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 this starting I work to creatively assist you in developing greater insight into your own strengths and unresolved conflicts, in taking healthy steps to unblock what has felt stuck, and in developing greater personal empowerment and satisfaction.
As a therapist, I continue to find great gratification in guiding someone like you through life's unplanned obstacles, even the most difficult ones. As a gay man and as a person of color, I can especially appreciate and acknowledge the contributive influences of your particular cultural background, family dynamics, sexuality, gender and different identities that enrich who you are.
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 this starting I work to creatively assist you in developing greater insight into your own strengths and unresolved conflicts, in taking healthy steps to unblock what has felt stuck, and in developing greater personal empowerment and satisfaction.
As a therapist, I continue to find great gratification in guiding someone like you through life's unplanned obstacles, even the most difficult ones. As a gay man and as a person of color, I can especially appreciate and acknowledge the contributive influences of your particular cultural background, family dynamics, sexuality, gender and different identities that enrich who you are.
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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.
Or maybe the small day-to-day tasks are overwhelming and immobilizing.
You might find it difficult to identify and express your feelings prohibiting greater personal fulfillment and self-assuredness in your life.
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.
Or maybe the small day-to-day tasks are overwhelming and immobilizing.
You might find it difficult to identify and express your feelings prohibiting greater personal fulfillment and self-assuredness in your life.
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.
This integral component of who you are will not be left at the door but will instead be fully appreciated and regarded.
I offer skillful experience to assist you in alleviating a whole range of possible stresses that weave in and out of your life, that may also be intertwined with your most valuable identity.
This integral component of who you are will not be left at the door but will instead be fully appreciated and regarded.
I offer skillful experience to assist you in alleviating a whole range of possible stresses that weave in and out of your life, that may also be intertwined with your most valuable identity.
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.
In service of more compassionate and empathic treatment of LGBTQ clients, the mental health community is also ethically obligated to pay attention to how this shows up within the lives of heterosexual and LGBTQ practitioners.
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.
In service of more compassionate and empathic treatment of LGBTQ clients, the mental health community is also ethically obligated to pay attention to how this shows up within the lives of heterosexual and LGBTQ practitioners.
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.
For a long time I was only into white guys.
However, I now realize that this isn't just about who I am attracted to.
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.
For a long time I was only into white guys.
However, I now realize that this isn't just about who I am attracted to.
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.
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.
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