Therapist Who Started as Volunteer Peer Wins Social Work Today Award
Ken Howard, MSW, LCSW, of West Hollywood, California, a psychotherapist who specializes in serving the needs of gay men and people living with HIV/AIDS, has won one of the ten “Dedicated and Deserving Social Workers” of the year awards from Social Work Today magazine.
Howard has been living with HIV himself for over 20 years, and has been a practicing psychotherapist for over 18 years. He started his career as a volunteer peer counselor “phone buddy” at a program at AIDS Project Los Angeles (www.apla.org), and then formalized his training with a Master of Social Work degree at the University of Southern California School of Social Work.
