Synopsis
GayTherapyLA is a private practice for psychotherapy and coaching services, with Ken Howard, LCSW, as its founder and director, with over 27 years experience providing services for gay men, as individuals and couples, with offices in Los Angeles and serving others nationwide in the U.S. or guys all over the world via phone or webcam sessions. Ken and his associates provide help for gay men to achieve their optimum quality of life in both their personal lives and careers. While a podcast cannot substitute for therapy and is provided as educational information only, these episodes reflect the work done at GayTherapyLA with clients, daily. Your questions and comments are welcome!
Episodes
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Special Bonus Episode: In Defense of Hate: Understanding the Modern American Conservative
29/10/2024 Duration: 18minIn 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.
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Gay Men and the Need for Attention: Healthy vs. Unhealthy Narcissism
29/10/2024 Duration: 34minKen 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.
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Managing Symptoms in Gay Men’s Mental Health: A Path to Empowerment
15/10/2024 Duration: 39minKen 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.
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Netflix’s “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” – Gay Psychotherapist on Healing for Gay Male Survivors of Sexual Trauma
23/09/2024 Duration: 50minKen 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.
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Episode 155: Open Relationship and CNM Ground Rules: Who What When Where Why
20/09/2024 Duration: 21minKen 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.
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Episode 154: Supporting Gay Men Leaving Religion: Reclaiming Your Identity with Secular Alternatives
04/09/2024 Duration: 34minKen 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.
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Episode 153: How to Survive Election Season: Coping with Election Anxiety
08/08/2024 Duration: 55minKen 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.
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Episode 152: Gay Men and Internal Family Systems: The Different Parts of You
22/07/2024 Duration: 31minKen 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.
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Episode 151: Gay Men's Dating: What Your Dates Aren't Telling You
03/07/2024 Duration: 33minKen 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.
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Episode 150: Gay Men's Relationships: When You Want Kids and He Doesn't
11/06/2024 Duration: 32minKen gives guidance on how gay men in relationships can discuss whether to have kids, and their options for doing so.
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Episode 149: Confronting Religious Moralism in Therapy for Gay Men
21/05/2024 Duration: 01h11minKen 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.
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Episode 148: How to Get Your Financial Life Together: A Guide for Gay Men
28/04/2024 Duration: 53minKen 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.
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Episode 147: Gay Men and How to Recover from a Breakup
05/04/2024 Duration: 41minBased 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.
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Episode 146: Gay Men and Starting Your Own Business
22/03/2024 Duration: 54minKen 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.
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Episode 145: Gay Men and How to Be a Better Lover
12/03/2024 Duration: 36minKen 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.
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Episode 144: Gay Men and Wealth: Coping with Rewards and Challenges
25/02/2024 Duration: 01h02minGay 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.
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Episode 143: Seven Ways to Enhance a Gay Men's Relationship for Satisfaction and Longevity
04/02/2024 Duration: 32minGay 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.
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Episode 142: Gay Men and the Emotional Benefits of Kink Play
23/01/2024 Duration: 40minKen describes the emotional benefits of kink play for gay men, with their implications for daily life and personal self-empowerment.
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Episode 141: Gay Men and Gender Role Enforcement Rage
14/01/2024 Duration: 49minKen describes Gender Role Enforcement Rage: what it is, who is doing it, its harms, and what to do about it.
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Episode 140: Gay Men, the Holiday Season, and the Five Senses
21/12/2023 Duration: 16minKen takes a Mindfulness look at how gay men can enjoy the Holiday Season with the five senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.