In their words
What men say afterwards.
Counselling is hard to picture from the outside, so here is how it has landed for other gay and bi men — in their own words, with names and details removed.
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"For the first time, I didn't have to translate myself. I just got to be."
— J., 29 "I came in burnt out from years of holding it together on the outside. Mark held the whole picture — the coming-out stuff, the work stuff, the family stuff — without ever making me feel like a project."
— D., 34, gay — Lisbon "Finding a therapist who actually got the gay bit, without me having to teach him first, changed everything about how I show up to sessions."
— S., bi man "Telling my parents was the scariest thing I've done. Having someone in my corner every week meant I didn't fall apart when they didn't say the right thing."
— Client in his 20s "We came in stuck in the same argument on loop. Six months later we still argue, but we know how to come back to each other. That's the win."
— M., 41 "I came out at 52 and thought I'd left it too late to be happy. Grief work with someone who understood the closet years — and the joy on the other side of them — has been life-giving."
— Client in his 50s — Scotland "Early sessions before work meant nobody in the office ever had to know. That sounds small. It wasn't."
— R., 38 — finance "I'd done therapy before and spent half of it explaining what being bi actually means. Not here. We got straight to the thing I was avoiding."
— Client in his 30s
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