BOOKS
Clinician's Handbook (formerly known as) Counselor Training Program Manual Assisting Our LGBTQ+ Loved Ones
Our 250-page Clinician's Handbook (formerly known as Counselor Training Program Manual) provides a roadmap for recovery. This groundbreaking and comprehensive therapeutic protocol is for therapists, coaches, ministry leaders, and anyone who wishes to assist those struggling with sexual orientation and gender identity issues.
​
For 35 years, psychotherapist, educator, and author Richard Cohen has helped hundreds of men and women worldwide transition from a homosexual to a heterosexual orientation. He has assisted hundreds of parents in restoring relationships with their SSA loved ones. Cohen has traveled throughout the USA, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East training thousands of psychologists, psychotherapists, coaches, and ministry leaders. He shares the “how tos" of implementing these groundbreaking protocols in this landmark film series and manual.
Topics include:
-
Identifying the basic causes of Same-Sex Attraction (SSA)
-
Developing a comprehensive four-stage treatment plan for healing
-
Successful therapeutic modalities for each stage of healing
-
Protocol for group therapy and support groups
-
Twelve principles for parents to establish greater intimacy with their SSA loved ones
-
Support group curriculum for parents
-
Taking care of the caregivers, preventing burnout
-
Family Healing Session Protocol
I am so blessed to have participated in the first course for certification as a Sexual Orientation Coach with Positive Approaches To Healthy Sexuality. I feel it has thoroughly prepared me to deal with clients in this sensitive area. Comprehensive in scope, sensitive in approach, and detailed in methodology, this course will untangle the nuances of counseling the struggler with unwanted SSA. As more therapists become familiar with this course, many SSA strugglers who have been disappointed with traditional therapeutic approaches will obtain the help they need to progress in the difficult journey towards personal wholeness and heterosexuality.
Keith Vennum, M.D., LMHC,
Former President of The Alliance for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity
Richard Cohen, with his keen sensitivity and ability to empower and transform lives, is just phenomenal. Being a part of the training, responding to, and helping persons with Same-Sex Attraction has revolutionized and empowered my ministry. The content of this training was consistent with the Word, a courageous Work, and challenged my Will.
Pastor Anthony Moore
Carolina Church
No one today has more practical, real-life experience helping individuals process and explore unwanted SSA than Richard Cohen. I have applied techniques and ideas that I’ve learned from Richard with great success as I’ve worked with life-coaching clients and groups over the years. His instruction and mentoring have been invaluable.
Rich Wyler
Founder and Director, Brothers Road
Healing Humanity: Time, Touch and Talk
-
Why is there a 50% divorce rate? Why does research indicate that 33-75% of men and 26-70% of women are sexually unfaithful in marriage?
-
Why are men and women getting hooked on porn, spending $36 billion a year?
-
Why are more and more men being exposed for sexually abusing children, adolescents, and/or adults?
​Porn, affairs, and addictions are illegitimate attempts to meet legitimate needs for love.
Looking for love?
If you want to experience greater love in your life, Healing Humanity: Time, Touch, and Talk (TTT) will provide you with the keys to fulfill your heart’s desire.
-
TIME: Life-changing skills for your personal healing, family healing, and community healing.
-
TOUCH: Essential exercises for healthy touch to transform your life and the lives of your loved ones.
-
TALK: Communication skills to foster greater intimacy in your personal and professional relationships.
Richard Cohen, M.A., is a psychotherapist, educator, and author who travels throughout the USA, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East teaching about marital relations, communication skills, parenting skills, and human sexuality. Over the past 40 years he has helped hundreds in therapy and thousands through healing seminars, as well as trained over 6,000 physicians, psychologists, counselors, and ministry leaders. He has authored five books and been interviewed by newspaper, radio and television media including appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live, 20/20, Howard Stern, Rachel Maddow and other news outlets. Cohen lives in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area with his wife of forty years and has three adult children.
Being Gay: Nature, Nurture or Both?
-
Are people born gay? Is it an inborn trait, acquired condition, or both?
