Our care path consists of a minimum of 13 treatments, which are aimed, among other things, at figuring out your wishes regarding your transition. Based on your intake and an evaluation of your care needs, the team determines together with you what your trajectory should be. The minimum trajectory takes 6 months and consists of 13 treatments, the longest trajectory lasts 18 – 24 months.

What does the first phase consist of?

• You have an intake interview with a practitioner and with your assigned coordinating practitioner, who will complete a questionnaire with you called the Honos+.
  • The Honos+ is a questionnaire that asks very broadly what you encounter in your daily life.
  • During the general intake you will be discussed about your wishes with regard to the treatment via Genderhealthcare. Your healthcare goals will always be central to this.
  • We may discover together that you would like help for other things you encounter. In that case, we will also include those requests for help in your treatment plan.
• After the 2 intake days, your intake will be discussed at the consultation moment of the practitioners and coordinating practitioners and it will be determined which practitioner is best for you.
  • Sometimes you stay with the practitioner of the intake, but sometimes a better match is expected from another practitioner or another practitioner has more time to help you. In that case you will be scheduled with someone else for the follow-up.
  • If there is not a place with a practitioner immediately after the intake, you may have to wait a while until your treatment really starts. We make sure that we keep you well informed when you can start and monitor how you are doing. The maximum time you have to wait between the intake and the start of treatment is 6 months.
• The diagnostic phase that follows lasts an average of 6 months. In this period;
  • You form your transition treatment plan with your personal goals together with your therapist.
  • You write an insight to your life story and deepen it together with your therapist
  • There will be a heteroanamnesis (discussion with you and a loved one) done. This discusses the sustainability of the wish, the general development, the presence of support from your network and investigates whether your loved ones also have questions regarding your transition.
  • You will be guided in describing the expression of gender dysphoria as you experience it or exploring your gender identity further. This way you can get help in exploring what suits you if you find it difficult to investigate this yourself and you can experience under supervision what suits you or not.
  • You will have an information meeting with the Genderhealthcare doctor about hormone treatment, if this is something you are considering.
  • The practitioner will write a summary report (transfer report) with you, requesting a second opinion interview.
  • At the end of this diagnostic phase, you have a second opinion interview in which, based on a conversation with you and by reading the transfer report, it is examined whether you are ready for the next phase at that time (hormone treatment, surgery, etc.).
    • If for whatever reason you are not yet ready for the next phase, the practitioner or coordinating practitioner will make a plan with you on how you can work towards this as well as possible. After the period that you have worked on this, the second opinion interview is simply conducted again with the aim of transitioning to the next phase at that time.