Cultural Identity & Mixed-Race Therapy in Oregon

When your identity feels complicated

Living as a mixed-race or multicultural person can bring unique challenges. You may have felt unseen, pressured to “choose a side,” or feel as though you don’t fully belong anywhere. At times, it can feel like parts of yourself are split, erased, or misunderstood by others, sometimes most painfully by family or community.

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

  • Exploring and affirming mixed-race or multicultural identity

  • Healing from experiences of racism or cultural erasure

  • Navigating intergenerational trauma and family expectations

  • Building belonging and self-acceptance in bicultural or multicultural spaces

  • Reducing anxiety, shame, or isolation connected to identity

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

If you’re ready to begin Cultural Identity & Mixed-Race Therapy in Oregon, I’d be honored to walk alongside you.

“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