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When Your Therapist Wants You to Label Your Sexual Identity

My therapist keeps asking me to label my sexuality but I'm comfortable with the uncertainty and I feel pressured to fit into categories that don't quite work.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Professional helping relationships can inadvertently impose categorical thinking on experiences that exist more fluidly.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Sexual orientation as identity?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.