Description
"Exploring Our Gay Humanity through Writing, Reading & Self-publishing"—Classes Start April 6, 13, 20, and 27 at $22 per class, via Zoom.
I am excited to synthesize my work as a therapist and professor with 30 years of experience with my work ward-winning author and journalist to offer new classes to the COMMUNITY aimed at jumping-starting as a creativity and therapist.
I’ve learned in working with gay people to help them honor the notion that we were born gay and that we were forced to sacrifice our gifts by growing up in a heteronormative family and society—the assaults to the self, the trauma of growing up gay.
But by helping clients and students don on Rainbow Glasses and return as archaeologists and anthropologists to long-lost buried memories, they can discover KEY MOMENTS when either that inborn gay potential was thwarted or was able to surmount its obstacles to flourish and survive. Parsing apart the positive vision from feelings of trauma can lead to a reauthoring of life and a sense of nobly entering into one’s personal life arts and sciences.
Classes begin Saturday, April 6, from 10:30 a.m. to Noon via Zoom at $22 per class. Module A (April) and Module B (May) will focus on writing and sharing in class. In June, we may add reading; in July, we may add a self-publishing element.
Group Therapist
Dr. Douglas Sadownick is a Professional Psychologist in Los Angeles, CA with a license in Marriage and Family Therapy. For the last 30 years, has has been a professor of clinical psychology at Antioch University, where he has spent the past 20 years training therapists to open their hearts and to engage with vitality and courage. Dr. Sadownick founded and directed the Antioch University LGBT Specialization and Colors LGBTQ Youth Counseling Center, and a result, has access to a host of different methods and approaches, including psychodynamic, existential, feminist, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and somatic.
In sessions, Dr. Sadownick works collaboratively to engage clients in a conversational and respectful way. He strives to consistently check-in during each session to see how the overall treatment is going, and what can be improved. Together, he and clients tcome up with collaborative goals that are designed to help people feel safer emotionally and to have their needs met and to see growth and change!
Dr. Sadownick is respected in the therapist community for advances he has made in training therapists to work with the people of color and queer communities. He is a published award-winning author of two books, and is publishing his next on healing approaches for gay people and also a forthcoming memoir. He is active on YouTube, Substack and TikTok.
