The Unique Problems Trans People Face When Finding a Therapist [vice.com]

Alicia Doktor 3/20/184:00 AM

Natalie* was excited to begin seeing her therapist.

"I didn't go to see him because I was at a low ebb," she tells me. "It was the opposite. It was five years after beginning my transition, I finally had a semi-stable income and home life. I decided to invest in therapy and try to address some of my issues, which had been going back to my teens and before."

Natalie was 26 years old when she started the sessions. For more than a decade she had suffered from a debilitating eating disorder that had interrupted her school and university education. This was one of the main problems she wanted to address in therapy. Her status as a transgender woman, on the other hand, was not.

[For more on this story by Megan Nolan, go to https://www.vice.com/en_ca/art...-finding-a-therapist]

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