Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST
150 episodes - English - Latest episode: 21 days ago - ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsGayTherapyLA 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 substitute for therapy and is provided as educational information only, these episodes reflect the work done at GayTherapyLA with clients, daily. Your questions and comments are welcome! (copyright 2024 by Ken Howard, LCSW, CST, all rights reserved).
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Episodes
Episode 147: Gay Men and How to Recover from a Breakup
April 05, 2024 05:46 - 41 minutes - 52.2 MBBased 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.
Episode 146: Gay Men and Starting Your Own Business
March 22, 2024 00:26 - 54 minutes - 69 MBKen 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.
Episode 145: Gay Men and How to Be a Better Lover
March 12, 2024 03:28 - 36 minutes - 47.5 MBKen 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.
Episode 144: Gay Men and Wealth: Coping with Rewards and Challenges
February 25, 2024 02:26 - 1 hour - 73.8 MBGay 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.
Episode 143: Seven Ways to Enhance a Gay Men's Relationship for Satisfaction and Longevity
February 04, 2024 07:05 - 32 minutes - 39.6 MBGay 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.
Episode 142: Gay Men and the Emotional Benefits of Kink Play
January 23, 2024 23:43 - 40 minutes - 49.7 MBKen describes the emotional benefits of kink play for gay men, with their implications for daily life and personal self-empowerment.
Episode 141: Gay Men and Gender Role Enforcement Rage
January 14, 2024 20:44 - 49 minutes - 62.6 MBKen describes Gender Role Enforcement Rage: what it is, who is doing it, its harms, and what to do about it.
Episode 140: Gay Men, the Holiday Season, and the Five Senses
December 21, 2023 04:52 - 16 minutes - 21.5 MBKen takes a Mindfulness look at how gay men can enjoy the Holiday Season with the five senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.
Episode 139: Gay Men and Santa Daddy
December 09, 2023 00:44 - 18 minutes - 22.5 MBKen 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.
Episode 138: Gay Men and How To Reach Your Full Potential
November 19, 2023 04:38 - 44 minutes - 54.2 MBKen discusses the most common unconscious barriers gay men have to reaching their full potential from 30 years practicing therapy and coaching for gay men.
Episode 137: Gay Men and Spirituality: Reclaiming Your Rights
November 08, 2023 05:23 - 21 minutes - 26.9 MBKen discusses how gay men can reclaim their right to spirituality even after abuse by religious institutions.
Episode 136: What Is Daily Mental Health for Gay Men?
October 28, 2023 22:48 - 33 minutes - 42 MBKen 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)
Episode 135: Top 10 Reasons Gay Couples Break Up and How to Prevent Them
October 16, 2023 19:36 - 50 minutes - 61.1 MBKen 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.
Episode 134: The Gay Male Executive: Coaching for Success
October 07, 2023 17:57 - 45 minutes - 56.5 MBKen describes his role offering Executive Coaching for gay men and its many purposes and functions.
Episode 133: Gay Men, Dating Challenges, and How to Cope with Them
September 24, 2023 03:59 - 53 minutes - 64.8 MBKen reviews the most common complaints and challenges from single gay male clients in dating, and how to adaptively cope with each of them.
Episode 132: Lessons for Gay Men from the 'On the Boulevard' Musical
August 28, 2023 21:43 - 33 minutes - 42 MBKen 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.
Episode 131: The Economics of Gay Male Relationships: Time, Energy, Money
August 13, 2023 07:15 - 30 minutes - 38 MBKen gives tips for gay male relationships managing the economics of time, energy, money, convenience, space, control, and sex.
Episode 130: Gay Men and Knowing Your Sexual Self
July 18, 2023 06:17 - 34 minutes - 42.3 MBGay 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.
Episode 129: Correction Announcement for Audio File
July 03, 2023 04:42 - 28 seconds - 634 KBKen 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.
Episode 129: Gay Men and Superheroes as Role Models
June 28, 2023 04:22 - 41 minutes - 52.4 MB(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.
