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Episode 63: Gay Men and Discipline: The Secret Weapon to Achieving Your Goals

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - August 09, 2020 01:22 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Ken gives tips on how developing self-discipline can help you achieve what you want to do, be, or have, offering solutions to the things that get in your way. 

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Episode 62: Gay Male Creative Professionals: Celebrating Success, Managing Challenges

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - July 30, 2020 18:15 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Ken gives a list of essential mental health coping skills for success for actors, writers, designers, and other creative professionals. 

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Episode 61: Must-Have Money Conversations for Every Gay Relationship

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - July 18, 2020 21:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Ken discusses an article by Elyssa Kirkham on the 7 must-have money conversations to have before cohabitation or marriage, but from a gay male perspective. 

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Episode 60: Gay Men and Alcohol: The Relationship with the Bottle

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - July 11, 2020 19:29 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Ken asks you to reflect on your "relationship" with alcohol and drugs.  What's the quality of this relationship?  What changes need to be made for your best life? How does one get help?

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Episode 59: Why Nerds Make the Best Boyfriends for Gay Men

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - July 08, 2020 18:28 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Ken discusses why nerds make the best boyfriends for gay men and other tips for gay men's dating. 

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Episode 58: Gay Men and the Big Five Personality Traits

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - June 27, 2020 20:28 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Ken discusses how the classic "Big Five" personality traits of Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism apply to understanding gay men. 

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Episode 57: Gay Men Coping with Stress: Start at the Source

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - June 09, 2020 23:16 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Ken describes how using Problem-Solving Therapy can help reduce overwhelm/stress in the midst of COVID-19 and police brutality. 

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Episode 56: Problem-Solving in Gay Men's Open Relationships

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - May 30, 2020 18:12 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Ken gives tips on how gay open relationships can overcome jealousy, STI risk, privacy, and other challenges. 

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Episode 55: Gay Men Making the Most of Your Past, Present, & Future

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - May 26, 2020 17:04 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Ken discusses how to reach your life goals by making the most of your past, present, and future. 

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Episode 54: Coping with COVID-19 for Gay Men: What Type Are You?

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - May 19, 2020 23:43 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Ken describes 4 main emotional reactions to COVID-19, and the 5 "coping types" among gay men observed in clinical practice.

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Episode 53: Gay Men in Common Crisis Situations & Steps to Handle Them

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - May 12, 2020 18:41 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Ken discusses crisis situations gay men can face like discrimination, financial, health, and personal losses, and how to cope with them.

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Episode 52: Why White Gay Men Should Support Black Lives Matter

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - May 12, 2020 02:15 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
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. 

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Episode 51: Gay Men Coping with Single Life: Tips and Tricks

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - May 02, 2020 21:33 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
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. 

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Episode 50: Three Types of Erectile Dysfunction and their Interventions

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - April 20, 2020 17:42 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
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. 

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Episode 49: The New COVID-19 Coping: Balancing “Toxic Positivity” with “Adaptive Coping”

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - April 14, 2020 19:01 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
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. 

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Episode 48: Gay Men's Mental Health During COVID-19: Next to Normal

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - April 08, 2020 18:31 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Ken discusses how to cope with the mental health aspects of the current COVID-19 pandemic, inspired by a Broadway show song.

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Episode 47: Gay Men and the Mental Health Aspects of Working from Home

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - April 01, 2020 04:44 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Ken gives tips on working from home during the COVID-19 crisis, with an emphasis on gay men and mental health considerations. 

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Episode 46: Gay Men Conquering Anxiety with Probability

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - March 25, 2020 00:44 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Feeling anxious?  Ken gives tips on how to manage and anxiety, prevent it, and cope with it. 

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Episode 45: How Gay Men Can Develop Resilience - Part 2 - Techniques

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - March 16, 2020 18:34 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
In the second part of the gay men and resilience discussion, Ken lists specific techniques that can help. 

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Episode 44: How Gay Men Can Develop Resilience - Part 1 - Traits

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - March 16, 2020 18:11 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Ken gives tips on how gay men can cultivate resilience to face any crisis/challenge, by adapting certain cognitive/behavioral traits. 

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Episode 43: Gay Men and Coronavirus/COVID-19: A Special Kind of Coping

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - March 12, 2020 07:06 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Ken gives tips for gay men for coping with the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic, and takes to task Republican leadership for bungling handling of COVID-19, just like their early mishandling of the AIDS crisis. 

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Episode 42: Ten Ways Gay Men Can Handle Hard Conflict

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - March 10, 2020 17:30 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Gay men's specialist therapist and coach, Ken Howard, LCSW, gives 10 ways gay men can cope with interpersonal conflicts that every life has.  

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Episode 41: Gay Men's Dating Skills -Avoiding the Pitfalls of Cash, Connections, C--k

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - February 29, 2020 20:30 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Ken gives tips on how to improve your chances of finding a partner by avoiding the gay men's dating mistakes of emphasizing the wrong things, like his cash, connections, or c--k. 

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Episode 40: Positive Thoughts for Fabulous Living at Every Age for Gay Men

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - February 24, 2020 19:36 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Ken gives tips on how to manage negative thoughts about yourself, the world, and your future, and how to use positive affirmations. 

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Episode 39: Beyond Crystal Meth Recovery: Meth Prevention for Gay Men

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - February 17, 2020 20:04 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Ken discusses how to not only recover from crystal meth abuse, but how gay men can avoid being ensnared by it in the first place, through sex-positive individual and collective public health efforts. 

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Episode 38: Valentines Day for Single Gay Men: Coping with Hope

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - February 11, 2020 22:41 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Ken gives guidance on how single gay men can cope with loneliness and frustration on Valentine's Day. 

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Episode 37: Gay Men and the Serenity of Acceptance, Courage, Wisdom

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - February 11, 2020 19:38 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Ken reviews how gay men can change their lives for the better, with the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, the courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

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Episode 36: Avoiding Four Big Risks of Gay Relationship Breakup

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - February 03, 2020 18:38 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Ken discusses Gottman's "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" for the risks of relationship breakup, and tips for avoiding them.

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Episode 35: Gay Men's Birthdays, Self-Esteem, and The Meaning of Life

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - January 27, 2020 20:32 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Ken gives tips on how birthdays are an especially poignant time for gay men, and relates them to self-esteem. 

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Episode 34: Hotter Monogamy for Gay Men

Gay Therapy LA with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - January 20, 2020 23:09 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratings
Ken describes how gay male couples who choose monogamy can have a hotter sex life without necessarily opening their relationship.

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