Columns

Is your life not very stimulating? Do you have too much time on your hands and are starting to get depressed? Have you retired early [...]

Life is so serious: everyone you know has so many problems. The world is in such a bad place. What can we do? Of course, [...]

Dear Michael: I pride myself on being able to talk respectfully to almost everybody. I used to be a social worker and now I’m a [...]

Unfortunately, breaking up with someone is a part of life. We usually dread it because it’s painful and it hurts. How can we make it [...]

The word “trauma” is quite popular these days. We’ve all experienced some kind of “trauma”; yet, one person’s trauma is another person’s minor problem. As [...]

Recently, I was interviewed by a freelance gay reporter from NYC about open relationships. He found me through my book, “The Gay Man’s Guide to [...]

For Pride month 2022, I was asked by Chief Petty Officer Ronald Meija, Commander of Mine Division 12, San Diego, to speak to a group [...]

As a psychotherapist, I get questions about this topic from my clients, a few of whom have asked me to write a column about it. [...]

It’s a tough time to be alive. There’s so much crap in the world swirling around us that even the most grounded and together people [...]

About twenty years’ ago, I started offering free workshops at the San Diego LGBTQ Center. Over the years, I’ve created/facilitated about thirty different workshops, on [...]

While reading several books about the global acceleration of technology, it was predicted that the highest paying jobs in the future will be those that [...]

As a psychotherapist, people often ask me about the difference between anxiety and depression; often they lump the two together, saying things like, “My doctor [...]