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If you opt for counselling instead, below are listed some of the counsellors we recommend.
DISCLAIMER
We provide these contacts to help self-determined adults in their own work. These are coaches or counsellors that the community has found helpful in addressing their same-sex lust or gender identity issues. The individuals listed below are not endorsed by Strong Support or guarantee of our mission and vision.
ISLAMIC COUNSELLING
Gabriel Keresztes Al Romaani, Positive Islamic Psychology Counsellor
- WhatsApp at +601129091423
- jibreelkeresztes@gmail.com
- Jalan Jambu Berteh, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Gabriel Keresztes Al Romaani is a qualified Existential Well-being and Positive Islamic Psychology counsellor and coach. He is the founder of goldenruleappeal.com and co-founder of ICRAA.org. Born in Romania to a Christian family, he later migrated to Canada in 1998 where he undertook his secondary education.
After studying Islam for some years, he converted in 2003. He is a graduate of Mishkah University (USA) where he completed his Associate’s Degree and his Bachelors in Islamic Studies. Earlier, he graduated with a double major in Biology and Psychology Neuroscience and Cognition and has also graduated from the Faculty of Education (The University of Windsor, Canada). He has a certification in Existential Well-being and Positive Psychology Counseling (University of KU Leuven, Belgium), as well as a certification with specialization in Children and Family Achievers (Positive Islamic Psychology Center and Khalifa Education Foundation, Malaysia).
Gabriel offers counselling for a variety of issues, including LGBTQ and gender identity issues. He even offers free counselling for those who are unable to afford it.
LIFE COACHES
Rich Wyler, Certified Life Coach
Higher Path Life Coaching
and Founder & Director, Brothers on a Road Less Traveled
1-434-227-9346
richwyler@gmail.com (for individual life coaching)
richwyler@brothersroad.org (for questions related to Brothers on a Road Less Traveled or Journey Into Manhood)
Rich is a certified life coach with extensive real-world experience in helping men overcome pornography addictions and address internal conflicts over same-sex attractions, starting with his own healing journey in the 1990s. In 2000, he founded People Can Change (now Brothers on a Road Less Traveled) and in 2002 created its powerful Journey Into Manhood experiential personal-growth weekend. He later created the Journey Continues follow-up weekend and co-created A Wife’s Healing Journey, a weekend supporting women who are married to SSA men.
Building on his skills and experience in facilitating dramatic personal breakthroughs, Rich established Higher Path Life Coaching and began coaching professionally in 2005. Rich has years of experience in 12-Step recovery work and serving in a senior facilitator role with various organizations that focus on deep inner-healing and personal-growth work: Adventure in Manhood, Noble Man, and weekends by Healing for the Soul, among others.
Rich received his life-coaching certification through the Coach Training Alliance in 2007. He holds a bachelor’s degree in communications (public relations) from Brigham Young University. He is the father of a young-adult daughter and son. Widowed in 2006, he remarried in 2010 and lives with his wife in Virginia, USA. You can read about his own experience in therapy at “A Change of Heart.”
Bruce R. Gold, Certified Professional Coach
Private practice in Collegeville, Pennsylvania
Collegeville Healing Center
1-610-489-0496
b.gold@verizon.net
Bruce has trained in modalities including Gestalt Therapy, Shadow Awareness, Imago Therapy, Co-Dependency, Touch Therapy, Voice Dialogue and Shiatsu bodywork. Bruce has extensive experience leading short and long-term men’s and couple’s groups since 1993. He offers counseling on an individual basis for men, women and families addressing addiction, co-dependency, anger, shame and loss, sexual abuse and gender issues. Additionally, Bruce works with clients dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD.
Bruce has been an active participant in various 12 step recovery groups since 1984. Bruce has been a certified co-leader in an intense men’s initiation weekend that invites men to forge a deep conscious connection between head and heart, and that supports men in developing lives of integrity, accountability, and connection to feeling. He has facilitated or led workshops throughout the Northern Hemisphere and Europe. Currently, Bruce maintains a full-time coaching practice in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, where he works with individuals, couples, families and groups. Bruce specializes in personal empowerment by teaching and modeling strength through vulnerability, creating safe and passionate moments of healing.
COUNSELLORS
Andrew Rodriguez, MS
+1 484.644.3502
Andrew Rodriguez is a Christian psychotherapist, speaker, and advocate for therapy equality from Pennsylvania. He sees clients dealing with a wide range of issues but also has a special interest in sexual struggles, such as trauma, addiction, identity, and unwanted same-sex sexual attraction and behavior. He began working in the area of sexuality when he interned at Day Seven Ministries (a former Exodus International member ministry) in 2006. He subsequently founded a support and recovery group for men at his college campus, which he ran for eight years. Andrew earned his BS in Psychology from Valley Forge Christian College (now University of Valley Forge) in 2007 and his MS in Counseling Psychology and Human Services from Chestnut Hill College in 2015. At Chestnut Hill, he faced discrimination for his work with men leaving homosexuality. He is the 2015 recipient of the Joseph Nicolosi Early Career Scholarship Award from the Alliance for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity. He currently counsels at four different practices, and he is on the Advisory Board for Voice of the Voiceless, a Christian advocacy group for the protection of clients with unwanted same-sex eroticization to obtain counseling that fits their goals and values. Andrew also runs a YouTube channel called PsychoBible, in which he discusses psychology, sexuality, and culture from a Christian perspective. He has been passionately married to his wife, Jessica, since 2007.
