Hi all: It has been a while since I post.
I started therapy since February this year, at the time I was in a very high anxiety mode about transitioning and I think it was time to get some therapy.
When I went to my first session, I think I started off very strong with my therapist, stating that I have "Gender dysphoria" as I had diagnosed my self for a while. My therapist became very interested and she took me in.
She is a sex therapist but she does not have much experience treating transgender people she told me, but I gave it a try, since her professional experience in general seemed pretty prominent.
I have been for more than 5 months and I feel kind of stuck with the subject.
I as normal practice in therapy I suppose, I speak about my every day life as well as my history. But at some point the subjects are only about my closest relationships, which play a part in my struggles to come out to them, but kind of setting aside the real point of me being in therapy.
And that is that I started therapy because mainly I wanted to find out if I am really Transgender or not.
Talking every week about this or that problem or issue with my wife, work, family, that does not necessary have to do with my dysphoria, has been dragging for weeks, and I feel basically in the same page as I was the first day of therapy.
I have already told her that I want to explore more the symptoms, causes, or patterns, forgetting a bit about my everyday issues that have nothing to do with Transgenderism.
Any way the point of my post is to see if you have any advise, so I can suggest my therapist what subjects to explore and how to concentrate on what I feel about transitioning etc, etc.
I just think that I go round and round like a dog chasing it's tail.
Thank you,
Paola.