Hey, y'all. Welcome back to Made It Out. I am so excited about today's episode. It's with LGBTQ affirmative psychotherapist Bonnie Ray. And we answer all of y'all's questions about dating. You are constantly in our comments, emails, DMs asking all of the questions about lesbian dating culture. So we went to the expert and we're having her answer

them all.

Thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. Of course. Can we start? Just I want you to give

your impressive background and why you're uniquely qualified

to be here because we were very impressed by it and I just want to hear a little bit about it.

And what led you into the field you're in?

So I've been a practicing psychotherapist for around 13 years now. What led me into it, probably my own

therapy, my own relationship with a therapist who happened to also be lesbian identified,

which is how I identify, and really just needing that mirroring. And I have the luckiest job in the

world. I really, really feel that way. have the luckiest job in the world.

I really, really feel that way.

I love that.

I have the best job in the world.

I also taught for a while.

I was an instructor at a graduate school for psychology.

So for five, six years, I taught a lesbian identity, lesbian love liberation class, and a queer women loving other queer women class.

Oh my gosh.

I forget about that part.

That's the most important part.

You are the perfect person to have here.

We get so many questions about, like we get DMs, comments, emails about lesbian dating and just like

why it is the way it is.

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