-
Scientists are still investigating why some people are gay while others are straight.
-
The controversy continues.
Some chose to live a gay life while others seek to explore the possibility of resolving their unwanted homosexual desires.
-
Diversity, Tolerance, and Acceptance is what Cohen believes and practices: Equality for all views of sexuality.
In Being Gay, Richard Cohen discusses the science of sexuality and why some may develop homosexual feelings, while others do not. Cohen affirms the individual's right of self-determination--to embrace their homosexuality and live a gay life, or to explore a different path for change. It is a human right to pursue love by whomever one chooses.
-
Learn about potential causes of homosexual feelings: nature and nurture
-
Discover a four-stage plan to resolve past issues and fulfill unmet love needs
-
Find simple and effective tools to help you achieve your dreams
Being Gay is for those who struggle with uwanted same-sex attraction (SSA), those who have loved ones who experience SSA, and therapists & ministry leaders looking to help those who experience SSA.
Richard Cohen, former homosexual and psychotherapist, married with 3 children, struggled for much of his life with unwanted SSA. He tried desperately to find professionals who understood his condition and could help him heal. Because “it was so difficult to explain myself to therapists who didn't have a clue,” Cohen eventually became a psychotherapist and developed both a ground-breaking understanding of same-sex attraction and a comprehensive treatment plan for resolving unwanted SSA. Being Gay not only details Cohen’s personal journey out of homosexuality, but also recounts his experiences helping men, women and adolescents resolve their unwanted desires and fulfill their heterosexual dreams.
Praise for Being Gay
​
"Being Gay changed my life. I cannot express in words what this has meant to me. Your understanding about my homosexual feelings has given me hope and a clear plan for my life." Levi Jacobson
​
"I struggled and suffered in silence for years. No one understood how to help me. You alone did. Words cannot express my eternal gratitude." Ahmet Abadi
​
"In his book Being Gay, Richard Cohen has forged a path for those brave enough to look behind the veil of their sexual desires. This book will become a resource for generations to come." Rebecca Sand, Ph.D.
​
Words for praise about Coming Out Straight (former version of this book):
​
"In this self-help book, ex-gay psychotherapist Cohen writes for gays and lesbians who want to transition to heterosexuality. His comprehensive, well-written, well-organized, and heavily referenced guide views homosexuality as a symptom of disrupted affiliation with the same-sex parent and incomplete feelings of maleness/femaleness, building on the theories of Joseph Nicolosi and Elizabeth Moberly. Cohen's approach is sympathetic and rational and leans mostly on psychosocial factors, but he also assumes nondenominational religious affiliation."
—The Library Journal, July 2001
Being Gay (formerly titled Coming Out Straight) is available in Spanish, Italian, Croatian, Polish, German, and soon Portuguese.
Gay Children, Straight Parents
Gay Children, Straight Parents is authored by sexual orientation therapist Richard Cohen, who lived a homosexual life and then came out straight! Over the past 27 years, Cohen has helped hundreds of parents, family members and friends who have loved ones dealing with SSA.
This important book describes 12 powerful principles to create more loving and intimate relationships within the family and community. You will meet parents who share their wonderful stories of restored relationships and family healing as they help their SSA sons and daughters fulfill their heterosexual potential.
Gay Children, Straight Parents is a gift for the entire family, as well as for anyone who wishes to understand how to love SSA men and women. Clergy and ministry leaders will find this an invaluable resource.
Praise for Gay Children, Straight Parents
"I enthusiastically recommend Gay Children, Straight Parents as a must-read for every parent facing the difficult discovery of their child's homosexuality. Richard's compassionate approach relieves the stigma and shame often associated with a loved-one's homosexual feelings."
—Janelle M. Halleman, Ph.D., Author, The Heart of Female Same-Sex Attraction
"This book helped us go from shock and disbelief to an understanding of what happened to our son who experiences same-sex attraction. It showed us how to develop an action plan to help heal the wounds in his heart...and gave us real hope."
