Abey Muthoni Wachira, PhD, LCP

Culturally Sensitive Therapy

My treatment approach is integrative, with primary roots in relational-cultural, person-centered, and narrative therapy approaches. In therapy with clients, there is a strong emphasis on empowerment, liberation, honoring clients’ cultural worldview and subjective reality, consideration of sociocultural and sociopolitical influences, capitalization of strengths and supportive resources, using the therapeutic relationship to facilitate corrective experiences, as well as collaborating with clients to identify goals and action steps that will promote improved overall well-being. My clinical specialty areas include Black diaspora issues, immigrant and international student issues, racial and ethnic minority issues, intercultural issues, identity exploration, life transition and adjustment concerns, family of origin and relationship concerns, faith/spirituality, trauma, grief and loss, and academic and job-related concerns. I am also passionate about cultural diversity issues and strive to learn and put into practice culturally-responsive ways that I can best support clients as they explore their intersecting cultural identities and related systems of power and oppression.