Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
Latest Episodes
Episode 58: Gay Men and the Big Five Personality Traits
Ken discusses how the classic "Big Five" personality traits of Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism apply to understanding gay men.
Episode 57: Gay Men Coping with Stress: Start at the Source
Ken describes how using Problem-Solving Therapy can help reduce overwhelm/stress in the midst of COVID-19 and police brutality.
Episode 56: Problem-Solving in Gay Men's Open Relationships
Ken gives tips on how gay open relationships can overcome jealousy, STI risk, privacy, and other challenges.
Episode 55: Gay Men Making the Most of Your Past, Present, & Future
Ken discusses how to reach your life goals by making the most of your past, present, and future.
Episode 54: Coping with COVID-19 for Gay Men: What Type Are You?
Ken describes 4 main emotional reactions to COVID-19, and the 5 "coping types" among gay men observed in clinical practice.
Episode 53: Gay Men in Common Crisis Situations & Steps to Handle Them
Ken discusses crisis situations gay men can face like discrimination, financial, health, and personal losses, and how to cope with them.
Episode 52: Why White Gay Men Should Support Black Lives Matter
Ken discusses why gay White men and other LGBT should be supporting #BlackLivesMatter as a collaboration of minority groups to fight social injustice with activism.
Episode 51: Gay Men Coping with Single Life: Tips and Tricks
Ken gives 12 tips on coping with life as a single gay man, based on case examples from clinical practice for being at your best.
Episode 50: Three Types of Erectile Dysfunction and their Interventions
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.
Episode 49: The New COVID-19 Coping: Balancing “Toxic Positivity” with “Adaptive Coping”
Ken Howard, LCSW discusses how to validate both positive and negative feelings during the COVID-19 crisis and find coping strategies that work for each of us.