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Gay Men and Gay Male Couples: Improve Your Relationships, Career, Health, Social Life, and Finances

(If you just want to contact me right away, call 310-726-HELP(4357), or email me at Ken@GayTherapyLA.com)

Welcome!

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In my free newsletter, “Self-Empowerment: Have the Life You Want!”, I’ll provide you with tips on how to address common challenges guys face about your career, relationships, finances, family, social life and more, including how to get the most out of life, be successful as a person in the gay community, and cope with common life challenges that I work with clients on every day in my clinical counseling and coaching practice. (Privacy is important to all of us; therefore, I will not sell, rent, or give your name or email address to anyone).

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What do you want to CHANGE about your life?

Depression/Anxiety/Stress

Are you feeling depressed, such as not feeling good about yourself, feeling that no one is really there for you, being unmotivated, losing enthusiasm for work or life, or that the future looks dull or mundane?
Are you feeling stressed about work before the day even begins, or exhausted from stress once it’s over?
Have you been anxious, on-edge, or sleepless, due to some stressful condition or event?
Are you anxious due to something related to the Recession and economy, such as being laid off from your job?
Are you trying to get control of anger?
Are you trying to deal with the feelings and memories of having been abused when you were younger – physically, emotionally, or sexually?

Career

Do you dream of changing your career, or opening your own business?
Do you want to learn how to better cope with the job you have?
Are you a small business owner, but you want to learn how to be more successful (whatever that means for YOU), earn more money, be more focused, get more business/customers, or get along better with your employees or co-workers?
Are you an executive who needs a private and discreet setting to talk about personal or work issues?

Relationships

Are you and a boyfriend or partner not having sex?
Are you having sex outside your relationship and you’re feeling like there is no one safe to talk about it with?
Do you have a partner you love, but you’re frustrated that the two of you argue too frequently about chores, sex, drinking, money, or stress?
Are issues of jealousy or suspicion affecting the quality of your relationship?
Are you frustrated that time keeps going by, you get older, and you still don’t have a boyfriend or partner?

Health

Are you scared of what the future may hold because you’ve recently tested positive for HIV?
Do you have a chronic health condition, and need emotional support to cope with it?
Does a partner or family member have a serious health condition that’s affecting you?

Substances

Do you have concerns that you are drinking too much, or using party drugs too often?
Do you have concerns about an addiction other than drugs or alcohol, such as sex, gambling, food, or spending?
Are you, or someone you love, concerned, worried, or scared by your use of crystal meth or another recreational drug?

If so, that’s great! Because that is what I help guys with all day, every day, Monday-Friday as a professional, licensed psychotherapist and coach with over 18 years of professional experience helping guys like YOU, who have had problems like YOU — and solved them!

What is the VALUE of hiring Ken Howard, LCSW as your personal therapist/coach?

I help you to…

Depression/Anxiety/Stress

Feel better about yourself, become more motivated, and reinvigorate your outlook.
Come to terms with stressful events and feel confident and empowered
Reduce stress, and find ways to be energized and involved in your life.
Cope with the Recession adapatively and confidently; stabilize your life again
Learn to relax and manage anger
Feel more relaxed and comfortable in situations that used to provoke anxiety
Come to terms with being an abuse survivor, process what happened, heal through the pain, and live well on the other side of it

Career

Develop strategies for taking control of your career and planning your dreams to become reality
Learn techniques for surviving and thriving while in the same job
Take your business to the next level of success, income, and influence
Plan your career, learn new skills, prepare for advanced education, or improve professional networking
Learn to get the most out of your staff, and have more time for your life
For more on how I help gay men achieve the careers they want, read here: http://www.gaytherapyla.com/?page_id=29

Relationships

Learn how to “thaw” a sexual relationship that’s become frozen
Come to terms with an affair – yours or his
Learn the skills of commitment, communication, and compromise that lead to easy chores, better sex, clearer finances and lower stress
Resolve issues of mistrust and jealousy, to realistically commit to one another
Gain assertive communication skills to ask for — and get — what you want
Learn how to be the Eligible Bachelor you want to be, to find a relationship
Learn to love your body – not battle it
Develop strategies for social anxiety to be less isolated, and put yourself confidently “out there” so you can meet someone you like — or love
To read more on how I help gay men cope with jealousy and mistrust in relationships, read here: http://www.gaytherapyla.com/?page_id=99
For more on how I help gay men with various relationship issues, read here: http://www.gaytherapyla.com/?page_id=13

Health

Learn how to survive — and THRIVE – with HIV – and that life does go on, your dreams are still possible and important, and that you can be healthy and confident again. (I know; I’ve been living with HIV successfully myself for over 20 years now…)
Learn how to cope with other chronic health conditions, to live your best life now
Learn how to support someone you love with a serious illness – without losing YOURSELF
For more information on how I help gay men cope with living with HIV, read here: http://www.gaytherapyla.com/?page_id=14

Substances/Addictions

Feel heard and understood about what substances mean to you
Understand the relationship to a substance – its good and bad qualities
Learn to be liberated from the tyrrany of addiction
Understand what “sex addiction” is – and what it’s not (hint: it starts with self-esteem, and it ends with REALLY GOOD sex)
For more on how I help gay men overcome addictions, read here: http://www.gaytherapyla.com/?page_id=25

How I Work

I provide you with a private, safe, confidential space to come each week, at a time set aside just for you, with my undivided attention, where you can work toward goals that are important to you that support your quality of life.

The theme of my practice is “Self-Empowerment” — which is developing and evoking the power in YOURSELF to address the things that bother you, and achieve a much higher quality of life — through various psychological techniques, strategies, and resources that I will teach you.

Many people think they have to really “need” therapy to work with a therapist; that’s not true. Our work can begin whenever you WANT it to. There is really no such thing as people who “need” therapy versus people who don’t. Everyone could benefit from knowing themselves better and setting goals to improve their life. Everyone “needs” therapy who simply wants to make a change in their life, or who wants to reach an important goal, and could use some support to do it.

The most common technique I use is called the cognitive-behavioral approach. This is a very interactive technique to change the way you think about yourself, which changes the way you feel, which changes your behaviors, which then changes your life. With some people, I also draw from a more casual “life coaching” approach, where you learn how to get more things done, deal with anger, manage your time, deal with drinking or using, make a budget, plan your career, feel better about yourself, or communicate better with others.

I draw on over 18 years of professional experience in providing counseling, psychotherapy, and coaching to gay men just like you, and from my own lifetime experience as a gay man. Of course, I also work with lesbians, and with non-gay men and women. Working with gay men has been a specialty of my practice, research, writing, and expertise, throughout my career.

To contact me for more information or a free brief telephone consultation, or to schedule an appointment, call 310-726-HELP (4357) or email me at ken@gaytherapyla.com. For a map/directions to my office, click here: http://www.gaytherapyla.com/?page_id=31

To read my blog, a humorous take on current events from the perspective of gay male therapist, click here: http://www.gaytherapyla.com/?page_id=246

For testimonials and comments from previous clients and colleagues in the community, read here: http://www.gaytherapyla.com/?page_id=132

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