Episode 128: Gay Men and Moving On in Life After Trauma
June 13, 2023 02:43 - 44 minutes - 55.3 MBKen discusses traumatic experiences such as child abuse, illness, accidents, crime, and interpersonal betrayals and the long-term coping in life for each of these.
Episode 127: Balance and Reciprocity in Gay Men's Dating and Relationships
May 18, 2023 21:02 - 31 minutes - 38 MBKen 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.
Episode 126: Gay Men and Coping with Cheating
April 30, 2023 02:23 - 59 minutes - 74.8 MBKen 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.
Episode 15: How Can I Prevent My Gay Male Partner from Cheating? The Six Main Reasons and Their Fixes
April 25, 2023 02:14 - 29 minutes - 6.85 MBKen 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.
Episode 125: Gay Men, Activism, and Social Conscience
April 08, 2023 03:14 - 38 minutes - 47 MBKen discusses the history of LGBT civil rights activism and how we can all contribute in our own ways to the movement.
Episode 124: Gay Men and Mixing Your Boyfriend with Your Friends
March 19, 2023 02:03 - 23 minutes - 27.6 MBKen gives tips on how to navigate mixing a new boyfriend with your existing group of friends or family, and how to cope with the most common challenges.
Episode 123: Gay Men and the Function/Purpose of Casual Hookups
March 04, 2023 04:30 - 17 minutes - 21.9 MBKen discusses the functions and purposes that casual hookups for gay men can be, and the importance of affirming our own sexual self-empowerment.
Episode 122: Gay Men and Life Lessons We Can Learn from Actors
February 05, 2023 22:56 - 23 minutes - 28.3 MBKen gives tips on the life lessons gay men can learn from actors in the entertainment industry, about character, sex, and telling our stories.
Episode 121: Gay Men and When Our Mentors Have Flaws
January 23, 2023 00:17 - 37 minutes - 45.1 MBKen discusses how to cope when our mentors have flaws: parents, teachers, professors, bosses, work mentors, and therapist/coaches, and how to cope when they disappoint us.
Episode 120: Gay Men and New Year, New Sex: Mind, Heart, Body
January 09, 2023 20:55 - 25 minutes - 30.8 MBKen discusses how to make positive changes in the new year in how you approach your sex life in your mind, heart, and body.
Episode 119: Gay Men and Kink Sexual Health: Notes from the 2022 CLAW Conference
December 12, 2022 01:56 - 41 minutes - 48.4 MBKen attended the 2022 CLAW (Cleveland Leather Awareness Weekend) Conference in Los Angeles, and gives tips from the kink education seminars for gay men he attended there.
Episode 118: Gay Men Who Have Given Up On Finding a Relationship
November 06, 2022 22:38 - 35 minutes - 43.1 MBKen discusses how gay men can cope with the frustrations of being single when you want a partner, and how we can rally our internal and external resources to be at our best.
Episode 117: Gay Men Overcoming Specific Traumas - PART TWO
October 19, 2022 23:12 - 31 minutes - 39.8 MBKen discusses gay men overcoming specific traumas related to the workplace, family of origin, political, and social/peer areas, and tips for how to cope with them triumphantly.
Episode 116: Gay Men Overcoming Specific Traumas - PART ONE
October 19, 2022 22:34 - 32 minutes - 40.2 MBKen discusses gay men overcoming specific traumatic experiences that can be medical, legal, academic, or criminal, and tips for coping triumphantly with each of them.
Episode 115: Gay Men and Pets: Challenges and Rewards
September 19, 2022 23:14 - 31 minutes - 39 MBKen discusses the rewards and challenges for gay men with pets, and some cognitive/behavioral coping strategies for each of them.
Episode 114: PART TWO - Gay Men’s Dating Situations That Are “No-Go” – And Their Alternatives
August 31, 2022 19:13 - 31 minutes - 39.5 MBIn the second of this two-part episode, Ken discusses more "deal breakers" in gay men's dating, and gives tips for their alternatives.
