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Dr. Root's therapeutic orientations blend multicultural sensitivities with feminist perspectives. This means that she helps people strengthen or find their own voice and validate their experiences, taking into account historical events that have affected their family, their ethnic or racial group, gendered experience, or way of belonging and identifying in this world. She questions assumptions that are very old or the source of restriction or unhappiness. Sometimes it is necessary to examine early racial or ethnic experiences as they intersect with learning about gender and privilege through money, skin color, language, and so forth. These experiences inform identity and the presentation or hiding of self. Sometimes Dr. Root uses a person's reaction to her "Bill of Rights" to open these conversations. For persons from multiracial families or of biracial heritage, therapy becomes a forum to connect certain suspected ways of being disenfranchised or oppressed within their own families, groups with whom they identify, or institutional policies. Conversely, this conversation takes place within the generation's attitudes toward racial issues and mixed-race people and their families. These hurts, invisibilities, misidentifications, and privileges become a rich source of examining ways of coping and the costs of identifying certain ways in the world. Often therapy is comprised solely of talking. It may include recommended reading and other forms of homework to direct the work outside of the therapy hour. Ultimately, this self-education is used to make conscious decisions to act in ways that feel more congruent with self and constructive. Further Resources and Client Handouts |
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