Gay Affirmative Psychotherapy Supervision Available Now

Are you a psychotherapist or someone in the mental health profession working with gays and lesbians and would like supervision to learn better how to help your clients?

Contact Joe Kort at 248-399-7447 or e-mail at [email protected]

Queer Ear for the Straight Therapist:
Helping Straight Clinicians Work with Gays and Lesbians

As a psychotherapist, if you have gay clients, it’s not enough to be gay-friendly.  The fact is, even the best-intentioned therapists have some level of homophobia to overcome.  From birth, heterosexist culture imprints us to think that heterosexuality is primary, and that any other orientation is inferior.  It’s not even enough to be gay yourself.

Gay or straight, we’re taught the homonegative belief that the alternate lifestyle of being gay is a more difficult way to live.  But the alternative of living heterosexually is actually harder for gay men, and can lead only to depression and self-defeating, or even self-destructive behaviors.

Learn the issues gay men face.  They may surprise you.

Gay Affirmative Psychotherapy, Training for Mental Health Professionals based on the book, “10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do To Improve Their Lives.”

Contact Joe Kort for dates and times at [email protected]

This training and book is for gay men and their families, as well as all human service professionals.  This book will help you:

• address your own heterosexism and homophobia
• assess the stages of coming out
• help your client resolve family issues
• know the facts and clinical data of helping gay relationships
• apply Imago Relationship Therapy in working with gay couples
• determine if your client is a sex addict
• provide gay affirmative psychotherapy

 ”Joe Kort has written a fine book. He writes well, grounds his insights in theory, appropriately shares his personal experience and provides clear guidance for gay men to accept themselves and learn how to create and sustain a durable and loving relationship. I recommend it to its intended audience and to the straight community who want to be better informed about gay relationships.” Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. author, Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples