About Me:

My name is Rene Gallardo and I am Licensed Clinical Social Worker aspiring to support men’s health and their ability to manage stress and relationships in a socially complex society. I am a male latino therapist with professional and personal experience of the issues men face in silence. As men, we bottle up emotions and discard of anything that can potentially make us vulnerable, weak and inadequate, as part of maintaining our status and place within our families and in a greater context of relationships. We push through things as if we were made of steel without realizing the impact on our body and mind, and how the agony of our silence bleeds onto the people we love. Ive realized that the only way we can move into a realm where we value our well-being is to find the courage to take responsibility for our actions. To find the strength we are biologically given to face the darkest and deepest parts of ourselves hiding in addictions and aggressive behaviors, and move towards rebuilding a relationship with ourselves, so that masculinity is a part of our identity and not the “whole”.