GLOW Counseling
Moshe Rozdzial, LPC
Denver, Colorado

Gays & Lesbians Out and Well
Psychotherapy for emotional, sexual, spiritual, and mental health
Gay/GLBT couples, relationships, and intimacy:
Gay and Lesbian relationship and couples counseling:

    Are you coming out later in life and wondering how to proceed?
    Are you dealing with a gay relationship of disparate age, race, religion, or
    culture?
    Are you suffering through a breakup, relationship loss, or infidelity?
    Are you in a mixed-orientation marriage or going through a divorce?
    Are you seeking more emotional and sexual intimacy in your relationship?

Gay and Lesbian couples have the same vision of a mutually supportive,
romantic, and emotionally intimate relationship as straight couples. However,
because of external or internalized homophobia, GLBT persons may struggle
with additional hurdles in forming healthy relationships:

  • Sense of self or relationship as worthless or destined to fail.
  • Lack of social connectedness or family support.
  • Vulnerability to addiction and depression.
  • Dealing with legal, religious, or employment discrimination.
  • Lack of alternative ways to view gender roles.
  • Lack of relationship role models or relational templates.
  • Lack of opportunities to socialize with other gays/lesbians couples.
  • Sexuality and HIV-related issues.
  • Disparities in age, race, power, and cultural background.
  • unequal marriage and civil rights

Example of Gay couples counseling in my Denver, Colorado, mental health
practice:
    In my psychotherapy practice I see Gay and lesbian couples in various stages of
    relationship development.  

    There are many valid models for Gay relationships and families that must be
    affirmed. For example, I'm currently working with a gay male couple consisting of a
    recently out, divorced, older, professional white man, with a daughter still living at
    home, and a younger African American student, who has been out for many years
    and who has never been a parent. This is not an uncommon phenomenon in gay
    relationship formation, with men or women of very different economic, ethnic, age,
    and cultural perspectives establishing and maintaining long term relationships.

    Although some degree of difference between partners may be important for
    solidifying intimate relationships, homosexual relationships with disparate life and
    cultural experiences may be vulnerable to misunderstandings, conflicts, and
    miscommunication.  With this couple it was very important to address the issue of
    power and position in the relationship, to uncover the different needs and
    insecurities, and to affirm and bring understanding to the different styles and
    perspectives that energize the relationship.

Click here for more on LGBT centered therapy in my Denver, Colorado Gay mental health practice.
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Click here for more on substance abuse, alcoholism, and sex addiction in the LGBT community.
Click here for more on bisexuality counseling in my Denver, Colorado GLBT mental health practice.
Click here for more on GLBT domestic abuse and violence in my Denver Gay therapy practice.
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Click here for more on grief counseling in my Denver Gay counseling practice.

CALL NOW! For a free, confidential, phone consultation: 303-399-2314.
Located at 3500 E. 17th Ave., #3, Denver, Colorado,  80206--info@glowcounseling.com
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"Gay and Lesbian
couples have the
same vision of a
mutually supportive,
romantic, and
emotionally intimate
relationship as
straight couples".