Culturally Sensitive Therapy emphasizes people’s various ethnic and cultural backgrounds within the therapeutic relationship.
Some approaches to therapy aim to treat every client the same — utilizing similar techniques, ways of communicating, and explanations of concepts. These therapists understand the importance of different cultures and recognize that these differences can impact the way someone experiences therapy. By bringing these experiences to the forefront of therapy, your therapist will validate your unique background and use it to work on your strengths and propel you toward your goals.
Your therapist will have foundational knowledge about your specific ethnic, cultural, and linguistic differences. They also will continue learning more about how your culture affects your life experiences.
Culturally Sensitive Therapy’s goal is to make you feel more comfortable and understood, not only when it comes to culture and ethnicity, but also religion, race, age, ability, gender, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
Your therapist will employ counseling techniques to help you on your healing journey. They also will serve as an advocate for your particular identities in the community by connecting you to culturally-sensitive resources. Ultimately, the therapy should make you feel comfortable and understood. When the therapeutic space is safer, you will be more likely to benefit from the process.
Therapists Who Specialize in Using Culturally Sensitive Therapy
I work primarily with adults and couples, both on and off the autism spectrum. My practice emphasizes humanistic and client-centered counseling, but I also draw techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy, family systems, and mindfulness practices. As my background includes experience both in the arts and in the computer tech field, I am drawn to both "left-brained" (analytical) and...
Has your spark been dimmed by low mood, anxious thoughts, prolonged grief, or a general sense of unease? Are you ready to emerge as the dynamic person you know you are? I can help you get back to you. The YOU before trauma took over. As a UCSF trained family therapist with over a decade of experience helping people recover from unrelenting worry, I've developed an evidence-based formula to help...
Life is hard, even when it's going well. And then there are the times that it isn't going well, and we need to expand our network of care. Therapy is a helpful process in both times of life. I work to connect with you, follow your needs, support you in the growth and transformation you crave, and help you through the discomfort that change can bring. I believe in the closeness of dualities, suc...
Worrying a lot? Feeling down -just not yourself? Maybe your focus and concentration aren't there. Burned out? A recent or chronic health condition could be impacting your mood. Your health, relationships or work are suffering. You don't know where to start, but know there has to be a path to healing. Your story, culture, values and feelings matter. This may mean processing your experience. This...
I offer therapy for people who are seeking growth or change but feel stuck about how to move forward. This may be wanting a deeper connection to yourself and others, difficulties with stress, mood, or emotions, trouble adjusting to a life transition/event, relationship challenges, or identity issues. I value building a trusting therapeutic relationship that inspires openness, curiosity, and...
My style is interactive and collaborative. I bring my knowledge of psychological theories, and you bring information about your experiences, perceptions, and your understanding of your current situation. Together we will work on developing a common understanding of the key issue that brings you to therapy, and together we will set goals for our work together. I am drawn to theories that aim to...
I do my best work with people who feel disconnected, lost, or overwhelmed. I do well with those who have endured long-term emotional abuse and have complicated families. I work well with people who are teachers or who work in other high-stress/helping professions. My approach is collaborative, empowering, nonjudgmental, trauma-informed, & goal focused. I integrate modalities such as ACT, CBT,...
I would invite you to consider the wonderful, unharnessed potential that dwells inside of you. I can teach you how to explore and tap into that, so that eventually I'm obsolete. That's the task that any ethical therapist sets out to do. Through a trusting, open and thoughtful therapeutic relationship, we can address any number of concerns. Sometimes, it's just nice to have a nonjudgmental, genu...
While I approach therapy from a Cognitive Behavioral perspective, focusing on challenging thoughts and changing behaviors, I do so with the primary focus on respect for my patients and their individual issues. I want you to feel supported in session but also know that you will be challenged and tasked with completing goals in between sessions. I greatly enjoy helping my patients reach their own...
My goal is to develop respectful, warm and supportive relationships with individuals, so that issues of concern can be discussed and addressed with the utmost care. I specialize in working with adolescents and adults on a wide range of mental health concerns including relationship difficulties, personal unhappiness and adjustment issues, depression, anxiety, developmental/transitional...
Flexibility and humility are the characteristics that guide my practice. Informed by current research on attachment and brain development,I am passionate about each person's potential for change through connection to others. My clients have the opportunity to feel supported and heard with empathy, humor, and intelligence. Using CBT, motivational interviewing, and mindfulness practices, I work w...
I believe strongly in the power of personal change and that you can make change at any point in your life. Sometimes in your desire to change you can feel stuck or uncertain. These feelings are ones that many people experience. These feelings are also able to be overcome through therapy and therapeutic interventions. You do not need to let your emotions stop you from making change in your life....
I am particularly effective in working with bright and highly sensitive teens. During this pandemic, I believe that our most perceptive, sensitive adolescents are having the biggest mental health challenges with not seeing friends, family, and teachers on a more regular basis. I have extensive experience as a School Counselor in both private and public schools in the SF Bay Area. I also have...
I believe the development of a secure and collaborative relationship is the most important aspect of the work I do with clients. Working from a strengths-based and relational perspective in a trauma informed manner, I have experience working with at-risk youth, families, and adults using a multi-theoretical approach including attachment theory, cognitive-behavioral, family systems, narrative...
One of my greatest passions is helping couples in intercultural relationships/marriages. I speak English, Mandarin, and Taiwanese. I've been in practice for over 16 years. I use primarily Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dr. John Gottman's research methods to help individuals, couples and families who struggle with communication, intimacy, depression, anxiety, panic disorders, anger management...
