Rick is a clinical social worker in private practice in Boston and on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He has served nationally and internationally on faculties at a number of universities and conferences, including the faculty at Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Yale Hospital and Health Systems Keynote Speaker for Diversity and Inclusion, Simmons University School of Social Work and faculty member for Esther Perel’s Sessions programs. He was awarded the 2018 MA chapter of National Association of Social Workers’ Greatest Contribution to Social Work Practice award in recognition of his unique contribution to the body of knowledge that has never previously been studied or published in professional literature. He has established trainings for MH professionals that facilitate knowledgeable interventions which allow LGBT++ populations to feel understood and affirmed, and developed mindfulness techniques specific to gay men which has never been done by anybody else.