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Contacting a Potential Therapist
Nov. 28th, 2017 08:45 amI'm feeling down this morning. Anxiety over bed bugs and related issues makes everything else a little harder to deal with.
I went hunting for therapists yesterday. Regrettably, the LGBTQ-focused group that Danae's therapist belongs to does not accept my insurance. Looking through Psychology Today's listings of therapists, I found a few people who seem like good matches for me. I contacted the first one today, asking whether zie might have time in zir schedule for a new client. Zie focuses on gender and trans issues as well as anxiety, and feels social justice and inclusion are an important part of zir approach. Here's zir profile.
For reasons it's difficult to articulate, I feel uncomfortable about working with male mental health professionals. PT allows searching by binary gender only, and every other person I have on my list of potentials seems fairly unambiguously female-identified. Dr. Minshew is sorted into the 'male' list, and though that made me a bit uncomfortable at first, zie seems so well-fitted to me in so many other ways that I feel positive about zir, and zir portrait makes me think zie may be non-binary zirself. Anyway, we'll see what comes.
I went hunting for therapists yesterday. Regrettably, the LGBTQ-focused group that Danae's therapist belongs to does not accept my insurance. Looking through Psychology Today's listings of therapists, I found a few people who seem like good matches for me. I contacted the first one today, asking whether zie might have time in zir schedule for a new client. Zie focuses on gender and trans issues as well as anxiety, and feels social justice and inclusion are an important part of zir approach. Here's zir profile.
For reasons it's difficult to articulate, I feel uncomfortable about working with male mental health professionals. PT allows searching by binary gender only, and every other person I have on my list of potentials seems fairly unambiguously female-identified. Dr. Minshew is sorted into the 'male' list, and though that made me a bit uncomfortable at first, zie seems so well-fitted to me in so many other ways that I feel positive about zir, and zir portrait makes me think zie may be non-binary zirself. Anyway, we'll see what comes.
