Cultural Sensitivity and Diversity

Expanding our Cultural Lens: Cards for Humanity Activity

Have you ever walked into a setting where you felt that no one can relate to you? What was your emotional experience? How did you feel? Did continue reading

Couples: Talking about money can be really hard - it’s a subject that’s as taboo (if not more) than sex. Everyone is raised with different attitudes towards money, and they carry these values and expectations continue reading

America’s dysfunctions are the highlights of the news. Candidates pointed their fingers at their opponent(s). They dodged answering important questions and continuously displayed reactivity. Therapists teach their clients to grow out of the maladaptive behavior continue reading

Multicultural Competence with Clients: If you’re a psychologist, marriage counselor, social worker, psychiatrist or clinical therapist, it’s important to have a level of multicultural competence with clients, as it allows you to understand your background continue reading

Differences with your Therapist: Talking about differences with your therapist in regards race, gender, sexuality, religion, socioeconomic status, immigration status, nationality, ethnicity, age, indigenous identity, and ability is often a very difficult conversation continue reading

Everybody struggles with cultural sensitivity. You may offer someone pork when they don’t eat it. You may find yourself stumbling to find the correct words or phrase that helps you relate to someone. Or, you continue reading

Financial Secrets in a Relationship

How much do you know about your partner’s financial status? How much does your partner know about yours? Are there things that you don’t tell him or her? Do both continue reading

Every individual has a financial history. Just like every individual has a relationship history, sexual history, and family history. How we approach finances today is influenced by our past experiences and family history. So, when continue reading

Discussing money and finances with your partner is often a very sensitive issue. Conversations around income, spending/budgeting, and debt, etc. can be awkward and uncomfortable to discuss in detail with your partner. Money is a continue reading

Corporal Punishment: Hot Topic in African American Families - Parenting Support Services

“Spare the rod, spoil the child”. If you are familiar with this saying, you are very familiar with the idea of corporal punishment continue reading

Interracial Dating: Hot Topic with African American Women

Are you an African American woman who has dated outside her race? You may have had many responses, reactions, ambivalences and other experiences that were both positive continue reading

When we think about the Strong Black Woman, one of the struggles that plagues this badge of honor is the idea of balancing strength and vulnerability in life and relationships. The old idea of the continue reading

Premarital counseling for same sex couples: Therapy in Philadelphia, Ocean City, Santa Fe, Mechanicsville

While many therapists are “couples counselors” not all couples counselors are trained in all types of couples counseling. Gay and continue reading

Practical Spirituality: Identifying the spiritual element in everyday life

When we think of spirituality, we conjure images of fantastical settings and beings, gilded halls of religious worship containing exotic artifacts, studied and eccentric holy men continue reading

Religion and Spirituality The words religion and spirituality are often used interchangeably, though they are uniquely different things. Spirituality is the pursuit of a relationship and understanding of the world around us as it relates continue reading