Rick Miller, LICSW
It's all about relationships
With decades of expertise in the LGBTQ+ community, Rick historically prioritized underrepresented topics such as coming out, sexuality, and shame, and continues to empower LGBTQ+ people and their families.
Couples appreciate Rick’s warm and interactive style. A keynote speaker at couples conferences and faculty for Esther Perel, Stan Tatkin, and Terry Real, he also co-hosts the Modern Couples podcast.
Presenter
Rick is a sought-after presenter for keynote speeches, conferences, and workplace gatherings where he’s known for his inspirational casual style. Audiences are comforted by understanding their issues and reactions are not unique, and leave feeling energized and motivated to create personal and professional change.
Consultant
Success involves forming and maintaining interpersonal relationships. Rick consults with companies, organizations, family-owned businesses, and nonprofit social service and mental-health agencies, providing clinical supervision, assessment of workplace culture, increased communication for management, and workplace conflict resolution.
Hypnosis
Through Rick’s intuitive and creative hypnosis process, clients feel that they’re seen, heard, and understood. In traditional hypnosis, clinicians employ scripts; Rick uses imagination and awareness to create a customized empowering experience for each client, which he also teaches internationally at hypnosis conferences.
TEDx Speaker
Rick’s TEDx Talk, The Mother Factor, grew out of his research into the relationship between gay men and their mothers, but broadened the concept to be meaningful to anyone—mother or adult child—seeking to repair and/or deepen this critical and universal bond and to appreciate its centrality in everyone’s life.
Gay Sons & Mothers
One of the most significant themes in Rick’s work is the exploration of the bond between gay sons and their mothers. Over the course of his own life as a gay son and of his clinical work he has discovered that mothers can transcend cultural and religious barriers to love and accept their sons for who they are.
This is particularly true in the context of families with conservative political and/or religious backgrounds.
Retreat Facilitator
Rick delivers when a group needs inspiration and actionable creative ideas; whether it’s a one-day timeout via video conferencing or three days in a pastoral retreat venue, participants leave his retreats feeling energized and motivated.
Upcoming Events
Catch Rick at his next public event:
May
2-4
The Couples Conference
Keynote: How to Open a Relationship While Enhancing Intimacy.
Workshop: From Avoidant to Happy: Helping Male Couples Connect.
May
9
Mom, I Have Something to Tell You
Screening of the documentary film at the Provincetown Commons
Jun
12
Pride Talk at PFLAG Cape Cod
Screening of the documentary film Mom, I Have Something to Tell You, followed by a discussion and Q&A
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Jun
20
Modern Sex Therapy Institutes
When Two is More Fun Than One: Dual Perspectives on the Sexual and Relational Health of Gay Men
Rick's articles and books
Rick writes practical, insightful books and articles that empower people, offering strategies for growth and meaningful transformation in both personal and professional lives.
Psychology Today
How gay men can “unwrap” themselves from what stands between them and optimum mental health.
Medium
Blending insights from psychotherapy and the arts community, articles encourage readers to break down barriers
Psychotherapy Networker
Insights, interviews, and a few secrets from some of the “masters” of the psychotherapy world.
Mindfulness Tools for Gay Men in Therapy
Worksheets, exercises, and mindfulness scripts to help therapists successfully treat their gay clients.
Unwrapped: Integrative Therapy with Gay Men
A detailed description of gay male experiences, providing theory and hypnotic exercises, and also tips for the therapist.
Opening Up: A Workbook for Male Couples
A self-guided workbook to help male couples enhance communication and rediscover joy in each other.
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