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An open and "out" bisexual male for the past ten years (and proud of it!), Gary Wareham combines both personal awareness and professional experience into his counseling "worldview". He is a mental health professional who is educated and trained in various areas of counseling and psychotherapy including sexual orientation, sexual identity, and sexual minority counseling. For the past six years, Gary has co-facilitated a bisexual support group for both men and women and has worked with sexual minorities in various counseling capacities.
In addition, he has undergone 3 ˝ years of comprehensive counselor training in group and individual psychotherapy, under the supervision of licensed psychotherapists, at The Roth Center in Denver, Colorado. This was an intensive, experiential program that emphasized deep feeling process, body-centered techniques, and cognitive integration. In addition, to sexual orientation and sexual identity issues, he has worked extensively with clients in areas of trauma, grief and loss, anxiety and depression, obsessions and compulsions, relationship and intimacy issues.
Formal Education
As far as formal education, Gary graduated with honors (Summa Cum Laude) from Metropolitan State College of Denver, while earning a degree in Human Services with an emphasis in mental health counseling. His undergraduate program was extraordinarily comprehensive with over 90 credit hours in courses involving counseling and psychotherapy, psychology, anthropology, and the behavioral sciences. Included in the curriculum were courses in: Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual counseling, gender issues, substance abuse, domestic violence, post-traumatic stress disorder, group process and facilitation, individual and couples counseling, personality theory, and psychopathology. In addition, for his undergraduate degree he completed over 1000 hours of supervised clinical experience in field placements working with various client populations including those with addictions, trauma and other mental health issues, and sexual minorities.
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