GayTherapyLA is a private practice for psychotherapy and coaching services, with Ken Howard, LCSW, CST, as its founder and director, with over 29 years experience providing services for gay men, as individuals and couples, with offices in Los Angeles and serving others nationwide in the U.S. or guys all over the world via phone or webcam sessions. Ken and his associates provide help for gay men to achieve their optimum 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 2021 by Ken Howard, LCSW, all rights reserved)
Episode 131: The Economics of Gay Male Relationships: Time, Energy, Money
Ken gives tips for gay male relationships managing the economics of time, energy, money, convenience, space, control, and sex.
8/13/2023 • 30 minutes, 32 seconds
Episode 119: Gay Men and Kink Sexual Health: Notes from the 2022 CLAW Conference
Ken 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.
12/12/2022 • 41 minutes, 4 seconds
Episode 91: Gay Men Coping with ED: The Emotional, Physical, and Interpersonal
Ken Howard, LCSW, CST, discusses the contributing factors in erectile dysfunction (ED) in gay men, the emotional, physical, interpersonal, and cultural.
8/25/2021 • 19 minutes, 15 seconds
Episode 90: For a Job, For a Guy, For a Change: Gay Men and the Decision to Relocate
Ken discusses how gay men make the decision to relocate to a different town, city, state, or country and the reasons why.
8/3/2021 • 37 minutes, 32 seconds
Episode 86: COVID's End as Trauma Recovery in Gay Men
Ken describes how the end of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in many regions can mean recovering from a traumatic experience, with the symptoms and phases of recovery in a gay male context.
6/1/2021 • 56 minutes, 18 seconds
Episode 73: Gay Relationships and the ‘Sexual Thaw’: Restoring Sex After a Long Stalemate
Ken Howard, LCSW, gives tips to gay male couples who no longer have sex, and practical ways to "thaw" the stalemate and restore sex.
12/9/2020 • 41 minutes, 23 seconds
Episode 44: How Gay Men Can Develop Resilience - Part 1 - Traits
Ken gives tips on how gay men can cultivate resilience to face any crisis/challenge, by adapting certain cognitive/behavioral traits.
3/16/2020 • 15 minutes, 32 seconds
Episode 35: Gay Men's Birthdays, Self-Esteem, and The Meaning of Life
Ken gives tips on how birthdays are an especially poignant time for gay men, and relates them to self-esteem.