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Title
Richard Waitzkin
Subject
Queer Spirit Podcast
Description
Richard Waitzkin is a psychotherapist and one of the founders of Portland’s new and terribly exciting Equality Community Center, which houses organizations serving the LBGTQ+ community, including Equality Maine, Maine TransNet, GLSEN, and SAGE Maine, as well as allied organizations, such as the Maine Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, and Tribal Populations, the Maine Jewish Film Festival, Democracy Maine, and the Cambodian Community Association of Maine.
A native of Ohio, Rich as a young adult served as a VISTA volunteer and teacher’s aide in California before moving east. In Massachusetts, he received two masters degrees, one in education and the other in social work. After moving to Maine, he worked on the frontlines in the early days of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, sat on the Governor’s commission on AIDS, attended the first regional training to provide HIV counseling and testing, volunteered as an AIDS buddy, and contributed to Maine’s first AIDS hospice facility.
About his work as a psychotherapist, Rich writes, “As our lives unfold, we’re challenged mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. Psychotherapy can provide a safe environment to focus on the growth and healing required of us to become the best we can be in all roles and aspects of our life. Over these many years in practice, I've found the work of healing, growth, and personal transformation to be a sacred process.”
Rich lives in Portland, loves to work in his yard and on his old house, and dances in both public and private.
A native of Ohio, Rich as a young adult served as a VISTA volunteer and teacher’s aide in California before moving east. In Massachusetts, he received two masters degrees, one in education and the other in social work. After moving to Maine, he worked on the frontlines in the early days of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, sat on the Governor’s commission on AIDS, attended the first regional training to provide HIV counseling and testing, volunteered as an AIDS buddy, and contributed to Maine’s first AIDS hospice facility.
About his work as a psychotherapist, Rich writes, “As our lives unfold, we’re challenged mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. Psychotherapy can provide a safe environment to focus on the growth and healing required of us to become the best we can be in all roles and aspects of our life. Over these many years in practice, I've found the work of healing, growth, and personal transformation to be a sacred process.”
Rich lives in Portland, loves to work in his yard and on his old house, and dances in both public and private.
Source
Marvin Ellison and Tamara Torres-McGovern
Contributor
Richard Waitzkin