What is it like to be an African American therapist helping clients work through racial trauma that one is also experiencing?
According to Sherrae Lachhu, LMFT, doing this well involves having the humility and willingness to learn about each client's unique personal and cultural backgrounds.
"All trauma is not the same," Sherrae points out. "I know trauma; I know oppression; I know what it feels like to come from a marginalized community. I don't know how everybody within my community feels, let alone other communities."
In Sherrae's work as a therapist based in Huntersville, North Carolina, she specializes in making therapy accessible to BIPOC individuals. And in this conversation, she also discusses the healing groundwork that therapy can provide for people to understand themselves and pursue meaningful lives that they don't feel the need to escape from.
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