Identity and Intersectionality

What it looks like in your head: hurt, anger, or frustration over the injustices you or your community have experienced, hopelessness and helplessness over systemic racism and oppression, feeling misunderstood by your non-POC peers, feeling caught between two or more cultures, feeling pressure to acculturate according to the expectations of those around you, feeling silenced or voiceless, anxiety over your or your loved ones’ immigration status, feeling fearful for your and your loved ones’ well-being

What it looks like in your body: fatigue, muscle tension, chronic pain, restlessness, heaviness, insomnia, change in appetite, lack of energy or motivation

What you can expect from therapy: our goal will be to create a safe space to share not only your hurts and struggles but also to celebrate the beauty and power of your identity. This may include:

• Addressing and exploring intergenerational or historical trauma

• Validating your emotional and physical responses to the pain of our communities

• Using an empowerment-based approach to find strength in your identities 

• Practicing having conversations about power dynamics and race in the therapy room 

• Accountability on my part in recognizing and using my positions of privilege to enact change on society’s oppressive systems, including mental health and medical systems