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Gay Men's Therapy

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

24/12/2025

As gay men, we’ve already navigated fears most people never touch: coming out, facing rejection, building lives outside the script we were handed. And usually somewhere along the way, we also learn to protect ourselves by staying small in certain areas.
Maybe it’s intimacy that scares you. Maybe it’s vulnerability or being fully seen. So you don’t try. You don’t reach out. You keep your world manageable.
The cost? Every fear you sidestep becomes a line on the sand you can’t cross. Your comfort zone shrinks.
Facing fear doesn’t mean it goes away. It means you stop letting it make the decisions for you.
What would your life look like if fear wasn’t in the driver’s seat?

12/12/2025

This time of year can feel rough.

Everyone seems to be with family, posting happy photos, going to parties. But a lot of people feel lonely around the holidays, even if it’s not said out loud. That kind of loneliness can bring up all kinds of coping mechanisms. You might want to feel something, or to stop feeling something, or just to feel close to someone for a bit.

Cravings happen.
They often indicate that something inside needs care.
Cravings are not moral defects and they don’t make you bad or broken.

If this is you right now, take a breath.
You’re not the only one and you’re not alone.

Talk to someone who cares.
Go outside for a walk.
Delay the decision.

If you or someone you love has problems with drugs or struggles with chem s*x we are here to help.

10/12/2025

Some changes feel scary because they ask us to give something up. A habit, a pattern, a version of ourselves that got us through. But if nothing shifts, nothing heals. The same pain loops. The same mistakes repeat. Growth isn’t easy, but staying stuck costs more over time. You don’t need to rush. You don’t need to have it all figured out. But it’s worth asking what staying the same is already taking from you. Fear is part of the process. So is discomfort. But change is where something new can finally begin.

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.

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.

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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