—Bob & Sue
"Richard is movingly candid about the brokenness in his own family life, and he's not afraid to get down in the trenches and cry, mourn and laugh with everyone else who struggles. This book offers sound practical advice for healing family relationships."
—Joseph Nicolosi, Ph.D., Author, Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality and Preventing Homosexuality: A Parent's Guide
"Words cannot express the gratitude that we feel in our hearts for the incredible enlightenment that we have received from Gay Children, Straight Parents. This book has changed the life of our family and helped our daughter heal from same-sex attraction."
—Michael & Linda
Understanding Our LGBTQ+ Loved Ones 2022
Understanding Our LGBTQ+ Loved Ones
Understanding Our LGBTQ+ Loved Ones will illuminate how to truly love the LGBTQ+ community. By understanding the hearts of our gay family members and friends, we may resolve the conflicts and confusion regarding homosexuality.
Important issues covered in this book:
-
A brief history of the Gay Rights Movement
-
Are people really born gay? Is it driven by nature, nurture, or both?
-
Clues as to why five American celebrities experience same-sex attraction
-
Language to help heal hurting hearts
-
How to positively love our gay family members and friends
Do you know someone who is LGBTQ+? Discover how you may help your losbian, gay bisexual, transgender, queer+ family members or friends findfulfillment in life and love. This book is a must read for everyone who wants
to understand the hearts of their LGBTQ+ loved ones.
A Therapist’s Guide: Assisting Those with Same-Sex Attraction & Their Loved Ones
Discover the true meaning behind Same-Sex Attraction (SSA). Cohen knows this issue from both sides of the therapist’s couch—from gay client to straight counselor. He has helped hundreds of men and women, who experienced unwanted SSA, fulfill their heterosexual dreams, assisted hundreds of parents in resolving relationships with their LGBTQ+ children, and trained thousands of professional therapists and ministry leaders.
Important issues covered in this book:
-
Meaning behind Same-Sex Attraction (SSA)
-
Four-stage model of resolving unwanted SSA
-
How to assist family members and friends
-
Twelve-step program to create loving and lasting changes in the family system
“No one today has more practical, real-life experience helping individuals overcome unwanted same-sex attraction than Richard Cohen. I have applied techniques and ideas that I’ve learned from Richard with great success as I’ve worked with life-coaching clients and groups. His instruction and mentoring have been invaluable.”
—Rich Wyler, Founder of Brothers Road
“The Counselor Training Program was a tremendous help to me. It was a refreshing approach to learning the many facets of healing unwanted SSA. The opportunities acquired in the program were priceless. I recommend this to anyone at any level—seasoned therapist, new counselor, counseling student, pastor, mentor, or coach.”
—James E. Phelan, Psy.D., LCSW
Author and Psychologist
“I am so blessed to have participated in the first course for certification as a Sexual Orientation Coach. I feel it has thoroughly prepared me to deal with clients in this sensitive area. Comprehensive in scope, sensitive in approach, and detailed in methodology, this course will untangle the nuances of counseling the struggler with unwanted SSA.”
—Keith Vennum, M.D., LMH
Former President of The Alliance for
Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity
—Rich Wyler, Founder of Brothers Road
Rich’s Home
Author, Richard Cohen
Illustrator, M Waseem
Rich’s Home is the story about a young boy who experiences hurt in his family and at school. With the help of a counselor, Rich learns how to resolve the relationships with his family and friends. By setting love in order, Rich finds real hope and healing, ultimately marrying the right woman and creating a beautiful family. This book will give hope to many.
“Richard Cohen’s book presents to any responsible teacher, parent, and leader the opportunity to give our children a new look at their sexuality in the midst of controversy. Rich’s Home is most definitely a vitally needed book for our children and for our school systems throughout America.”
— Dr. Thomas L. Brown
Former Indianapolis School Commissioner
“Rich’s Home is a beautiful and brilliant
children’s book that will bring hope to many
children confused about their sexuality
. A must read!”
— Elizabeth Goldberg
Elementary School Teacher
