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Tania Glyde is a therapist and author with an interest in sexual diversities. She says it's partly lack of affordable training that's leaving therapists unable to cope with anything apart from the most meat and potatoes version of gender or sexuality."You can go deep into long-term psychotherapy training but learn nothing much about working with gender and sexual diversities," Glyde says. "One of the biggest roadblocks to change is money. Training costs a fortune, and this excludes a number of people and makes the population of people who qualify very homogenous. This applies to race, ethnicity, and class, and also to those who are gender or sexually diverse."We're lucky to have the services that cater to the UK's soaring rate of mental health issues, and should be grateful to those who work in them. But these services are among the gatekeepers of "normality;" this is the place you go at your most vulnerable, trusting you'll get your head together enough to carry on with life. It's vital, then, that understandings of normality are wide enough to encompass everyone.It would be hard to argue that the patriarchal, heteronormative society we live in is working for everyone, and those who chip away at its rigid boundaries should be supported.Follow Frankie on Twitter.Kerry finally received help through an LGBT charity and is now training to be a therapist themself. Lisa has also accessed psychotherapy and says she has turned her life around. She's volunteering at Mind in Springfield.If you need a therapist who understands gender or sexual diversity try Gender Spectrum or Gay Alliance."You can go deep into long-term psychotherapy training but learn nothing much about working with gender and sexual diversities." –Tania Glyde