Now that things have become more settled for me, I feel like I have a lot that would feel good to talk about which I feel is too self-indulgent to talk about with friends or whatever. Speaking of transition itself, however, I was really clear about where this was going for me and my therapist just wanted me to talk it out while they sat there like a lump. I didn't need to talk it out, I didn't have that much to say really--I needed to just get going. I went to 4 sessions, they were mostly unhelpful, but I got my letter for HRT and that was the thing I needed.
If my therapist was more the type to push and help me I may have found that extremely helpful during that time, but sitting there taking notes and saying nothing was not helpful at all. But, like I said at the beginning of this post, now it's a different story. I would love to have somebody sit quietly while I got everything that I'm bothered with off my chest, which the subject of gender would be a part of, but mostly it's other things.
