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    LET’S SWIPE: Queer Dating Sites
    Joan Bellsey, LICSW, CAC (she, her, hers)
    • Sep 10, 2018
    • 3 min

    LET’S SWIPE: Queer Dating Sites

    LGBTQ community, especially women, have been left out of the dating app world for quite a while. Looking for a long term commitment can b...
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    Pride Revisited
    Christopher L. Straley, LICSW, CGP
    • Jun 5, 2018
    • 3 min

    Pride Revisited

    As I was reflecting on the upcoming LGBTQ+ Pride event in DC, Capital Pride, I thought back to some of last year’s events and messaging. ...
    185 views0 comments
    5 Things To Consider When Blending Families with Same Sex Parents
    Kimberly Harrell LPC, NCC, ACS
    • Apr 30, 2018
    • 2 min

    5 Things To Consider When Blending Families with Same Sex Parents

    Being a single parent is not easy. When it comes to dating as a single parent, the struggle is real. So, the day that you find yourself...
    180 views0 comments
    #MeToo and the Shame Codex
    R. Jane Gould, LICSW, LCSW-C, LCSW, MSW, M Phil
    • Jan 28, 2018
    • 3 min

    #MeToo and the Shame Codex

    Ruth Bader-Ginsburg recently gave her opinion on a very modern yet age-old issue. "Every woman of my vintage knows what sexual harassment...
    107 views0 comments
    Change Your Focus, Change Your Life
    Maria del Carmen Puig-Casauranc
    • Nov 20, 2017
    • 3 min

    Change Your Focus, Change Your Life

    A professor entered the classroom and asked his students to prepare for a surprise exam. They all waited anxiously at their desks for th...
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    Silenced
    R. Jane Gould, LICSW, LCSW-C, LCSW, MSW, M Phil
    • Sep 18, 2017
    • 4 min

    Silenced

    THE SHAME CODEX - A series of articles for individuals, families and clinicians who are working with abuse. ----- Survivors of extreme a...
    106 views0 comments
    On Visiting Ourselves
    Jane Whitaker, LCSW
    • Aug 21, 2017
    • 4 min

    On Visiting Ourselves

    Do you make regular visits to yourself? -Rumi As a psychotherapist I believe it is a good idea to explore our inner terrain and all the ...
    106 views0 comments
    Male Sexual Performance Anxiety
    Larry Cohen, LICSW
    • Jul 1, 2017
    • 6 min

    Male Sexual Performance Anxiety

    ”Performance” anxiety, indeed! That’s precisely the problem: thinking of sex as a performance, as something we are doing that is being sc...
    329 views0 comments
    Celebrating Pride
    Christopher L. Straley, LICSW, CGP
    • Jun 6, 2017
    • 3 min

    Celebrating Pride

    Pride is the awareness of your own dignity, self-esteem, self-worth, and the experience of pleasure at the achievements of oneself and th...
    95 views0 comments
    "Looking for Love...in All The Wrong Places?"
    Grace Riddell, LICSW, LCSW-C
    • May 1, 2017
    • 4 min

    "Looking for Love...in All The Wrong Places?"

    ARE YOU A LOVE ADDICT? IS LOVE YOUR DRUG? Jim is a 35 y.o. gay man who began psychotherapy because of difficulty finding a man and “settl...
    179 views0 comments
    What's In A Name? A LOT!
    Joan Bellsey, LICSW, CAC (she, her, hers)
    • Apr 3, 2017
    • 4 min

    What's In A Name? A LOT!

    All I know is, one day I felt like I was left out of the Gay club. You too? You thought you knew who you were - Lesbian, Gay, Bi, and ...
    116 views0 comments
    We’re Looking to the Future, by Catching Up With the Past
    lgbtcounselingdc
    • Mar 14, 2017
    • 1 min

    We’re Looking to the Future, by Catching Up With the Past

    The pre-modern Hawaiians acknowledged 8 different forms of gender; our high tech world is only now beginning to catch up. Over the past ...
    104 views0 comments
    THE SHAME CODEX
    R. Jane Gould, LICSW, LCSW-C, LCSW, MSW, M Phil
    • Mar 8, 2017
    • 3 min

    THE SHAME CODEX

    I work with the long-term wounded every day in my job as a psychotherapist; one of my clients described herself as “the walking dead.” Now...
    80 views0 comments
    Hope & Change
    Sid Binks, PhD, ABPP-CN
    • Feb 1, 2017
    • 2 min

    Hope & Change

    Many folks entering therapy come with hope for change while others come without hope or with hope dashed and little ability to imagine ch...
    163 views0 comments
    Body-Mind Therapy for Anxiety and Trauma
    Jane Whitaker, LCSW
    • Jan 10, 2017
    • 4 min

    Body-Mind Therapy for Anxiety and Trauma

    It is challenging to seek therapy when you are fearful. Whether your symptoms are high levels of anxiety, panic attacks, or symptoms foll...
    53 views0 comments
    Overcoming Our Upsetting Thoughts
    Larry Cohen, LICSW
    • Nov 15, 2016
    • 5 min

    Overcoming Our Upsetting Thoughts

    How awful!! This disastrous election will undo all the progress we have made for LGBT rights and for other human rights! If I assert my o...
    57 views0 comments
    You Have Always Known You Were "Different"
    Maria del Carmen Puig-Casauranc
    • Feb 11, 2016
    • 4 min

    You Have Always Known You Were "Different"

    It feels like it has been since forever, that you knew you were “different” even though you did not really know for a long time what that...
    86 views0 comments
    The Hero's Journey and Finding Home:
Gender Transition in the Digital Age
    R. Jane Gould, LICSW, LCSW-C, LCSW, MSW, M Phil
    • Jan 10, 2016
    • 3 min

    The Hero's Journey and Finding Home: Gender Transition in the Digital Age

    Each one of us is a hero on our own life journey, whether we are male or female, whether or not we bring home the Golden Fleece. We have...
    55 views0 comments
    Social Anxiety & Coming Out
    Larry Cohen, LICSW
    • Dec 15, 2015
    • 2 min

    Social Anxiety & Coming Out

    I'm fundamentally different, and don't fit in. I'm not worthwhile unless I'm accepted by those I admire. I can't be accepted by others un...
    61 views0 comments
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