”Every teen girl’s dream” in the ’90s now lives a quite life and works as a psychologist

pouring in from young gay men across the country, thanking him for being visible.

For the first time, he wrote back, by hand.

”It helped me, actually, all this pressure I was getting to identify myself, identify myself. It just meant so much to know I wasn’t going through it alone either. After all, what is it [loving men]? There’s so much attached to it, but at the end of the day, it’s love. I’ll take it. Whatever it looks like,” he explained.

Unfortunately, the gay revelation had harsh consequences for the actor, who was in the middle of his career.

”I couldn’t get an audition for a pilot after that,” he shared in 2008.

From actor to psychologist

After decades of fame, addiction, and personal battles, he finally stepped away from Hollywood in 2015. Not in defeat, but in transformation.

He went back to school, earned a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, and opened his own private practice.

Today, he helps others navigate trauma, identity, and healing, the very struggles he once faced himself.

He named his practice Confluence Psychotherapy, a symbol, he says, of two rivers meeting to form something stronger.Continue reading…