A. Lee Beckstead private practice

A. Lee Beckstead (he/him), PhD, is white-Peruvian, gay, cisgender, currently nondisabled, and spiritual. He has been a psychologist in private practice since 2003 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Since 2005, he has co-facilitated retreats for male survivors of sexual abuse. He served on the 2009 American Psychological Association task force making recommendations for those seeking therapy to change their sexual orientation. In 2012, he initiated the LGBTQ-affirmative Psychotherapist Guild of Utah to file ethical complaints against Utah clinicians providing sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE). In 2013, he shifted focus and organized a workshop to foster dialogue and understanding with these individuals. Since then, he's been meeting twice/month with therapists/educators holding differing views on sexual orientation, gender, and religion. He testified as an expert witness in a 2015 New Jersey legal case against a Jewish organization accused of consumer fraud due to offering SOCE. From 2016, he's been part of a diverse research team studying the health and satisfaction of individuals who are single and celibate or noncelibate or in a same-gender/queer or mixed-orientation relationship. He is also the lead coeditor of the LGBTQIA+ Peacemaking Book Project.