https://www.sexualwholeness.com/current-therapist-list and

https://genderexploratory.com/business-directory/

are both places people can find therapists who offer gender exploratory therapy. I am a therapist with Sexual Wholeness, which trains Christian counselors in the field of sex therapy. We are trained to utilize the gender exploratory model for clients with gender dysphoria.

I just want to chime in here and say that this is not at all the standard clinicians are held to. All of our ethical codes instruct us to use evidence based practices. "Gender Affirmation" treatments are not considered to be evidenced based at this point in time. We also now have proof that even WPATH members admit this in secret in the WPATH files. One clinician even noted specifically that Informed Consent isn't really possible when working with this vulnerable population.

"Gender Affirmation" treatments are considered to be the Standard of Care by WPATH, but it is not evidenced based because we have no evidence showing us that they help reduce dysphoria or reduce suicidality. In fact, the Cass Report delineates the shocking lack of evidence in these practices.

Clients ask me to do a lot of things that could potentially harm them and as their therapist, it is my job to tell them "no." I've been asked to do things such as trying to recall repressed memories, provide conversion therapy, and to enable abusive spouses in marriages. I have expressly told all of these clients "no" since all of these have significant likelihood of harm and there is no evidence to back up the practice.

Clinicians who only do as asked by their patients or clients under the guise of Informed Consent are almost certainly committing malpractice and should have their licenses to practice taken away from them through the appropriate governing body.

Genderexploratory.com is not religious at all. And most Christian counselors through the Institute for Sexual Wholeness are going to be fully capable of providing excellent therapy to people who are not Christian. I have seen several clients over the years who come from various religious backgrounds and it was still a quality fit.

Lastly, it took me having some sense knocked into me that yes, our bodies are shrines. Just because you don't like the way it looks doesn't mean that it's a bad body. Your body, the way it is, is the reason you are alive right now. It fights with all its strength when you are ill, it helps you feel all the pleasures you've felt in your life. It will try to fight, tolerate and endure all the physical and emotional damage that you experience until it's last breath.

Even as someone who isn't trans, this still resonates so much! It is a shrine worth my respect, and I need to remember that when I don't especially like the way it looks. Thank you for the reminder and encouragement :)

They do exist! I am actually one of those therapists. I would recommend a few resources to find someone like myself.

If you are open to someone who views gender through the lens of the Christian faith, then ISW would be the place to go. This is where I was trained and Mark Yarhouse is the resident expert on all things LGBT+ for us. We are trained in utilizing methods that are ethical and neutral regarding gender identity and are also not going to prosthelytize our clients.

Gender Exploratory Therapy Association is a place that lists mental health professionals around the world who do not affirm and are willing to take a more neutral stance about gender identity.

Partners for Ethical Care is a place that has a multitude of various types of resources, including therapy resources all over the world.

Thoughtful Therapists is a group of therapists from the UK and Ireland who question affirmative care and promote a neutral approach to trans and GD issues.

I hope that helps. If you need more help, feel free to DM me. I believe very strongly in people getting the ethical help for their gender dysphoria that they need and I will do my best to find you help meets your needs.

I'm a counselor, not trans. I'm subscribed because I'm concerned, and a bit skeptical, about the wave of people newly identifying as trans. I like to be informed about all approaches to an issue as a therapist and this is an excellent forum for that.

I will also add that I find tremendous encouragement to be a better quality therapist when I read everyone's stories here.

I would encourage you to look into Gender Exploratory Therapy. The website https://genderexploratory.com has lots of helps on how to incorporate this type of treatment into your repertoire and provides an ability to advertise yourself this way. I am one of their providers and I get tons of contacts all over the country pretty regularly for this type of treatment. They also offer trainings and meetings for its members.

I will tell you that, as a therapist, I feel tremendous pressure to conform to trans affirmative therapy. I would love to be allowed to explore my trans client's stories in more depth and even challenge them some, but I risk lawsuits and my license if I engage in that type of therapy. Some might say I'm being overly dramatic, but I have listened as the Southern Poverty Law Center said at a conference I attended that they were in the process of "hunting down" therapists who don't conform. Talk about chilling.

Strangely enough I think we are drawing a false binary when it comes to "Affirmation Therapy" and "Conversion Therapy." There are a myriad of other ways to approach therapy with the LGBT+ community. This ban tells therapists they can only do one type of therapy when the issue is transgender.

I just wanted to chime in to speak up about the responsibility that a clinician holds when providing their services. 

The whole idea that a patient bears any kind of responsibility in engaging in transgender medicine is blatantly false. There is something called "Informed Consent" that is required when I engage with any patient. I have to review the pros, cons, and boundaries of any kind of treatment with them. 

I specifically remember when the WPATH files dropped, there was an account of one professional talking about how informed consent is impossible with many patients. I'm still astonished that transgender medicine is allowed to be performed on anyone under the age of 25 when the frontal lobes of the brain have finally developed.

To answer your question, OP, medical and healthcare ethicists would say you bear no responsibility whatsoever since informed consent was not secured. It couldn't be because trans medicine is still experimental. We have no reliable research on long term effects of these types of interventions. But you weren't told it was experimental, which also means you weren't given informed consent.