Unfortunately the two therapists I've spoken to about my CSA past have reacted
(a) by immediately throwing a lot of explicit questions at me about the details of my experience, which ended up really triggering me, and
(b) by telling me they'd had other clients who'd been through a lot worse, and then describing their experiences to me.

I was really thrown by both situations, neither of which seem to me to represent well reasoned handling on their parts. Had I not been so shocked by the elements of lacking empathy that they each so uniquely expressed, I might have thought to interrupt them, slow them down, and enlighten them as to how they might more gently approach my most formative traumatic experiences, but I was quite simply like a deer in the headlights in both situations. Otherwise, I think it could have been well worth proactively having a conversation about their practice experience in talking about CSA, and about their personal approach to the topic. If I'd only known then what I know now..