Cultural Identity & Belonging

When your identity feels complicated

Living as a mixed-race or multicultural person can mean you’re constantly being read… and misread. You may have felt unseen, pressured to “choose a side”, or like you don’t fully belong anywhere. Sometimes, the hardest part is having to carry the emotional weight just to be understood, even with the people closest to you.

This can create a sense of disconnection, anxiety, and deep loneliness. Many clients describe feeling like they are always code-switching, translating, or explaining themselves, instead of simply being.

A Place Where Every Part Of You Belongs

How Therapy Can Help

  • Making sense of feeling “in between,” even when you’re outwardly doing fine.

  • Healing from cultural erasure, racism, and the subtle accumulation of microaggressions.

  • Navigating family expectations, loyalty binds, and intergenerational trauma.

  • Reducing anxiety, shame, or isolation connected to identity.

  • Building belonging without abandoning parts of yourself.

My Approach

I offer telehealth counseling for adults and teens across Oregon. My work is rooted in creating a space where your whole self can be honored. Yes, all of what makes you you. Without having to leave any part of yourself behind. Here, we resist erasure.

In our sessions, we won’t minimize your experiences. We will hold them with respect, honoring the gifts of your multiple perspectives. Together we’ll explore how your cultural identity shapes your story, and how reclaiming your voice and belonging can lead to healing and empowerment.

What To Expect

I will walk alongside you as we remember your wholeness, reconnect with your strength, and find language and practices that affirm your full self.

You can expect:

  • A space where you don’t have to justify or shrink your identity

  • Validation of your lived experiences at your unique intersections and cultural context

  • Support in building resilience, connection, and self-compassion

“There was a time when I teetered precariously with an awkward foot in each of two worlds - the scientific and the Indigenous. But then I learned to fly. Or at least try. It was the bees that showed me how to move between different flowers - to drink the nectar and gather pollen from both. It is this dance of cross-pollination that can produce a new species of knowledge, a new way of being in the world. After all, there aren't two worlds, there is just this one good green earth.”

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

Next Steps

If you’re seeking thoughtful, depth-oriented therapy and feel aligned with my approach, I invite you to reach out to explore working together.

Let’s begin with a free 15-minute consultation to see if it feels like a good fit.

You don’t get to choose what shaped you, but you do get to choose how it shapes what comes next.