My therapists political views sometimes have matched mine and sometimes have not, but honestly, it wasn't something that came up in therapy so it was a non-issue. How did I know their views if we didn't discuss them? Lots of time and just getting to know each other bit by bit. I didn't discuss politics in relation to what I was working on in therapy, so it honestly didn't matter to me what their views were.

I've learned long ago that I can have different political views than other people and still think quite highly of them. It seems a rather narrow way of living for me to write people off completely because their political views differ from my own. I also try not to stereotype people of an particular political view as ALL being such and such or NEVER doing such and such. It simply isn't that black and white.