I find that a Culturally centered approach to Counselling enriches the therapeutic alliance in a way that builds trust, resonance, communication and connection like nothing else. It can encompass so much and facilitates empathy and co-regulation, that enriches humility and transformation beautifully.

Culture is not just what colour your skin may be or what country you come from. It is that, but it is so much more. The things that bind people to community and belonging is hugely influential to people’s wellbeing, but so is their capacity to individuate and express their autonomy and self-determination, even when guided and strongly linked to a cultural collective.