In my world of pink ponies and ideal psychologists, there was never a question about adding “friendly” to my professional profile. And the point is not even that a psychologist should be “friendly to anything in life,” it’s just that life is life, and work is work. And a professional must have reliable up-to-date information about what is normal/not normal, and also understand the boundaries of his competence and moral capabilities (here I mean that if a specialist is itching for something to begin to correct the client’s orientation, then you can simply redirect him to a specialist with less severe itching in this regard). Otherwise, the problems of someone who requires the “friendly” prefix to work with are, as a rule, not so specific. Yes, for example, LGBT* people are significantly susceptible to rejection, both from society and directly from within, but this should be considered as a risk factor, and not a separate problem. LGBT*+ affiliation, femme views are not a separate disease, not a separate competence. There is even such a view on these notes in the questionnaire: this is oppression, this is discrimination, emphasizing a certain SPECIFICITY. Or some see this as a kind of sycophancy, a sign of “I’m so accepting and modern.” To be honest, it smells like something like that to me too. BUT! Let's look at the choice of a specialist from the client's side. Nowadays it is generally difficult for a client/patient to find a normal specialist, and not only among psychologists, but also among doctors. So everyone comes in with their own, by no means professional, opinion and life experience. You come for treatment, and you get: “What did you want when you were at that age and not married!” - and this is advice for the average girl, by the way, of almost any age. Now let’s look at the choice of a specialist from the point of view of an LGBT* representative; society has already made it clear to him that he is special, and this feature is not something that anyone likes; perhaps the person has even faced threats: “I’ll take you to a psychologist/ to a psychiatrist, you will be cured there!” How can he avoid running into the “corrector”? Perhaps, only according to this very “friendly” label, because he may simply not have the resources to audition. That is, this “label” is the easiest way for a client to find a psychopractitioner who will not offend at least on this issue, and for the therapist to show that he is open to such requests. For myself, I still can’t decide to call myself “something -friendly” psychologist, it simply doesn’t occur to me to write this label voluntarily, but when they ask me, I add it. Or do you have any other ideas to somehow show that I am not Dr. Mengele?* LGBT is a movement whose activities are recognized as extremist and prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation.