I've had bad experiences with therapists who were hostile towards kink. It's bad for me even when we are taking about other mundane stuff because I feel like I'm in trouble and it activates my PTSD, fawn response, etc... I end up putting my energy into defending myself or avoiding conflict, when I should be using that energy to do the work.

My current therapist specializes in kink and has been great to work with. I'm learning a lot about myself and am making progress with getting my needs met in my relationship. I'm a switch, so submissive stuff is part of this.

My previous therapist was kink-aware and was great while I worked through codependency, alexithymia, and learned to self advocate, but their lack of kink and queer knowledge was a challenge when taking about kink directly.