GayTherapyLA is a private practice for psychotherapy (California) and coaching services (worldwide), with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST, as its founder and director, with over 32 years experience providing services for gay men, as individuals, couples, and polycules, from his office in Los Angeles and serving gay men all over the world via phone or webcam sessions. Ken provides help for gay men to maximize their quality of life in both their personal lives and careers. While a podcast cannot substit ...
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Episode 148: How to Get Your Financial Life Together: A Guide for Gay Men
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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-term financial stability.Von Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 147: Gay Men and How to Recover from a Breakup
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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.Von Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 146: Gay Men and Starting Your Own Business
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Ken gives guidance on gay men and starting your own business, based on his own experience owning a business for over 25 years, and providing career/executive coaching to the Gay Male Solo Entpreneur, a preview of his upcoming e-course.Von Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 145: Gay Men and How to Be a Better Lover
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Ken Howard, LCSW, CST, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, gives thirteen tips for gay men on how to be a better lover, based on his thirty-year experience as a gay men's specialist therapist, coach, and sex therapist.Von Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 144: Gay Men and Wealth: Coping with Rewards and Challenges
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Gay therapist Ken Howard, LCSW, CST, discusses gay men and wealth: rewards, challenges, how to cope with those challenges, and how to develop a social support network.Von Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 143: Seven Ways to Enhance a Gay Men's Relationship for Satisfaction and Longevity
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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.Von Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 142: Gay Men and the Emotional Benefits of Kink Play
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Ken describes the emotional benefits of kink play for gay men, with their implications for daily life and personal self-empowerment.Von Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 141: Gay Men and Gender Role Enforcement Rage
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Ken describes Gender Role Enforcement Rage: what it is, who is doing it, its harms, and what to do about it.Von Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 140: Gay Men, the Holiday Season, and the Five Senses
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Ken takes a Mindfulness look at how gay men can enjoy the Holiday Season with the five senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.Von Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 139: Gay Men and Santa Daddy
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Ken discusses gay men and "Santa Daddy," gay men's approaches to Santa Claus, inspired by the song, "Santa Baby," and inspiration for the holiday season.Von Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 138: Gay Men and How To Reach Your Full Potential
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Ken discusses the most common unconscious barriers gay men have to reaching their full potential from 30 years practicing therapy and coaching for gay men.Von Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 137: Gay Men and Spirituality: Reclaiming Your Rights
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Ken discusses how gay men can reclaim their right to spirituality even after abuse by religious institutions.Von Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 136: What Is Daily Mental Health for Gay Men?
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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)Von Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 135: Top 10 Reasons Gay Couples Break Up and How to Prevent Them
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Ken describes the Top 10 reasons gay male couples break up, as observed in over 30 years of practice as a gay specialist therapist, and offers a coping strategy to prevent each one.Von Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 134: The Gay Male Executive: Coaching for Success
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Ken describes his role offering Executive Coaching for gay men and its many purposes and functions.Von Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 133: Gay Men, Dating Challenges, and How to Cope with Them
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Ken reviews the most common complaints and challenges from single gay male clients in dating, and how to adaptively cope with each of them.Von Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 132: Lessons for Gay Men from the 'On the Boulevard' Musical
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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.Von Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 131: The Economics of Gay Male Relationships: Time, Energy, Money
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Ken gives tips for gay male relationships managing the economics of time, energy, money, convenience, space, control, and sex.
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Episode 130: Gay Men and Knowing Your Sexual Self
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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.Von Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Ken announces that the audio file for "Episode 129: Gay Men and Superheroes as Role Models" has been corrected due to a previous incomplete audio file, and now listeners can enjoy the complete episode.Von Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 129: Gay Men and Superheroes as Role Models
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(NOTE: This episode was corrected from an earlier recording that was cut off early.) Ken discusses classic superhero characters from comics and movies, who they are, what they mean for gay men, and what we can learn from them.Von Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 128: Gay Men and Moving On in Life After Trauma
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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.Von Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 127: Balance and Reciprocity in Gay Men's Dating and Relationships
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Ken discusses areas of gay men's relationships that can feel out of balance, and how to re-establish fairness and equality in those areas for the long term.Von Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 126: Gay Men and Coping with Cheating
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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.Von Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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Episode 15: How Can I Prevent My Gay Male Partner from Cheating? The Six Main Reasons and Their Fixes
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Ken reviews the top six factors for gay men in breaking a monogamy agreement in gay male relationships, and what the "fix" for each one is.Von Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
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