Poll Female Or Male Therapist?

[afuneralinmybrain]

Male. I feel like female therapists are more likely to judge my sexual orientation/gender presentation. If she knows I'm into women then I'm afraid she'll think I'm disgusting. Or the way I dress or my short hair. I don't ever know if she's thinking something like, "Oh no, not this dyke patient."
For some reason I feel like male therapists won't judge me that way.
The same logic makes me not want anything to do with Christian therapists because I never know how fundamental they are.

 

[Deleted member 1860]

Prefer male as most of my abusers have been female.

Guys are safe, girls are not.

 

[Tanishq]

I am male, I would prefer female therapist.

It is amazing how women's intuition tends to help me most and they have helped me a lot last couple of years. Short, precise and powerful advice. There is much more in what they say sometimes. Hard to describe. I have been abused by men, so I feel hard with men.

 

[Friday]

I don't get on with most women. The ones I do get one with, I tend to get on famously with :)!, but it's a very small percentage. Meanwhile I tend to get on with the majority of men. I like the way men think, in general. So there's that, which just kind of stacks the deck against a female therapist. Add in that my primary trauma was in a 'mans world' means that there are even fewer women who have much or any first hand experience with it, or even want second hand experience. Also, oddly (or not), the ones who do tend to not get on with women, either. So they range from awkward to openly hostile. Shrug. It generally means a male therapist is the safe bet.

 

[ButterflyDisco]

no men, men do bad stuffs to me...

 

[holdenmonty]

The two times I have seen a therapist they have both been women and in all honesty I feel most comfortable talking about my issues with a woman maybe it's because the expected response from a guy is to suck it up. My phycologist is a guy but I feel very comfortable with him but that's because he has been deployed like I have so I can relate.

 

[mikeyo]

ptsd started 8 years ago . I have been to see male and female . Females have a more open heart than the males i have seen
7 year with the same openhearted woman

 

[Deleted member 29920]

I found 2 male NHS psychologists to be very arrogant and minimised the severity of my issues . The females were slightly better and more caring /understanding .

 

[Britt.f7]

I put female, but after losing two therapists to pregnancies, I am giving a male a try. I did it while I was in patient. Only one visit but so far so good. He assured me he isn't going anywhere for the next ten years. Hopefully I'm not in therapy that long. lol

 

[Deleted member 34424]

Oh boy! I've had so many therapists and psychiatrists in my life that I think at this point it doesn't matter the sex.

I've always gotten along with men and I don't associate all men with being molested by a man. The best therapist I have had, and still am working with, is my current therapist, who's a man. I had a female therapist for a long time and she didn't help me at all and we ended badly. Then I went to him and stayed.