ABSTRACT
Experiences for the community of gender and sexual diversity (inexhaustibly, this includes bisexual, lesbian, gay, intersex, questioning, and transgender persons; Reicherzer, 2006), which I will call the queer community, represent unique challenges in a culture in which there are a given set of rules of how to act as women and men. For clients of this community, these unique challenges are best met by appropriate use of therapist self-disclosure in the therapeutic relationship. This chapter indicates a work in progress; it represents my journey, both personally and professionally, as a queer therapist who continually expands in relational definition.
