Different thoughts:
My therapist and I have worked on individual problems, childhood contributions to psychopathology, as well as maladaptive thinking patterns. She's doing more Schema Therapy work than the more "superficial" CBT.
The classic "depression triad" addressed by CBTers includes "views of the self", "views of others/the world", and "views of the future". Thus, how I view myself, issues of hopelessness, and what I assume others think should all be explored. We have discussed how gender affects my experience of things, I don't know why she is treating sexual orientation as a different thing (not that they are necessarily equivalent).
Even though I am married to a man, that does not make me any less bisexual. It is an identity, something I've struggled with, and I am still attracted to men and women. I actually fear that she does NOT understand this (a lot of folks do not), which is incredibly invalidating to my experience.
I guess my thought would be that she would be interested in addressing any thinking pattern (eg., "there is something wrong with me") that relates to my schema, and thoughts about being different.
Psychologists are also trained to address/take into account issues of diversity (religion, SES, sexual orientation, gender, race, immigration status).
She also doesn't follow up when I talk about issues of race...but that's a whole other story.
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