's Relationship for Satisfaction and Longevity
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Gay therapist Ken Howard, LCSW, CST gives seven secret tips and recommendations for how gay male couples and polycules can enhance their relationship for both longevity and satisfaction.על ידי Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 142: Gay Men and the Emotional Benefits of Kink Play
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Ken describes the emotional benefits of kink play for gay men, with their implications for daily life and personal self-empowerment.על ידי Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 141: Gay Men and Gender Role Enforcement Rage
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Ken describes Gender Role Enforcement Rage: what it is, who is doing it, its harms, and what to do about it.על ידי Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 140: Gay Men, the Holiday Season, and the Five Senses
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Ken takes a Mindfulness look at how gay men can enjoy the Holiday Season with the five senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.על ידי Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 139: Gay Men and Santa Daddy
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Ken discusses gay men and "Santa Daddy," gay men's approaches to Santa Claus, inspired by the song, "Santa Baby," and inspiration for the holiday season.על ידי Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 138: Gay Men and How To Reach Your Full Potential
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Ken discusses the most common unconscious barriers gay men have to reaching their full potential from 30 years practicing therapy and coaching for gay men.על ידי Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 137: Gay Men and Spirituality: Reclaiming Your Rights
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Ken discusses how gay men can reclaim their right to spirituality even after abuse by religious institutions.על ידי Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 136: What Is Daily Mental Health for Gay Men?
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Ken gives tips on how to start each day with a strong mental health to give inspiration and focus to meet our goals as gay men. (To support the show, visit glow.fm/gaytherapylawithkenhowardlcswcst)על ידי Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 135: Top 10 Reasons Gay Couples Break Up and How to Prevent Them
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Ken describes the Top 10 reasons gay male couples break up, as observed in over 30 years of practice as a gay specialist therapist, and offers a coping strategy to prevent each one.על ידי Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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