consultation on AAPI clients

Our graduate programs don’t equip us to work effectively with different cultural groups, this can create misunderstandings and us missing the greater context of how our clients take up space in this world. Oftentimes I hear from AAPI clients an openness to work with non-AAPI providers but also experiences of feeling burnt by western individual concepts that are being misplaced on them without providers potentially even realizing.

I provide consultations for fellow providers who are wanting consultations surrounding working with AAPI folks and feeling stuck on how to more effectively work with this population including common themes such as:

• shame

• collectivist mentality

• family of origin/intergenerational trauma

• perfectionism/fear of failure