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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Episode 153: How to Survive Election Season: 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By 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.By Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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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.By 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.By 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.By 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)By 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.By Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 134: The Gay Male Executive: Coaching for Success
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Ken describes his role offering Executive Coaching for gay men and its many purposes and functions.By Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 133: Gay Men, Dating Challenges, and How to Cope with Them
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Ken reviews the most common complaints and challenges from single gay male clients in dating, and how to adaptively cope with each of them.By Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 132: Lessons for Gay Men from the 'On the Boulevard' Musical
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Ken discusses lessons learned in writing his full-length, LGBT-themed musical play, "On the Boulevard," its concept album, and its themes for gay men's self-acceptance.By Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 131: The Economics of Gay Male Relationships: Time, Energy, Money
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Ken gives tips for gay male relationships managing the economics of time, energy, money, convenience, space, control, and sex.
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Episode 130: Gay Men and Knowing Your Sexual Self
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Gay men's specialist psychotherapist, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, and coach Ken Howard, LCSW, CST provides a self-reflection exercise to know your own sexuality in more depth; your background, hopes, fears, best, and worst experiences to re-empower your sexual self at every phase of life.By Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 129: Correction Announcement for Audio File
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Ken announces that the audio file for "Episode 129: Gay Men and Superheroes as Role Models" has been corrected due to a previous incomplete audio file, and now listeners can enjoy the complete episode.By Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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