Podcasts about gaytherapyla

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. 

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)

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. 

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. 

Ken discusses traumatic experiences such as child abuse, illness, accidents, crime, and interpersonal betrayals and the long-term coping in life for each of these. 

Ken discusses some unusual and unique considerations for gay men when discovering a partner has "cheated" or broken an agreement, with tips on how to understand layers of nuances for healing. 

Ken gives tips on the life lessons gay men can learn from actors in the entertainment industry, about character, sex, and telling our stories.

Ken discusses how to cope when our mentors have flaws: parents, teachers, professors, bosses, work mentors, and therapist/coaches, and how to cope when they disappoint us. 

Ken discusses how gay men can cope with the frustrations of being single when you want a partner, and how we can rally our internal and external resources to be at our best. 

A discussion of the mental health and sociio-political impacts of Monkey Pox for gay men, and how to cope with them. 

Licensed psychotherapist and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist Ken Howard, LCSW, CST, provides an overview for gay men of the materials and circumstances for kink play in a safe and consensual context. 

Ken discusses gay men's relationship to food, at any phase of life, with its rewards and challenges. 

Ken discusses how gay men make the decision to relocate to a different town, city, state, or country and the reasons why.  

Ken discusses the umbrella term "LGBT" and the consideration of the specific needs of gay men, and their political and social implications. 

Ken describes how the end of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in many regions can mean recovering from a traumatic experience, with the symptoms and phases of recovery in a gay male context. 

Ken Howard, LCSW, CST discusses improving gay men's relationships by meeting three needs: emotional, sexual, and interpersonal. 

Ken Howard, LCSW, CST, AASECT-Certified Sex Therapist, applies the Braun-Harvey and Vigorito "Six Principles of Sexual Health" specifically to gay men. 

Ken gives practical tips for success for 2021, in many areas of your life, including emotionally, physically, financially, relationally, and professionally. 

Ken discusses gay men who fall in love with straight or unavailable men. 

GayTherapyLA founder, Ken Howard, LCSW gives tips on dealing with the stress of COVID-19, how to avoid pitfalls, and ultimately prepare for recovery. 

Ken gives tips to prospective gay dads on questions to ask yourselves and each other about the option of having kids in a gay male relationship. 

Ken Howard, LCSW, a specialist in gay men's relationship advice, gay couples therapy, and gay sex therapy, gives tips on how to manage a gay long-distance relationship. 

Ken asks you to reflect on your "relationship" with alcohol and drugs.  What's the quality of this relationship?  What changes need to be made for your best life? How does one get help?

Ken discusses why nerds make the best boyfriends for gay men and other tips for gay men's dating. 

Ken describes how using Problem-Solving Therapy can help reduce overwhelm/stress in the midst of COVID-19 and police brutality. 

Ken discusses how to reach your life goals by making the most of your past, present, and future. 

Ken discusses crisis situations gay men can face like discrimination, financial, health, and personal losses, and how to cope with them.

Gay men's specialist therapist and sex therapist, Ken Howard, LCSW,  discusses erectile dysfunction at three "stages" and how to cope with them, balancing both the medical and the psychological aspects of gay men's sex. 

This week Nicoletta is joined by founder and director of GayTherapyLA Ken Howard, LCSW. Ken explains why gay men need a therapy specialization, living through the HIV/AIDS epidemic, survivor guilt, minority stress, and appearance privilege. Also featured: when should you tell someone your STI status, Broadway, and PrEP.   Ken Howard: https://gaytherapyla.com/   Ken’s Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gay-therapy-la-with-ken-howard-lcsw/id1450860786   Info on PREP: https://prepfacts.org/prep/the-basics/   Sponsors Uberlube: Right now, Uberlube is offering listeners a special offer – 10% off and free shipping when you use my code “SandS” at UberLube.com   MyGirlFund: You can join mygirlfund.com for free, and for a limited time you can become a lifetime premium member for less than $5 when you visit mygirlfund.com/sands   FOLLOW US  Twitter Instagram Facebook Send questions, comments, stories, rants to: SlutsAndScholars@gmail.com Sluts And Scholars is a production of sluts and scholars media.

