Group Consultation

 

Unseen:

An Internal Family Systems (IFS) Informed & Decolonizing Consultation Group for Asian American Therapists

“Every person is a world to explore.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Love
 
 

Background

Asian American therapists often bear collective burdens of white supremacy, cross-cultural concerns, and the mental health industrial complex. Too often, these contexts tell us to suppress our needs and personhood, ultimately robbing ourselves and our clients of our unique gifts, power, and capacity for connection.

This is a passion project inspired by my dissertation research on Asian American racial identity, psychology, and psychoanalysis; my clinical experience with 1.5 and 2nd generation Asian American women; my training as an Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapist; and my lived experience as a cishet 2nd generation Taiwanese American woman.

We will use Internal Family Systems (IFS)—an experiential therapeutic approach that assumes we all have wounded parts, protector parts, and an innate healing capacity—to liberate ourselves from collective burdens we have been forced to carry by white supremacy, racial capitalism, and the mental health industrial complex.

Topics will include, but are not limited to: microaggressions and the racism brigade; perfectionism, self-criticism, and shame; legacies of silence; sacrifice, gratitude, unsolicited debts & the American dream; the quest for legibility; hypersexualization, and welcoming grief, rage, & joy.

You may be a good fit for this group if you:

  • Are a mental health professional who identifies as Asian American

  • Long for more authentic and spontaneous ways of working

  • Feel burnt out or stuck in your clinical practice but afraid and unsure of what direction to go in

  • Struggle with self-doubt and confidence in your clinical work

  • Are emotionally exhausted and want to create better boundaries with others and attend to your own emotional life

  • Want to clarify your ideal clients

  • Feel unsure of how to respond to microaggressions

  • Have scarcity wounds that overdetermine your clinical decisions

  • Feel chronically unseen as an Asian American therapist

This group offers:

  • community and a sense of belonging with people who get it without explanation

  • guided in-depth exploration and clarification of your gendered racialized identities

  • a new language for naming gendered racialization and its impact

  • new and authentic ways of relating and communicating assertively

  • potent skills for independent therapeutic work

  • a deeper connection to yourself and others

  • more confidence to take up space and find support in your life

  • an increased sense of ease, courage, compassion, playfulness, freedom, and inner harmony

Five 90-minute sessions

4 to 8 participants

$550 (payment plans available; 2 sliding scale spots)

9/9, 10/14, 11/11, 12/9, 1/13

12pm to 1:30pm ET

For more information and to inquire:

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