Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST


Latest Episodes

Netflix’s “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” – Gay Psychotherapist on Healing for Gay Male Survivors of Sexual Trauma
September 22, 2024

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 survivor

Gay Men Open Relationship Ground Rules: Who What When Where Why
September 19, 2024

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.

Support for Gay Men Leaving Religion: Reclaiming Your Identity with Secular Alternatives
September 03, 2024

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 wor

How to Survive Election Season 2024: Coping with Election Anxiety
August 08, 2024

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.

Episode 152: Gay Men and Internal Family Systems: The Different Parts of You
July 21, 2024

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.

Episode 151: Gay Men's Dating: What Your Dates Aren't Telling You
July 03, 2024

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.

Episode 150: Gay Men's Relationships: When You Want Kids and He Doesn't
June 11, 2024

Ken gives guidance on how gay men in relationships can discuss whether to have kids, and their options for doing so.

Episode 149: Confronting Religious Moralism in Therapy for Gay Men
May 21, 2024

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 g

Episode 148: How to Get Your Financial Life Together: A Guide for Gay Men
April 27, 2024

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-t

Episode 147: Gay Men and How to Recover from a Breakup
April 05, 2024

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.