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When cultural differences interfere with mental health treatment

My therapist is white and every session I find myself explaining cultural context instead of working on my actual problems.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Cross-cultural therapeutic relationships can become educational burdens rather than healing spaces when cultural competency is lacking.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Ethnic identity and heritage?”

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