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When therapy partners disagree about approaches to racial and cultural competence

My therapy practice partners and I come from different racial backgrounds and we're struggling to develop policies around cultural competence because we each have strong opinions about what good cross-cultural therapy looks like based on our own experiences.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Professional partners are finding that their different racial identities create conflicting perspectives on how to serve clients across racial differences.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Racial identity — lived experience?”

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