Episode 113: Gay Men’s Dating Situations That Are “No-Go” – And Their Alternatives – PART ONE
August 23, 2022 01:38 - 29 minutes - 36.6 MBIn Part One of this two-part episode, Ken gives guidance on six of the most common dating "no-go's" for gay men, how to cope with them and their alternatives.
Episode 112: Gay Men and the Mental Health Aspects of Monkey Pox
August 07, 2022 02:39 - 32 minutes - 40.6 MBA discussion of the mental health and sociio-political impacts of Monkey Pox for gay men, and how to cope with them.
Episode 111: Gay Men and Trauma Recovery: Reclaiming Your Life
July 10, 2022 01:26 - 39 minutes - 48.2 MBGay men's specialist psychotherapist, life/career/executive coach, and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist Ken Howard, LCSW, CST, gives an overview of gay men and recovering from trauma to reclaim our lives.
Episode 110: PART TWO: Gay Men and Kink: Sensory Enhancements to Sex
June 28, 2022 22:28 - 30 minutes - 37.4 MBIn this Part Two of "Gay Men and Kink: Sensory Enhancements to Sex: Materials, Circumstances, and Fabrics: An Overview", Ken Howard, LCSW, CST, gives information on how leather, rubber, and other materials can be used in erotic play for gay men.
Episode 109: Gay Men and Kink: Sensory Enhancements to Sex - An Overview (Part One)
June 20, 2022 00:30 - 41 minutes - 52 MBLicensed psychotherapist and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist Ken Howard, LCSW, CST, provides an overview for gay men of the materials and circumstances for kink play in a safe and consensual context.
Episode 108: Gay Men, Pride Season, and Summer Lovin'
June 05, 2022 01:47 - 16 minutes - 18.6 MBKen Howard, LCSW, CST, offers stories about LGBT Pride Season 2022, and the value of the summer vacation romance.
Episode 107: Gay Men and Reconciling Your Religious Beliefs with Your Sexuality
May 19, 2022 22:08 - 24 minutes - 30.1 MBGay men's specialist licensed psychotherapist and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist offers perspectives on reconciling your religious beliefs with your sexuality.
Episode 106: Gay Men and Mismatched Libidos: Navigating Difference
May 01, 2022 21:12 - 26 minutes - 32.8 MBGay men's specialist sex therapist Ken Howard, LCSW, CST, gives tips for gay male couples to manage mismatched libidos and desire discrepancy.
Episode 105: Gay Men's Sexuality: Focus on the Five Senses for Better Functionality
April 12, 2022 18:49 - 21 minutes - 26.5 MBKen discusses how to focus on the five senses - sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch -- to enhance a gay man's sexual experience, reduce anxiety, and improve sexual functioning.
Episode 104: Gay Men and How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Dating
March 29, 2022 00:14 - 33 minutes - 42.3 MBKen gives guidance on eight common pitfalls in dating for gay men, and strategies for how to cope with each of them.
Episode 103: Mental Health Aspects of Sexual Health for Gay Men
March 15, 2022 04:03 - 43 minutes - 53.5 MBKen discusses how diagnosable (DSM-5) psychiatric disorders can affect mental health and sexual health for gay men and couples.
Episode 102: Gay Male Relationships: What are the Boundaries Between Partners?
February 23, 2022 18:12 - 30 minutes - 38.5 MBKen describes six areas of boundaries within a gay male relationship to discuss and reduce conflict.
Episode 101: Gay Men and Coping with 'Bad Luck'
February 06, 2022 04:12 - 33 minutes - 40.3 MBKen gives examples of various incidents of bad luck in gay men's lives, with a corresponding coping strategy for each.
Episode 100: Gay Male Relationships and the ADD/OCD Syndrome
January 18, 2022 02:37 - 29 minutes - 36.5 MBKen discusses the challenges in gay male relationships when one partner has traits of ADD/ADHD and the other has traits of OCD/OCPD, and how to create harmony.