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When Professional Help Does Not Understand Cross-Cultural Relationships

My therapist is white and when I talk about problems in my interracial relationship she seems to minimize the racial dynamics involved.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Seeking healing becomes another site of cultural translation when the helper cannot see the wound.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Interracial and Cross-Cultural Partnerships?”

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