Biography

Glenn has been practicing psychotherapy since graduating from Lesley College (now Lesley University) in 1997 with a MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Glenn received his license to practice mental health counseling in 1999 from the Board of Registration of Allied Mental Health Professions (license #4493). Glenn is a member of the American Mental Health Counselors Association, the Massachusetts Mental Health Counselors Association, and a member of WPATH (the World Professional Association for Transgender Health).

Glenn’s undergraduate education was at the Rhode Island School of Design where he studied fine arts, specifically jewelry design. Glenn received his BFA in 1985 and then went on to receive an MFA from RISD in 1988. Glenn had a brief professional career as a jewelry designer from 1988 to 1993.

While still a resident of Rhode Island, the onset of the HIV/AIDS epidemic had a significant influence on Glenn that eventually led to his career change and to his professional life as a psychotherapist. The cultural indifference and inadequate response in the early days of the HIV/AIDS crisis led Glenn to become politically active for social change. Glenn served as an AIDS Buddy throughout the mid-1980s, joined ACT UP to advocate for a better response to the AIDS crisis and to GLBT rights in general, and was co-host with Cecilie Surasky on “Closet Free Radio” on WALE (990 AM in Providence, RI), the first commercial, prime time, GLBT talk show in the nation.

At the same time as the HIV/AIDS epidemic was unfolding, there was also an emergence of a new spiritual consciousness happening throughout the country that had an impact on Glenn. This spiritual emergence led Glenn to explore a variety of spiritual philosophies. Glenn studied Hindu mysticism and yoga, which led him to Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts where Glenn was a resident for nineteen months. It was there that Glenn discovered the intersection between western psychology and Eastern spirituality, which led him to return to graduate school to study western psychology and become a psychotherapist. Glenn’s interest in Eastern spirituality and psychology has spanned twenty years; Glenn has had a daily meditation practice for at least that long and is currently a student of Tibetan Mahamudra meditation with Daniel P. Brown, PhD.