I've been blasted and called entitled here on PC by someone for wanting my T to have LGBTQ training and for being wary of her because she's Christian. Even though I come from a very homophobic society where lots of Christians are prejudiced towards LGBTQ persons and seek to deny us civil rights. My T is Christian of not sure what denomination, and I come from a Christian denomination which sees LGBTQ persons like myself as abomination. I'm now an atheist.

So to me it was very important to know what my T believes in the area of LGBTQ persons and I asked her outright in our first session because I've experienced a lot of rejection by Christians. I also had a openly Christian psychiatrist who suggested I seek conversion therapy, and had another therapist who was Christian ask invasive questions for me to "prove" my sexual orientation. My country is very HOMOPhobic. Not as bad as the Middle East but not good either.

That said I know not all Christians are homophobic, though a lot I've met in my country are. It has been very healing to know T believes in a kinder, loving Christianity than the one I was indoctrinated in.

I'm OK with T being Christian because she respects my non beliefs and generally doesn't mention god or Satan etc though sometimes she still does so.