Working With Boundaries With People From Different Cultures

Duration: 1h 4m 27s

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This conversation will help you reflect and stretch yourself as you think about working with clients from diverse backgrounds and experiences. Jules and her panelists will share thoughts, feelings and experiences of working with clients from different cultural backgrounds around the subject of boundaries. How do you approach boundary work with clients whose background is very different from yours? Are there things to stay aware of when working with clients on boundaries when they come from different cultural backgrounds? This will be a conversation amongst clinicians about things to keep in mind, what these clinicians think about when it comes to boundary work, and ways they have grown over the years.

Akilah Riley-Richardson, MSW, CCTP, is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, a Brainspotting Therapist and Relational Healing Facilitator. She has received training in various areas including Somatic Experiencing, Playback Theatre, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Neuroscience, Compassion Focused Therapy, and Internal Family Systems Therapy.

Hedy Tan, LMFT, is a Master RLT Therapist in private practice who is certified in Sex Addiction (CSAT) and Money and Financial Disorders (AMAT) offered by IITAP. Hedy uses Relational Life Institute’s approach specifically designed for couples She uses this transformative model to effectively support clients with all relationships be it with one’s self, couples, parent-child, peers or work.

Desirae Ysasi, LPC-S, RLT Certified, is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in private practice as well as a board-approved Supervisor for LPC-Associates. Utilizing insight-oriented therapy approaches, she assists clients in examining how their negative thought patterns have influenced their emotions and choices in life. By reframing these thought patterns, her clients report fewer anxious and depressive symptoms as well as increased stability and communication in their relationships. She will provide guidance and feedback designed to both challenge and motivate you to create change in your life.

Her primary areas of focus are: relationship counseling (including non-traditional couples and LGBTQI couples), maternal mental health and therapy for therapists/helping professionals. She is also skilled in helping men and women resolve a variety of lifestyle issues such as: improving work/life balance, coping with daily stressors, navigating parenting struggles, building self-esteem through self-compassion, and eliminating toxic relationships. You can learn more about her work by clicking on the Specialties page.

Sanaa Hyder, LMHC,  is a licensed psychotherapist from New York who works primarily with South Asians and Muslims (both non-practicing and practicing) using various integrated and science-backed approaches. Sanaa’s specialty is in understanding the complexities and the experiences of being “third culture”, a first-generation immigrant and of having a South Asian and Muslim background. Sanaa is deeply interested in multi-cultural identity and in finding a balance between cultures.

Juliane Taylor Shore, LPC, LMFT, SEP (AKA Jules) is a therapist and trainer of therapists in Austin, Texas. She specializes in applying Interpersonal Neurobiology to the healing of trauma and the creation of relational health with clients she sees. She uses her knowledge of the brain and the implicit mind to go decisively to the root of the issue with gentleness and depth. Jules has been a specialist in trauma recovery and in couples counseling for 12 years, and loves to work experientially because that is how to meet and invite shifts in the implicit mind. She wants to help people find the love, connection, and grace they have always longed for, both in themselves and with each other.