David Matheson
Quick Facts
Biography
David Matheson is a campaigner known for advocacy of conversion therapy. In 2019, he announced he was divorcing his wife of 34 years and intended to live as a gay man. He previously led the organization Journey into Manhood.
Matheson was an early protege of Joseph Nicolosi, who founded the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH).
Matheson, a Mormon, said “he was not renouncing his religious faith, or the entirety of his work as a conversion therapist, despite dating men. But he did criticise the "shame-based, homophobic-based system" of his upbringing in the Mormon church.”
He and his wife had three children and one grandchild.
Career
Matheson has a master’s in counseling and guidance from Brigham Young University and began full-time practice in New Jersey in 2004.He counseled only men and the goal was always to develop what he called “gender wholeness.”