Cultural Stress
Navigating intergenerational cultural differences through therapy in Houston, TX
Feeling conflicted about how to show up in relationship with your family and community without abandoning your desire or boundaries?
Maybe you are a 1st or 2nd generation immigrant navigating the intergenerational cultural expectations. Or you are a BIPOC individual whose ethnic heritage orients toward collectivistic culture over individualistic culture. Your family or community expects you to show up from a place that feels inauthentic to you. You feel like you have to the play the role of “obedient son/daughter”. You are often overextending your self to make your community/family comfortable and pleased with you. Your struggling navigate honoring who you are while wearing a mask to keep the peace.
"Relationships are harmony-disharmony-repair, connection-disconnection-reconnection."— Esther Perel
Cultural Stress looks like:
Identity confusion
People pleasing
Difficulty maintaining boundaries
Conflicting priorities
Feelings of guilt
Masking
Hyper-independent tendencies
Co-dependent relationship tendencies
From confusion to clarity in community
Navigating the cultural expectations of being from a collectivistic community/family while being embedded in a culture that is heavily oriented toward individualism can be disorienting at times. At the end of the day you desire to be in right relationship with your community without abandoning yourself. To get there we will explore the idea of interdependence along with, understand the importance nervous system regulation, and identifying your capacity to be in relationship to your community without abandoning yourself
What will I gain from cultural stress therapy?
Learn
We will explore the important concept of interdependence.
Understand
We will utilize psycho-education to understand your nervous system and how relationships shape it.
Identify
In our time together we will learn to identify how to assess your capacity when in relationship to others.
My Approach
In our session, we will utilize somatic therapies and person centered modalities to help you identify your maintain your boundaries, recognizing when you have capacity to work through relationship conflict.
