Brian Keshish, AMFT with Grey Insight, Gay Mens Therapist, working with individuals who are looking for help with love, sex, body image, and connection. Reach out today.

Brian Keshish, AMFT

  • Pepperdine University- Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology (Marriage and Family Therapy Specialization)

    University of California, Irvine- Bachelor of Science in Business Information Management

  • I am an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT #PENDING) registered with the California Board of Behavioral Sciences under my legal name,

    As an AMFT, I practice under the supervision of a Licensed Mental Health Professional while completing the required hours for licensure.

  • I am supervised by Dr. Michael Grey, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (#136636) and clinical supervisor who supports my clinical development and ensures that patients receive ethical, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive care.

  • I practice a modern, depth-oriented form of therapy that looks at the whole picture of who you are, including your history, your desires, and your relationships. We won’t just talk about your struggles in a vacuum. Instead, we will look at the invisible blueprints left behind by your family, your culture, and your early attachments, and see how they are playing out in your life today.

    So much of how we navigate intimacy, seek pleasure, or hold ourselves back in open or traditional relationships is shaped by old, automatic scripts running in the background. My goal is to help you bring those hidden dynamics into the light. When you understand the root of your patterns, you reclaim the power to rewrite them, allowing you to own your desire, build deeper connections, and live entirely on your own terms

    • Suicide Risk and Prevention - Didi Hirsch

    • Working with Bipolar Disorder- Didi Hirsch

    • Borderline States and Phenomenon - Alex Russan (Maple Counseling Center) 

    • Suicide Prevention Treatment, and Support: Risk Assessment, Treatment, and Management-The Nevada Office of Suicide Prevention

    • Supporting Survivors of Sexual Assault- UCLA Rape Treatment
      Center

    • Psychodynamic Psychotherapy- Harold Young (Maple Counseling Center)

    • Managing Anger & Expectations: Converging
      Approaches for More Effective Communication      - Paul Gutrecht (Maple Counseling Center)

    • Adult Training: Leaning Into Beauty and Grief- David Kessler, (Grief Education Program)

    • American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT)

    • California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)

  • Individual Therapy:

    • Gay Men & LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapy: Supporting gay men and LGBTQ+ adults through the unique complexities of queer life, including coming out, dating and hookup culture, intimacy, masculinity, family acceptance, and the heavy pressures of body image.

    • Healing Body Image & Self-Esteem: Untangling how deeply your sense of physical desirability has become intertwined with your core worth, quietening the pressure to conform, and helping you build a compassionate, secure relationship with your body.

    • Sexuality, Kink & BDSM Affirming Therapy: Providing a non-judgmental, sex-positive space to explore your desires, navigate sexual identity, and embrace kink, BDSM, or alternative relationship structures with confidence and safety.

    • Identity & Self-Exploration: Creating a safe, reflective space to untangle who you are from who you were told to be, reclaim your voice, and cultivate the courage to live an authentic life defined by your own expectations.

    • Anxiety, Depression & Feeling Stuck: Helping you understand the root of patterns that contribute to anxiety, low mood, overthinking, or avoidance, while developing practical, compassionate ways to move forward and reconnect with your vitality.

    • Relationships, Dating & Heartbreak: Working through modern dating challenges, painful breakups, repetitive relationship patterns, and attachment concerns to help you rebuild the confidence to open your heart safely again.

    • Family, Culture & Expectations: Exploring how family relationships, cultural expectations, and early experiences have shaped you, showing you how to honor where you came from without abandoning who you want to become.

    • Life Transitions & Personal Growth: Supporting you through periods of change, uncertainty, and personal evolution, including career pivots, relationship shifts, and the process of finding your grounding in a new chapter.

    • Supporting Addiction Recovery: Offering compassionate, non-judgmental, harm reduction therapy to help you navigate substance use, heal underlying pain, and sustain long-term recovery.

    Couples Therapy:

    • Strengthening Emotional Connection: Helping partners bridge emotional distance, understand the invisible walls that have grown between them, and restore a deep sense of warmth, safety, and shared partnership.

    • Communication & Conflict: Identifying recurring, exhausting communication loops, helping partners express their deepest needs clearly, and learning to face life’s challenges as a team rather than as opponents.

    • Attachment & Relationship Patterns: Exploring how individual histories, family experiences, and attachment styles influence the ways each partner seeks closeness, responds to conflict, or pulls away to protect themselves.

    • Trust, Security & Reconnection: Guiding couples through the delicate, intentional process of addressing experiences that have disrupted trust, working step-by-step to rebuild a foundation that feels secure and dependable.

    • Sexual & Emotional Intimacy: Providing an affirming, comfortable space to explore desire, address emotional blocks, and revitalize physical and emotional closeness within the relationship.

    • Boundaries & Individuality: Helping partners establish supportive boundaries that allow each person to maintain their unique identity and autonomy while remaining deeply connected and invested in the partnership.

  • Individual Therapy (50 minutes):

    $200.00

    Relational (Couples) Therapy (75 Minutes)

    $250.00

    Relational (Couples & Family) Therapy (90 Minutes)

    $300.00

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A Message from Brian

I am a compassionate, collaborative therapist committed to helping you understand yourself, heal your relationships, and create meaningful, lasting change in your life. I am deeply passionate about walking alongside LGBTQ+ individuals, gay men, multicultural clients, and anyone navigating the quiet weight of identity, relationships, anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life transitions.


As a gay Persian-Armenian/American man, my own journey has shaped every part of the therapist I am today. Growing up, I often felt the deep isolation of being the “black sheep.” I was constantly navigating the heavy intersections of culture, sexuality, religion, and expectations, trying to understand where I belonged in a world that didn't seem to have a space for me. I knew I was gay from a young age, but I quickly learned that knowing who you are internally and having the safety to live authentically out loud are two very different, and often painful, experiences.

My culture has given me values I deeply cherish: family, loyalty, hospitality, connection, and a strong work ethic. At the same time, I know what it feels like when the most honest parts of who you are don't fit neatly within cultural or familial expectations. Over time, I learned that embracing my truth did not require me to abandon my roots. I could value where I came from while also choosing to become the man I wanted to be, and I want to help you find that same peace and harmony in your own life.

My experiences as a gay man have also given me a personal, lived understanding of the struggles that can be so difficult to speak about unless you have lived them yourself. I understand the unspoken complexities that come with coming out, navigating dating and hookup culture, relationships, sex and intimacy, masculinity, family acceptance, loneliness, and the search for true belonging. Having walked my own difficult path with body image and self-esteem, I know how deeply our sense of physical desirability can become painfully intertwined with our core sense of worth. I also remember how desperately I needed someone in my corner during the years when I was figuring out so much of this alone in the dark.

Because of that, I want to be that person in your corner now.

These experiences shape how I show up for you today. I strive to meet you with warmth and gentleness, while also being willing to challenge you when your growth requires it. I believe therapy should be a collaborative sanctuary, not a hierarchy. I am not here to tell you who you should be. I am here to help you gain deep insight into who you already are, recognize the invisible patterns keeping you stuck, and feel empowered to act on that truth.

For me, authenticity means feeling secure enough in your own skin to live by your values, without letting others' expectations define you. I know firsthand that getting there takes time, courage, and patience. You should not have to figure it all out alone anymore. Let’s take the next step together.

I am a Persian-Armenian Gay Man, Authentic, a Black Sheep, a Work in Progress, and a Therapist, but most importantly,

I am Human.

-Brian

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