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59. Cat Cattinson on Reclaiming Her Voice After Detransition

You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist

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The Relational Psychodynamic Foundation for a Therapist

A therapist's role is to be a neutral witness in your life that can hold up a mirror and help you work out this conflict within you. A lot of these therapists will sign up like the Gallup, the gender-affirming letter projects with no questions asked at the first visit. And even if I was doing it the tenth visit, now I've had these relational processes play out with clients like years into therapy and it takes a long time to get there. Kat Kinsman: Why shouldn't you have some doubt as to whether this decision is right for you? So thanks for bearing with me because I needed to find the words for that and hope she finds them too.

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