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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.