Gay Therapy La With Ken Howard, Lcsw

Ken gives a list of essential mental health coping skills for success for actors, writers, designers, and other creative professionals. 

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. 

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?

Ken discusses why nerds make the best boyfriends for gay men and other tips for gay men's dating. 

Ken discusses how the classic "Big Five" personality traits of Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism apply to understanding gay men. 

Ken describes how using Problem-Solving Therapy can help reduce overwhelm/stress in the midst of COVID-19 and police brutality. 

Ken gives tips on how gay open relationships can overcome jealousy, STI risk, privacy, and other challenges. 

Ken discusses how to reach your life goals by making the most of your past, present, and future. 

Ken describes 4 main emotional reactions to COVID-19, and the 5 "coping types" among gay men observed in clinical practice.

Ken discusses crisis situations gay men can face like discrimination, financial, health, and personal losses, and how to cope with them.

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

Ken discusses how to cope with the mental health aspects of the current COVID-19 pandemic, inspired by a Broadway show song.

Ken gives tips on working from home during the COVID-19 crisis, with an emphasis on gay men and mental health considerations. 

Feeling anxious?  Ken gives tips on how to manage and anxiety, prevent it, and cope with it. 

In the second part of the gay men and resilience discussion, Ken lists specific techniques that can help. 

Ken gives tips on how gay men can cultivate resilience to face any crisis/challenge, by adapting certain cognitive/behavioral traits. 

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.