David H. Pickup, MA, LMFT
Private practice with offices in Dallas, TX and Los Angeles, CA
www.davidpickuplmft.com
1-818-481-2745
davidpickuplmft@gmail.com
David holds a master’s degree in psychology and is completing doctoral studies in psychology at CalSouthern University. He is licensed in California and Texas as a Marriage and Family Therapist. David underwent an extensive internship and training with the creator of Reparative Therapy, Dr. Joseph Nicolosi at Thomas Aquinas Psychological Clinic. He now operates his own private practices in Encino, Calif. and Dallas, Texas.
His practices consist almost entirely of same-sex attracted men who seek orientation change. David is a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and the American Psychological Association, and he holds training courses in Reparative Therapy for licensed counselors and ministers. He often speaks about Reparative Therapy on news shows and for churches and men’s groups. David holds to the belief that authentic manhood and the fulfillment of same-sex emotional needs is a marvelous and healing experience.
Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, Jr.,
Ph.D., 2009, Chicago School of Professional Psychology
https://www.reintegrativetherapy.com/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/joseph-nicolosi-jr-westlake-village-ca/301129
Dr. Nicolosi, Jr. is the founder of the Reintegrative Therapy Association. A licensed clinical psychologist, he is the clinical director of the for-profit organization, The Breakthrough Clinic, which focuses on addiction disorders through the use of treatments that are faster, more gentle and more effective than most conventional treatments.
Michael Gasparro, M.A
Email: mgasparrotherapy@gmail.com
Phone: (972) 816-4142
Michael is a Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist and Registered Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor who practices at Breakthrough Clinic in Encino, CA. Michael works at the Breakthrough Clinic under the supervision of Licensed Clinical Psychologist Dr. Joseph Nicolosi Jr.
Michael graduated with a Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy from Hope International University where he graduated with a 4.0 GPA and was a member of the Delta Kapa Honor Society. He has received his Level 1 and Level 2 Training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy, which is often utilized to treat trauma-based disorders such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder among many other mental health issues as well. He has also received his training to be a certified facilitator of the Prepare/Enrich Pre-Martial Counseling Method.
Christopher Doyle, LPC, CCTP
Email: Hal@instituteforhealthyfamilies.org (Client Relations)
Phone: 703-367- 0894 (VA Office)
Christopher Doyle, Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional is the Executive Director of the Institute for Healthy Families, a non-profit Judeo-Christian therapeutic organization in the Washington, D.C. area. He is also the Founder and Clinical Director of Northern Virginia Christian Counseling, specializing in the integration of psychology and theology in counseling. He is the author of The War on Psychotherapy: When Sexual Politics, Gender Ideology, and Mental Health Collide (2019) and The Meaning of Sex: A New Christian Ethos (2018). His first book, Benefits of Delaying Sexual Debut (now in its second edition), was featured at the National HIV Prevention Conference and International Abstinence Leaders Conference. He is also the author of the film and bullying prevention curriculum Acception.
Christopher is also a Board Approved Supervisor in the Commonwealth of Virginia. He earned his master’s degree in Professional Counseling from Liberty University and holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and History from Grove City College. Over the last thirteen years of clinical practice, he has either created or co-created several therapeutic retreats, including the Break-Free Your Inner Child healing retreat for men, Key to Your Child’s Heart retreat for parents of LGBT-identified children, and the Healing the Family therapeutic family intensive program. When he’s not facilitating retreats or working with families in intensive therapy, Christopher is a proud father to his five amazing children!
Dr Julie Hamilton
E-mail: julie@drjuliehamilton.com
Phone: 561-312-7041
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 1382
West Palm Beach, Florida 33402
Dr. Hamilton is a licensed marriage and family therapist with a private practice in south Florida. She is a former Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Graduate Counseling Psychology Department of Palm Beach Atlantic University (2004-2009). Dr. Hamilton speaks in a variety of contexts on issues related to marriage, family life, and spiritual growth. She has presented clinical workshops both locally and nationally on integrating therapy and spirituality, how faith helps during times of crisis, and issues related to homosexuality. In addition, Dr. Hamilton conducts seminars for pastors and Christian leaders on the origins of homosexuality and how to minister to homosexuals. She has produced a video entitled, Homosexuality 101: Where Does it Come From, Is Change Possible, and How Should Christians Respond? She is also the co-editor of The Handbook of Therapy for Unwanted Homosexual Attractions: A Guide to Treatment. Dr. Hamilton is the 2009-2011 President of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), and she is a former president of the Palm Beach Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.
Robert Vazzo, LMFT
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/robert-l-vazzo-lmft-las-vegas-nv/304274
Phone: (800) 249-3501, (818) 482-6083
Email: healingtherapy1@yahoo.com
Robert Vazzo received his master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Southern California and was inducted into the honor society of Phi Kappa Phi in 2004. Mr. Vazzo completed his clinical internship at the Thomas Aquinas Psychological Clinic in Encino, California, where he worked with Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, a pioneer in working with men with unwanted same-sex attraction. In addition to providing marital and family therapy, his professional interests include working with men, many of whom present with issues such as ego dystonic homosexuality, transvestic fetishism, hebephilia/ephebophilia and pedophilia as well as pornography addiction and personality disorders. Mr. Vazzo speaks French fluently, has lived and worked in France, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey and maintains an active interest in multicultural counseling. Robert Vazzo is a Clinical Fellow in the American Association for Marriage & Family Therapy (AAMFT), a member of the California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists, the Alliance for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity, and the Mankind Project. As a Christian, Mr. Vazzo’s personal philosophy is “Live life from your True Self and Witness the Creative Power of God.”
Other Resources
Alliance for Therapeutic Choice
International Federation for Therapeutic and Counselling Choice (IFTCC)