Richard Cohen
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Richard Cohen, M.A., is a psychotherapist, educator, and author who travels throughout the United States, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East teaching about marital relations, parenting skills, healing from sexual abuse, and understanding gender identity and sexual orientation issues. Over the past 35 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 how to assist those dealing with gender identity and sexual orientation concerns.
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Cohen is the author of 1) Being Gay: Nature, Nurture or Both?, 2) Gay Children Straight Parents: A Plan for Family Healing, 3) Understanding Our LGBTQ+ Loved Ones, 4) A Therapist’s Guide: Assisting Those with Same-Sex Attraction & Their Loved Ones, 5) Healing Humanity: Time, Touch, and Talk., 6) Counselor Training Program Manual, and 7) Rich’s Home. His books are published in thirteen languages.
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He founded the International Healing Foundation (IHF) in 1990 and, is currently the co-founder and executive director of Positive Approaches To Healthy Sexuality (PATH). Based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, PATH offers consultations, family healing sessions, resource materials, and speaking engagements. Cohen is a frequent guest lecturer on college and university campuses, and at therapeutic and religious conferences.
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Cohen holds a Bachelor’s degree from Boston University and a Master’s of Arts degree in counseling psychology from Antioch University. For three years, he worked as an HIV/AIDS educator for the Seattle, Washington chapter of the American Red Cross where he authored a statewide curriculum for foster parents and health care providers dealing with HIV-infected children.
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Cohen has been interviewed by newspaper, radio, and television media including appearances on 20/20, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Rachel Maddow, Howard Stern, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and other news outlets throughout the world. He lives in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area with his wife of forty-three years and has three adult children.
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