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Contents:

• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS LOS ANGEL, CA
• LBIAN & GAY PSYCHOTHERAPY ASSOCIATN
• GAY THERAPY LA (KEN HOWARD, LCSW, CST)
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS LOUISIANA
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS LAFAYETTE, LA
• GAY THERAPIST DISCS “LOVE, SIMON” OM A GAY MEN’S MENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVE
• LGBTQ+ SUPPORT GROUPS LOS ANGEL, CA

LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS LOS ANGEL, CA

gay, cisgenr man and enjoy workg wh the chronic pa and. Lbian & Gay Psychotherapy Associatn Fd a Psychotherapistwho Provis a Safe Environment for Lbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgenr Clients the Greater Los Angel and Southern California areas. When I started my own therapy my 20s my belief that another gay man uld better empathize my experienc – and offer a kd of “shorthand” – proved to be rrect.

Who better to help a gay twenty-somethg sift through emotnal bris than an experienced and ted gay man? My specializatns for dividuals and upl are varied and clu negotiatg monogamy; anxiety and prsn; the pleasur and perils of social media; body image, perfectn-seekg and self-teem; tst and betrayal; recreatnal substance e/abe, addictn and revery; externalized and ternalized homophobia; sexually pulsive behavr; fay and reer strsors; and unaligned libidos wh upl.

Addnally, I worked as the media director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD), ensurg the fair and balanced portrayal of our muny film and televisn. I am the most experienced gay men's specialist psychotherapist the Uned Stat, wh over 31 years experience.

LBIAN & GAY PSYCHOTHERAPY ASSOCIATN

Unlike others, I am a long-term specialist workg wh gay men and other LGBT people.

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GAY THERAPY LA (KEN HOWARD, LCSW, CST)

+ folks health related issu, g out, vlent experienc, ternalized homophobia/transphobia, transng, adverse ary experienc, & buildg rilience, etc. LGBTQ-affirmative therapists will be versed the negative effects of homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, and heteronormativy (the assumptn that heterosexualy is “normal” and superr) and help clients navigate the challeng they prent—as well as relatnship problems, fay tensn, or other day-to-day ncerns for which a client might seek are the advantag of seeg an LGBTQ-iendly therapist? Even though any MD n prcribe meditns for psychiatric disorrs, I prefer to refer you to a tsted, gay or “gay-iendly” psychiatrist bee of their specialized expertise prcribg the right meditn at the right dosage for your suatn.

Psychologists also tradnally ntribute much to the amic lerature and body of rearch, and associatns such as the Amerin Psychologil Associatn have meangful gay-advocy programs. It was here that I started my specializatn workg wh gay men, gay male psychology, gay mental health, HIV mental health, and muny rearch and advocy.

LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS LOUISIANA

While many well-meang, progrsive, heterosexual psychotherapists claim to work wh LGBT and/or HIV issu, or even gay male therapists who are not specialists, n provi valuable service, workg wh me giv you the add benef of workg wh someone who is a long-term specialist who actually liv wh the muni as a part of them. I am gay and HIV-posive, 24/7, which means that I sometim draw on my profsnal trag the gay and poz areas of study, rearch, and expertise, and other tim I am drawg on my personal experienc and exampl to help you the areas. After over 32 years of livg succsfully wh HIV myself, and 38 years of livg as an “out” gay man Los Angel and Wt Hollywood, there is much “material” to draw on!

– 30 years of ntuo profsnal experience providg psychotherapy, unselg, and achg specifilly to a gay men’s specialty, as well as sendary specialti helpg people livg wh HIV or psychiatric disorrs. – Extensive experience workg wh gay men who have substance pennce or addictns, helpg hundreds of people overe dysfunctnal relatnships to crystal methamphetame, e, hero, marijuana, sex, gamblg, shopliftg, eatg, and work. – 38 years of faiary of workg, playg, and livg the Wt Hollywood gay muny as my home.

– Thoands of hours of experience helpg gay men wh very siar problems, and untls “succs stori” on how problems much like yours have been solved the past. – Dozens of publitns and speakg engagements given lolly and natnally, hundreds of blog articl, and over 100 podst episos of “Gay Therapy LA wh Ken Howard, LCSW, CST” heard by over 8, 000 per month over 40 untri of the world. – Contuo volvement ntributns to our gay and/or HIV muny through volunteer work, donatns, nsultg, and other ntributns.

LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS LAFAYETTE, LA

Shrk at the Movi: Lovg “Love, Simon” om a Gay Men’s Mental Health Perspective. In my work as a licensed psychotherapist and life/bs ach specializg gay men and therapy for gay male upl for over 26 years, I blog equently on topics on LGBTQ+ mental health general, and gay men’s therapy particular, as the founr and director of GayTherapyLA, seeg clients my office Los Angel (Wt Hollywood) but also via phone or webm to gay male clients for therapy or achg California, all over the untry, or the world.

“Love, Simon” chang that – and ’s a bellwether tt of whether mastream movi wh lead gay characters n “make ” the mastream Hollywood mercial film market. At the (long) ncsn stand l, there was a mix of teens, olr adults, straight and gay patrons (many wh enuragg – and hot – public displays of affectn), gog to all the movi of the multiplex, but many streamg om the ncsn le to the dorium (the ma, largt one of the plex) where “Love, Simon” was butg.

GAY THERAPIST DISCS “LOVE, SIMON” OM A GAY MEN’S MENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVE

While “Brokeback Mounta” certaly broke ground as another mastream, big-stud, highly-publicized movie wh gay them and well-known stars, still had a b of the stigma that gay characters have had film history for a very long time – eher beg the butt of jok many s, or the “tragic figur” who end up ad or alone or unhappy due to circumstanc (as [SPOILER] “Brokeback Mounta” do). One of the many thgs that’s groundbreakg about “Love, Simon” is that ’s not tragic nor lghg at the gay characters; we are sympathetic wh them, whether ’s the genr-nformg gay Simon, or the genr non-nformg gay (man of lor) Ethan. His character beg 17 but the actor beg 22 keeps om beg creepy for an olr gay man like me (and so many others that dience) who I’m sure found Robson nsistently charmg and cute a certa PG-13 sexs that so many teen romanc have (anyone remember the hottie “Sixteen Candl”?

Our empathy wh Nick-as-Simon marks a far cry om the days of Frankl Pangborn, Edward Everett Horton, and Clifton Webb playg gay (or wk-and-nod gay) characters that as dienc we liked but always seemed to lgh “at”, not “wh”, even to some extent Nathan Lane a film as recent as “The Birdge”, or s French precsor, “La Cage x Foll”. We’re also a far cry, the history of film, om the days of tragic or sry gay characters as “Cisg”, “Silence of the Lambs”, “The Children’s Hour” (lbian-themed), and so many others (each of those films had protts for s negative portrayals of LGBT characters). Nick Robson, his Type-O, broad likeabily factor, mak film history by blowg past all of those (even classic) gay characters and danc (kda badly, one fantasy sequence, breakg the stereotype of gay men as good dancers) to his own place as a “new kd of gay” character, the Teen Romantic Lead.

The Homo Sapiens Agenda, is a noteworthy pot. This story don’t e om a gay man wh an tobgraphil ax to grd (not that there’s anythg wrong wh that), but om a mastream, extremely popular genre of entertament the YA novel world (thk “Twilight” seri on film, or “Vampire Diari” on televisn). “Love, Simon” and Gay Men’s Mental Health.

LGBTQ+ SUPPORT GROUPS LOS ANGEL, CA

That’s why ’s heartwarmg to image all the gay teens seeg “Love, Simon” and experiencg that sense of mirrorg when they see themselv empathetilly Simon.

One of my iends, Jam De Mason (who is the out son of Go-Go’s lead sger Belda Carlisle and grandson of Hollywood legend Jam Mason, who is also nng for Cy Council the Cy of Wt Hollywood), scribed this feelg on Facebook his own reactn to “Love, Simon”, mentng how he would have loved, as a teen at 14, to see a movie like this and experience that feelg that he’s not alone as a gay teen. When our Amerin gay teens experience so much validatn the days by all the anti-gay (and anti-LGBT) msag g om Tmp and nsistently ALL of his bet and lleagu, is up to , as The People, and to our popular culture, to n terference wh those negative msag (that n drive LGBT teens to prsn or suici! Gay Visibily Through Prence.

Legendary gay activist and polician Harvey Milk, of the San Francis Board of Supervisors, murred by lleague Dan Whe the 70’s, enuraged LGBT people to e out. ” In makg “Love, Simon”, the creators do more than make a “good movie”, they create a vehicle of visibily that leads to -mystifyg the LGBT experience general, and young gay men particular, that certaly n soften hearts and mds toward a more tolerant, equal society.