Awkward silences, frequent "jokes" and cynicism for each other - and lack of sex can be signs for a couple to seek therapy. And when you have kids, the distance can be amplified since work/kids take all the focus off of the relationship. As avid couples therapy fans, we turned to Ken Howard, a therapist who specializes in gay men, to discuss some of the elements that are brought up in couples therapy, and how they present themselves in a gay male couple. "When you feel like you don't know what the solutions are, when you feel like you can't get passed your point of you versus your partner's point of view” – That's what gay men's therapist Ken Howard advises to look for as an indicator of whether a couple should consider therapy. “I think it's when you get to that 'now what?' feeling," he says, that can lead you to follow your commitment to the man you love and work on the relationship at a deeper level. Lack of sex can also be an indicator that something is off in the relationship. "Although people forget that that's awfully normal in both straight and gay relationships,” Howard says. “My mentor Michael Shernoff who is a gay men specialist therapist for 30 years in New York used to say that 'sometimes a period of hot sex cools into a lifetime of warm sex.' And I do work with couples who do not necessarily have sex with each other." Howard also teaches his clients 'The Three C's' principles of Commitment, Communication and Compromise. It emerged following years of treating couples and noticing what do long-term happy couples tend to have in common. "Relationships work in four levels,” he explained on Daddy Squared podcast, “emotionally, physically including sexually, domestically-meaning managing a house together which a lot of couples underestimate, particularly manning finance, and a forth one  I call 'managing the other,' which means coping with stress in a gay relationship that come from the outside in, a homophobic relative... you know, gay couples have stresses that they have to fend off that straight couples don't have." Our Guest: Ken Howard, LCSW Ken Howard is the founder of GayTherapyLA and has over 27 years experience as specialist in therapy for gay men and gay male couples. He helps gay men overcome challenges, setbacks, barriers, and losses in life, to heal and thrive again, overcome challenges such as depression, anxiety, trauma, job stress, career direction, dating/relationship skills, sexual dysfunction and addictions, as well as building a better relationship with your partner. Ken also teaches graduate courses in psychotherapy practice and LGBT issues at USC. In-person and phone/webcam sessions available. Co-Hosts: Yan Dekel, Alex MaghenGuest: Ken Howard, GayTherapyLA.comOpening Theme: Hercules & Love Affair, “Leonora” buy hereArticles Related to this episode:Gay Men's Relationships: Reconciling the Living Room with the Bedroom (Ken Howard, GayTherapyLA)Keeping The Passion Alive (In Marriage) (Sarry Refael, Imperfect Thing Called Love)Listen to previous seasons of Daddy SquaredJoin our Facebook groupConnect with us on Instagram

