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Gay Men's Therapy

An accessible, specialist counselling and psychotherapy service for men who are attracted to men.

07/11/2025

Change begins with a decision that often feels small or uncertain. You set an intention. Maybe it’s to speak up, to rest, to stop chasing. It feels new, and maybe awkward. The next step is trying it. Then trying again. Over time, what felt clunky becomes smoother. The behavior turns into a habit. The habit becomes a practice. And the practice starts to feel like second nature. This is how nervous systems learn. It’s not overnight, and it doesn’t need to be dramatic. Repetition creates familiarity. Familiarity creates ease. And that ease starts to feel like you. This is how identity reshapes itself - not all at once, but gradually, through what you choose to return to.

01/10/2025

Healing doesn’t always look dramatic. Most of the time it’s as simple as returning to a memory, a street, or a relationship and noticing that something inside you has shifted. What once felt unbearable might now feel softer. What once made you shrink might now remind you of how far you’ve come. Healing doesn’t erase the past, but it changes the way it lives in you. When you can stand in the same place and feel more steady, more spacious, or more yourself. the quiet proof of growth is not aspiring to forget what happened but realizing that you can carry it differently.

26/09/2025

Growth asks us to make space. We can’t step into new ways of living if we’re still clinging tightly to who we once were. That older version of us may have carried us through hard times, but it isn’t built for the life we’re creating now. The tension often presents itself as self doubt- as if we’re betraying the past by moving forward when in fact, letting go is the most sincere way of honoring our past. We can thank those past selves for their role while choosing not to live inside them anymore. Change always feels like loss at first before it starts feeling like freedom.

15/09/2025

Most of us want quick fixes, but deep change doesn’t work that way. Healing, growth, new habits they all move at a slower pace than we’d ideally like. At the start, we may feel like nothing is happening, like all the effort isn’t adding up to much. And that’s when the temptation to quit is strongest.

But here’s the truth: quitting guarantees you’ll stay exactly where you are. Progress isn’t always visible in the moment. Sometimes it looks like showing up when you don’t feel like it, or choosing the harder but healthier response just once more. Over time, those choices gather weight. They start to shape a new way of being.

The early stages of change can feel empty because they haven’t yet had the chance to build momentum. But that doesn’t mean the work isn’t working. It just means it hasn’t had the time to take root. Real transformation asks for patience. Not perfection, not speed,just patience.

05/09/2025

Pain can shape us so deeply that it begins to feel like it changes who we are. We learn to identify with wounds, with survival stories, with the armor we built to carry them. Healing doesn’t erase the past, but it asks us to loosen our grip on the identities forged in suffering. That can feel disorienting. If I’m not the person defined by heartbreak, rejection, or loss, then who am I? This is the real challenge of recovery: allowing yourself to exist beyond what hurt you. Healing is not forgetting, but expanding. It’s making room for the parts of you that have always been more than your pain.

01/09/2025

There are moments in life where a situation won’t budge, no matter how much effort you throw at it. These moments often leave us frustrated or hopeless. But they also offer something else: an invitation to grow in ways we hadn’t planned. Change doesn’t always mean moving mountains. Sometimes it means shifting perspective, finding resilience, or redefining what’s possible within constraints. When the world refuses to bend, the work turns inward. That’s where we discover new strengths, and sometimes even a softer relationship with ourselves. Growth isn’t only about changing the outside. It’s about transforming who we become when life doesn’t go as we expected.

Address

16 Upper Woburn Place
London
WC1H0AF

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 8pm
Tuesday	8am - 8pm
Wednesday	8am - 8pm
Thursday	8am - 8pm
Friday	8am - 8pm

Website

https://www.gaymenstherapy.org.uk/

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