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
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( English | español ) Welcome, I’m glad that you are here! It takes courage, valor, and strength to seek support. We all need support, encouragement, and compassion to navigate through life’s journey. There are some days that it takes everything in oneself to get up and face the challenge of the day. When you are experiencing a crisis, a trauma, abuse, anxiety, stress, or depression; just being...
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I graduated from Argosy University in 2014 with a Doctorate of Education in Counseling and Psychology. I love working with individuals and couples and I am skilled in handling the complexities of women's issues, relationship difficulties, career concerns, trauma, anxiety and depression concerns. I am also available to perform Bariatric Assessments and self-report inventories such as the Minneso...
Life can be both messy and beautiful. Life also brings so many opportunities to dive deeper, to transform, and to learn how to love ourselves and others with open hearts. I believe that we all deserve a space to let our feelings be felt. We all deserve to have our experiences witnessed and held with compassion and kindness. My hope is that the therapeutic relationship is a healing one and that ...