Awkward silences, frequent "jokes" and cynicism for each other - and lack of sex can be signs for a couple to seek therapy. And when you have kids, the distance can be amplified since work/kids take all the focus off of the relationship. As avid couples therapy fans, we turned to Ken Howard, a therapist who specializes in gay men, to discuss some of the elements that are brought up in couples therapy, and how they present themselves in a gay male couple. "When you feel like you don't know what the solutions are, when you feel like you can't get passed your point of you versus your partner's point of view” – That’s what gay men’s therapist Ken Howard advises to look for as an indicator of whether a couple should consider therapy. “I think it's when you get to that 'now what?' feeling," he says, that can lead you to follow your commitment to the man you love and work on the relationship at a deeper level. Lack of sex can also be an indicator that something is off in the relationship. "Although people forget that that's awfully normal in both straight and gay relationships,” Howard says. “My mentor Michael Shernoff who is a gay men specialist therapist for 30 years in New York used to say that 'sometimes a period of hot sex cools into a lifetime of warm sex.’ And I do work with couples who do not necessarily have sex with each other." Howard also teaches his clients 'The Three C's' principles of Commitment, Communication and Compromise. It emerged following years of treating couples and noticing what do long-term happy couples tend to have in common. "Relationships work in four levels,” he explained on Daddy Squared podcast, “emotionally, physically including sexually, domestically-meaning managing a house together which a lot of couples underestimate, particularly manning finance, and a forth one  I call 'managing the other,' which means coping with stress in a gay relationship that come from the outside in, a homophobic relative... you know, gay couples have stresses that they have to fend off that straight couples don't have." Our Guest: Ken Howard, LCSW Ken Howard is the founder of GayTherapyLA and has over 27 years experience as specialist in therapy for gay men and gay male couples. He helps gay men overcome challenges, setbacks, barriers, and losses in life, to heal and thrive again, overcome challenges such as depression, anxiety, trauma, job stress, career direction, dating/relationship skills, sexual dysfunction and addictions, as well as building a better relationship with your partner. Ken also teaches graduate courses in psychotherapy practice and LGBT issues at USC. In-person and phone/webcam sessions available. Co-Hosts: Yan Dekel, Alex MaghenGuest: Ken Howard, GayTherapyLA.comOpening Theme: Hercules & Love Affair, “Leonora” buy hereArticles Related to this episode:Gay Men’s Relationships: Reconciling the Living Room with the Bedroom (Ken Howard, GayTherapyLA)Keeping The Passion Alive (In Marriage) (Sarry Refael, Imperfect Thing Called Love)Listen to previous seasons of Daddy SquaredJoin our Facebook groupConnect with us on Instagram

Ken Howard, LCSW, guides gay male couples on how to achieve relationship satisfaction non-sexually ("the living room") and sexually ("the bedroom"). 

Ken Howard, LCSW, discusses how gay men recover from crystal meth dependence, and advocates for community education on innovative, sex-positive ways to prevent meth dependence. 

Ken discusses a research article by Leah Fessler, "The Strongest Predictor of Men's Well-Being" and how it relates to life/career coaching. 

Ken gives information on gay men who are sexual abuse, incest, and rape survivors; common characteristics and coping to thrive. 

Ken Howard, LCSW, gives tips on how to overcome the 5 most common fears gay men report about bottoming heard in his psychotherapy practice at GayTherapyLA. 

GayTherapyLA is a private practice for psychotherapy and coaching services, with Ken Howard, LCSW, as its founder and director, with over 26 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!     

Licensed psychotherapist Ken Howard, LCSW, describes how three theories of psychotherapy -- cognitive-behavioral, developmental, and existential -- can help you improve your mental health and overcome challenges at every age of life, with details on how to receive therapy and life coaching services from him or other staff of MensLifeSkillsCenter.com, or GayTherapyLA.com, in office, or via online therapy via Skype, or phone therapy. 

  Ken Howard, MSW, LCSW, is the author of the self-help book, "Self-Empowerment: Have the Life You Want!: How to close the gap between how life is, and how you would like it to be, in important areas of life such as mental health, health, career, finances, family, community, and spirituality, based on his 18 years a licensed psychotherapist and life/business coach."  He has over 19 years experience specializing in gay men and gay male couples.  He is a 21-year survivor of HIV/AIDS and a 10-year survivor of cancer.  He is a psychiatric social worker by training at the University of Southern California (USC) School of Social Work (MSW, '94) and a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA, BA, '87).  He is the former Chair of the Los Angeles County HIV Mental Health Task Force, and wrote the mental health column for A&U (Art & Understanding, America's AIDS magazine) for two years.  He served on the Board of Directors for the Lesbian and Gay Psychotherapy Association of Southern California (LAGPA) for four years. He has published many articles on gay men's mental health, HIV mental health, and is the author of the new self-help book for a general audience, "Self-Empowerment: Have the Life You Want!" (2011).  He maintains a blog at GayTherapyLA.com, and a popular podcast, "Have the Life You Want with Ken Howard, LCSW", on iTunes, Podcast Alley, and Zune.com.  He lives with his husband in West Hollywood, California; where they were part of the 18,000 same-sex couples allowed to marry before the advent of Proposition 8 in November, 2008.