The Mental Health Guide for Cis and Trans Queer Guys
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Queer and trans men face homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, and rejection from family. In addition, the lingering effects of bigotry, discrimination, and hate crimes can have a traumatizing and devastating impact. This guide offers GBTQ men a cognitive behavioral therapy-based approach to improve their mental health.
An inclusive, evidence-based guide to healing and thriving as a cis or trans queer man.
As a cis or trans man who loves men, you face unique and challenging circumstances, including homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia, struggles with body image, and rejection from family. In addition, the lingering effects of bigotry, discrimination, microaggressions, and hate crimes can have a traumatising and devastating impact on your mental health and well-being. This compassionate guide offers powerful skills to help you heal the pain of trauma and thrive authentically in a world that often misunderstands or marginalises your identity and experiences.
The Mental Health Guide for Cis and Trans Queer Guys offers you a safe, inclusive space to examine, understand, and heal from systemic and interpersonal threats to your mental well-being. Based on proven-effective cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), this book provides proven-effective tools and exercises to help you reflect on, confront, and manage difficult emotions; improve self-image and self-esteem; and develop healthy coping skills.
This guidebook will help you:
- Cultivate greater self-awareness
- Move past negative thinking habits
- Heal emotional wounds and build resilience
- Challenge heteronormativity and gender role rigidity
- Care for your sexual health
Also included is a #DiggingDeeper community wellness campaign to help you reflect on the deeper questions of the book and share your own challenges and triumphs with others on social media.
If youβre struggling with mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, or traumaβor feel oppressed or misunderstood by the world around youβthis book can help you overcome the negative internalised messages that are causing you emotional pain, and build the self-awareness, confidence, and courage needed to embrace your unique identity and thrive.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781648485039
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 31 July 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: New Harbinger Publications
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 150.0mm
Height: 226.0mm
Weight: 280g
Pages: 200
About the Author
Rahim Thawer, MSW, RSW,Β is a clinical social worker and psychotherapist from Toronto, ON, Canada. He is a clinical supervisor, facilitator and public speaker, university instructor, writer, and host of The CBT Dive podcast. Heβs trained in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Gestalt, psychoanalytic, and sex therapy approaches. His clinical practice and writing explore the intersection of systemic oppression and mental health, while also honoring innovation in queer relationships.
Foreword writer Leo Herrera is a queer Mexican artist who explores queer and immigrant experiences through the lenses of sex, technology, and history. His work centers on themes of disease and stigma, always searching for utopia in LGBTQ historyβs darkest chapters. Herrera is director of Fathers, a multimedia project which imagines the world if AIDS never existed. He is author of Analog Cruising, a manual for modern sex outside of our phones.
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