Are you finding yourself at a pivotal moment where emotional pain, confusion, or feeling lost in bringing you to a standstill? This can be accompanied with depression, anxiety, identity challenges, relationship issues - or other experiences in your own individual journey that can feel overwhelming and frightening to navigate through without professional support.
With 20 years of experience, as your therapist I start by establishing a safe and trusting therapeutic partnership with you to skillfully hear what your underlying hurt, stress or pain might be related to.
With 20 years of experience, as your therapist I start by establishing a safe and trusting therapeutic partnership with you to skillfully hear what your underlying hurt, stress or pain might be related to.
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Are you at a crossroads where the challenges you are facing feel overwhelming and seemingly unbearable or unsolvable? Challenges that might be related to current relationships or perhaps you desire more satisfying relationships. You might be at a stage in your life with big decisions to make - around romance, career, retirement, health and more.
If you are an LGBTQ+ individual coming to me for therapy, I hold a firm belief in your exceptional and unquestioned value rooted in your unique identity - that you are worthy of feeling good about yourself, worthy of being successful and productive in all your life's endeavors, and that you are worthy of experiencing loving relationships with yourself and with others.
Headcase is important reading for any LGBTQ persons with mental health and wellness concerns, and is equally important for the therapists who treat such populations. It will challenge - and disturb - many complacencies and assumptions, and that is clearly where its value lies. The compulsory heteronormativity embedded in Western culture means that none of us is immune to the effects of heterosexism and homo/bi/lesbian/transphobia.
Statements like this on gay internet dating sites bring up many feelings for me as a gay Japanese Latino man. Hurt, anger, shame, confusion. We see society struggling with racism, heterosexism and homophobia. Destructive ways of oppressing a "someone" who then becomes - the "other." So it is not surprising then that this could also affect how we relate to each other as diverse gay men.
As many of you may have read, in a study from the UK, almost 50% of gay men in the survey said they would sacrifice one year of their life for the perfect body. What an alarming indication of the emphasis on extroverted physical values to feel attractive and worthy of attention.
Yet I would suggest that this reveals a tragically missed deeper soulful meaning about ourselves as gay men that is needed to stand up against a fiercely consumeristic, one-sided body-centered narrative of gayness that often masks the anxiety-ridden lonely existence so many gay men experience.
Yet I would suggest that this reveals a tragically missed deeper soulful meaning about ourselves as gay men that is needed to stand up against a fiercely consumeristic, one-sided body-centered narrative of gayness that often masks the anxiety-ridden lonely existence so many gay men experience.
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