I'm pretty sure I would feel more comfortable with a male. Women tend to mistrust each other anyhow, and when you're seeing a therapist it would seem like if there's any chance of it working you'd have to feel totaly safe. Most of us learned in middle school that if you bare your soul to another female you might find your deepest thoughts turned into fodder for the gossip machine. While I'm 100 percent sure that a therapist would not do that, I think that I would be instinctivley on my guard anyhow, and that would un doubtedly sabotage the therapy. Funny when you think about it, the problem was caused by a man, but it would be harder to trust a woman?