Growing up as a man in society brings unique gender, gender norms, and gender expression problems. Western culture brings with it sometimes unhelpful messages about masculinity: that men must be tough, not show emotions, enact violence, and gain power and status. Men are less likely to seek out mental health therapists than other genders. Men must recognize seeking treatment for mental health concerns doesn’t make them less masculine or manly. It implies that they acknowledge that their health is vital.
Available Treatment Options
Counselors can help men work through the hesitancy to talk about mental health within therapy sessions. Some men may benefit from seeing a therapist who also identifies as a man, as the shared knowledge of the impact of their gender can facilitate the healing process.
Therapists Who Specialize in Helping Those Who Struggle With Men's Issues
The Counseling and Wellness Center is a group practice in the Columbus, Ohio area. Clinicians hold dual licenses in mental health and addiction counseling. Clinicians within the practice are also certified mediators and trained in divorce settlements, and resolutions of assets between businesses and personal relationships. In addition, their areas of expertise include marriage and family...
The Institute for Personal Growth (IPG) has been a kink-friendly psychotherapy provider, and we have worked with consensually nonmonogamous relationships, since our inception in 1983. Our team of around 30 psychotherapists across three NJ locations (Highland Park, Jersey City, and Freehold) has personal and professional experience with alternative sexual orientations and lifestyles. You may not...
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Anna Marchenko is a licensed mental health counselor with specialized training in trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), addiction, family counseling, and hypnotherapy. She earned her double Master's degree from Columbia University, New York. She continued her post-graduate education at International Institute of Interpersonal Hypnotherapy and worked at Mount Sinai Hospital and CSEDN...
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