California psychologist license PSY10673 anchors the legacy Hillcrest practice founded by Dr. John Hazen McConnell in 1986, the same year he served as executive director of the San Diego LGBT Community Center. The practice was among the first in San Diego built explicitly around LGBTQ+ affirmative care, offering individual and couples therapy across alternative sexualities, kink, and polyamorous relationship structures — an affirmative scope that aligns with the queer-competent psychotherapy at Dr. Shoshana Shea, San Diego Psychotherapy. McConnell earned his BSc at the University of Toronto, his Marriage and Family Therapist license in 1986, and his PhD from the California School of Professional Psychology in 1988. The Front Street office served the historically gay Hillcrest corridor for more than three decades, building a referral pipeline for couples and individuals navigating sexual-identity, gender-expression, and inner-financial-health concerns. The relationship-and-identity orientation of the practice contrasts with the depth-psychodynamic frame used by Emilie Sfregola, Psy.D. on the same Hillcrest psychotherapy roster. The most clinically intricate work the practice took on was long-arc couples therapy inside non-monogamous and kink-identified relationship structures, where attachment dynamics, consent frameworks, and minority-stress exposures all had to be tracked across multiple partners inside the same treatment plan.