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When encountered over and over, discrimination and stereotyping can really do a number on us, even leading to low-self esteem and mental health problems.
Our trained therapists have the awareness, knowledge, and training to address these issues for clients of ALL cultures, genders, religions, sexual orientations, and more.
Through research-based, scientifically validated therapy methods, we help you unpack, explore, and work through your mental health issues, keeping culture and diversity concerns front and center.
Culture, beliefs, and race can play a major role in relationships and how we engage with others, and sometimes, when these values clash, people can make insensitive and hurtful comments––or worse.
Hate crimes can pose a serious threat to our lives and discrimination has very real consequences on our job prospects, earnings, and overall well-being.
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Identity-based discrimination is unfortunately “both common and often prohibited by law,” so understanding the specific issues at hand is important to start bringing about meaningful change.
Some issues individuals face when it comes to culture, racial identity, and ethnicity include discrimination, prejudice, and bias.
Discrimination means acting upon negative stereotypes against a group of people, while prejudice is when people form unfavorable assumptions about a group of people, but don’t necessarily act upon them.
Although “over half of young people [in the United States] are children of color,” issues of diversity, racism, and discrimination continue to remain prevalent in today’s society.
Unfortunately, examples of this are not just found in the history books: racism and discrimination continue today in very real ways.
For example, in a recent study, African Americans with non-“white” names, had to submit more resumes than their white counterparts just to receive a job callback.
In another study, interviewers displayed more warmth, openness, and enthusiasm when interviewing white candidates and were more closed off and cold when interviewing black applicants.
Through these examples, we see how discrimination and unfair treatment can be direct and explicit or subtle and implicit and can have very real effects on our daily lives and opportunities.
Discrimination can also come into play with regard to socioeconomic status (SES). Some common obstacles can include discrimination in the workplace, such as being rejected because a candidate doesn’t “fit the image of the company” or being turned down if an applicant can’t afford a car.
Another form of discrimination is rooted in gender dynamics, especially among women with regard to equal pay in the workplace.
Women still only receive 82 cents for every dollar a man makes.
Statistics also show that “black women working full-time, year round typically make only 62 cents for every dollar paid to their white, non-Hispanic male counterparts.”
The gap is even larger for Latina women, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders, and is the largest for Native American women, who make 57 cents for every dollar a man makes.
This disparity can impact all aspects of life and have reverberating effects on a person’s well-being, productivity, and quality of life.
Some faith groups, ethnicities, and religious adherents are targeted for their beliefs and traditions.
Religion and spirituality are central aspects of our experience and these parts of our identities are important to incorporate into the therapeutic process.
Check out our Spirituality page to learn more about our therapy services that integrate faith and spirituality.
It’s our commitment to work with you from a place of cultural sensitivity, with awareness of experiences and issues unique to BIPOC, LGBTQ+, BDSM/Kink, women, men, and diverse religious and spiritual backgrounds.
Diversity is valuable and essential.
Our diversity-sensitive, educated, and compassionate therapists are here to listen and to offer our expertise to guide you in this complicated terrain.
Our evidence-based, scientifically proven interventions are demonstrated to be effective for overcoming mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and trauma (and much more).
Learn more about our empirically based therapy modalities by visiting our Methods page.
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I am blown away! I don’t write testimonials, unless I have been extremely moved by something. I was blessed to work with Brooke on a single session, and before this I was in therapy on and off with multiple therapists for the last 20 years of my life. Brooke was able to do more in one session than many years of work with my previous therapist. She has the true gift of great insight and compassion while also getting straight to the heart of your blind spots and unconscious issues in a way that has truly changed my life.
Skyler J.
There are people who are good at their work there are people like Brooke: who are born to do it. I cannot recommend Brooke more highly. I can only imagine where I would be today if I had started working with her years ago. From the beginning of our session, she knew exactly what tools and questions that would work for my particular psychology and my personal experience. No other therapist has been able to do that or anything close.
What I also really appreciate from our session is Brooke's ability to go directly to the source of the issue while also keeping a very gentle and kind energy with me. I felt very seen, understood, and supported. Everything and more that I could have ever asked for from a therapist. I have a severe trauma history and complex issues she was able to immediately identify and help. If she could help me, I know she can help you too.
Taylor E.
You did more in 45 minutes than my last therapist did in a year.
Jamie
With your help, I've finally started to understand that while my vivid imagination often wants to create terrifying monsters under the bed, in a lot of cases those monsters are nothing more than a heap of decidedly less-terrifying laundry I've avoided for too long that just needs to be aired out and put away. Which is definitely a lot easier than monster slaying. Thank you for shedding light in the dark places I was too afraid to face alone.
Morgan B.
I am extremely fortunate to work with Sydney, who is helping me create real internal change. The talent to listen well is Hall of Fame stuff, and she has that. She then follows with questions, strategies that are organic to the moment. I have come to believe that deep, radical, if occasionally deeply painful change ... and, then, healing can happen. I'm just at the lip of that last part - but would not have gotten there, AT ALL, without Sydney
Ric K.
The best therapist ever! Life-changing 🙂
Catherine H.
Right now, the work is changing my life, sometimes in inches, sometimes in miles.
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