While this is not an exhaustive list, here are 10 benefits of going to therapy for children of immigrants >>
1. Therapy can help you navigate your bicultural identity, multiple cultures, and the differing norms, values, and expectations.
2. It can provide a confidential, productive space to vent and work through struggles without fear of your community finding out.
2. It can provide a confidential, productive space to vent and work through struggles without fear of your community finding out.
3. Therapy can help you manage, and heal from, generational and unspoken trauma.
4. You can learn to explore your need and desire for boundaries in your relationships and how to effectively set and hold them in a way that works for you.
4. You can learn to explore your need and desire for boundaries in your relationships and how to effectively set and hold them in a way that works for you.
5. Therapy can help you learn effective communication strategies and skills to have those tough conversations with your family.
6. Working with a therapist can potentially be the ONE relationship where you can safely and effectively talk about yourself and what you want.
6. Working with a therapist can potentially be the ONE relationship where you can safely and effectively talk about yourself and what you want.
7. Therapy can help you unpack how your (past or present) relationship with your parents/caregivers are affecting your current friendships and romantic relationships.
8. Therapy can help you distinguish and navigate between shame and guilt.
8. Therapy can help you distinguish and navigate between shame and guilt.
9. Therapy can help you develop high self-worth, self-efficacy, and self-regulation.
10. It’s the first step in normalizing seeking help and breaking the stigma in our communities!
10. It’s the first step in normalizing seeking help and breaking the stigma in our communities!
