Multicultural Awareness Individualized Strategies to Build Rapport & Cultural Competency – Lambers Fisher

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Summary

• Do you feel paralyzed when it comes to counseling clients from other ethnicities or backgrounds for fear you’ll say the wrong thing?

• The subjects of race, sexual orientation, religion, and social justice are fraught with anxiety, tension, and silence.

• But glossing over these differences or pretending they don’t play a role in clients’ lives does a lot more harm than good.

• When you ignore crucial aspects of a client’s life, you’re not seeing them in their full humanity.

• And when clients don’t feel seen or heard, they either search out a therapist who does see and hear them... Or they get discouraged and leave therapy altogether.