Racial Identity

Exploring topics of racial, cultural, and ethnic background as it relates to one’s family origins and personal identity.

Race means a multitude of things depending who you ask. I have been working with BI&POC communities my entire career with a specialization in mixed individuals navigating their own identity.

I entered the field of therapy because I noticed there is a lack of support and structure for those who are racial minorities. Our world is filled with rhetoric of what it means to be a racial minority now and my goal is to ensure that you belong.

Nicole offers a supportive, affirming space for clients exploring racial identity and its impact on mental health. She understands the challenges of navigating cultural expectations, discrimination, and internalized narratives. Using a trauma-informed, strengths-based approach, she helps clients process experiences, build resilience, and embrace their authentic selves. Her work is rooted in cultural humility, ensuring clients feel seen, valued, and empowered in their unique identities.

I facilitate healing and growth, acknowledging the intersectionality of identities through earned wisdom and lived experience as an Asian American. I navigate sensitive issues, fostering trust and empowerment using cultural healing and incorporating decolonized approaches to therapy. My practice integrates evidence-based techniques with cultural sensitivity, ensuring clients receive affirming and effective support on their journey towards self-discovery and resilience.

I am mixed-race Chicanx and racial identity is something that I have been navigating since early childhood. In that way, much of my relationship with racial identity and mental health is informed by the concept of belongingness and thwarted belongingness as well as systemic oppression.

Sarah's research and clinical experiences revolve around exploring racial identity, particularly among children, adolescents, and young adults.

I support non-white and mixed race folks navigate the beautiful and complex process of exploring their racial identity - specifically outside of a white supremacist lens. Let me hold space for the complexity, nuance, and tenderness of this process, which looks different for everyone.

Coming from a person-centered approach, my approach to therapy relies on the individual exploring their own awareness of issues and tackling them with the support of the therapist. I have experience with multiple cultures and identities through my individual and group practices that have allowed me to explore the grief and loss attached to someone currently or previously experiencing extensive change in their culture.

I am Hispanic so in this country I’m considered a “minority.” I’ve had to learn how to live as a minority in many different cities & countries. I’ve also studied race & ethnicity. I put this awareness & perspective to work –with people & families who are grappling with the reality of what it means to be a person of color in this country, visibly different, visibly other. On my “time off” I work to foster social justice, to help create awareness & change around inequity & oppression of all sorts.

Feeling caught between cultures or questioning your identity can be both confusing and isolating. I provide a supportive space to help you explore your values, make sense of your experiences, and feel more grounded, confident, and authentic in who you are.

As a mixed therapist, I have intersecting experiences of both privilege and oppression. I offer healing from impacts of systems of oppression alongside your personal healing and growth. Grounding our internal experiences in the external world helps us recognize, name, and intentionally navigate systems that often make us feel like we have no choice. Together, we can unpack how we have internalized–and maybe even recreated–these systems of oppression inside ourselves.

I have experience working with folks who want to process their racial and cultural experiences and the ways in which they are impacted. I have also worked with people who feel disconnected from their racial and cultural identities.

Much of my graduate level research and training has been in understanding the complex racial identity development of people of color and White individuals. My dissertation research included examining how Black clients responded to White therapists who overtly broach cross-racial differences in the therapy session.

As a black man in America i first hand understand and have the lived experience of what it is like being black in this country. As a first generation African American, i also have the lived experience of being raised in two different cultures and navigating the different cultural dynamics.

As a Black therapist, I will give you the space to process your identity and racial trauma, as well as, any challenges that come with navigating a white supremacy society.

My expertise is in helping people with multicultural backgrounds integrate their various cultural and racial identities in order to resolve their internal multicultural dissonances.