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Mark O'Connell, LCSWR,MFA

Coming Out Is Good For Our Mental Health

I think psychologist Charles Silverstein would have loved Jessi Hempel’s exquisite memoir The Family Outing. Silverstein, who passed away…

Mar 3, 2023

Coming Out Is Good For Our Mental Health

Mar 3, 2023

Marriage Equality Can’t Be Taken Away From Us!

My book Modern Brides & Modern: A Guide to Planning Straight, Gay, and Other Nontraditional Twenty-First Century Weddings, was first…

Jul 8, 2022

Marriage Equality Can’t Be Taken Away From Us!

Jul 8, 2022

How Self-Doubt Can be a Gift for Therapists and for Parents

“The combination of self-affiliation and professional self-doubt seems to pave the way for an open, self-reflective attitude that allows…

Jul 26, 2021

How Self-Doubt Can be a Gift for Therapists and for Parents

Jul 26, 2021

How to Talk to “The Other Side” on Social Media

If you’ve been on social media lately — and who hasn’t since COVID-19 bulldozed the world? — you’ve been caught in the war on reality…

Oct 28, 2020

How to Talk to “The Other Side” on Social Media

Oct 28, 2020

Beyond #MeToo and #IBelieveYou

It’s great that men are using the hashtag #IBelieveYou, in support of the women who post #MeToo on social media — a trend triggered by…

Oct 30, 2017

Beyond #MeToo and #IBelieveYou

Oct 30, 2017

We are in a sweet spot for nuptials.

And yet, many of the questions I am asked — by the media, but also in life (mostly by straight people) — are about same sex wedding…

Oct 27, 2017

Oct 27, 2017

Pride in Mental Health: Advocacy

An interview with Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund and DoSomething.org.

Jun 23, 2017

Pride in Mental Health: Advocacy

Jun 23, 2017

Pride in Mental Health: Crisis Intervention — An Interview with The Trevor Project and Crisis Text…

This week I had the privilege of speaking with experts, activists, and advocates about the various mental health needs we have in the LGBTQ…

Jun 21, 2017

Pride in Mental Health: Crisis Intervention — An Interview with The Trevor Project and Crisis Text…

Jun 21, 2017

Big Little Truth: When Women Get Along On Screen We All Win

“You’re a very big person,” says Reese Witherspoon to Laura Dern, on “Big Little Lies” (the HBO hit miniseries that helped a great many of…

Apr 9, 2017

Big Little Truth: When Women Get Along On Screen We All Win

Apr 9, 2017

Mark O'Connell, LCSWR,MFA

Mark O'Connell, LCSWR,MFA

NYC-based psychotherapist in private practice, author of THE PERFORMING ART OF THERAPY, writer, husband, Dad. www.markoconnelltherapist.com

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