Christian Black Therapy: 7 Benefits of Personalized Therapy

CHRISTIAN BLACK THERAPY: 7 COMMON BENEFITS OF PERSONALIZED THERAPY

by: Tizita Seifu MA, LPC-S | Therapist

CHRISTIAN BLACK THERAPY: OPPORTUNITIES

The Christian, Black diaspora face unique experiences and challenges that can greatly impact mental health.  This makes spiritually and culturally considerate professional counseling a uniquely engaging, healing, and empowering resource for many individuals.  

CHRISTIAN BLACK THERAPY: USEFULNESS & CHALLENGES

In my experience as a Therapist, therapy that is understanding of key aspects of your identity is therapy you will likely experience as more useful and with greater ease on your part.  When this is not present, a common challenge is feeling fatigued by how much is not understood about cultural and racial experiences.  This then delays and burdens the process to benefitting from therapy. 

Working with a Therapist that deeply understands your identity, experience and values can reduce the amount of time and labor necessary to begin to experience therapy as helpful.

Christian Black Therapy: 7 Common Benefits:

1. Cultural Understanding: A therapist who more readily understands your cultural values and experiences can provide tailored support that resonates and engages you in helpful ways. This can help you feel more at ease, understood and supported in your therapeutic journey. 
   
   
   
   
   

2. Addressing Specific Experiences: You likely face specific experiences such as those related to life events, family dynamics, race, or your immigrant experience that require a more aware and inclusive approach to counseling than the historical foundations of therapy. Therapy can offer tools to distinguish and manage these unique experiences and pressures, and enhance your coping strategies.  Finding a Therapist aligned in the key elements of your identity, experience and values can reduce the amount of time and labor necessary to begin to experience therapy as helpful.
   
   
   
   
   

3. Spiritual Empowerment: Therapy can help you explore healthy versus unhealthy relationships with faith, and how this may be helping or hindering your quality of life and ability to achieve your goals. A therapist trained in faith engagement can assist you in processing spiritual hurt, questions, and conflicts.  Christian integrated professional counseling can help you distinguish relationships, beliefs and practices that can further support your mental health, quality of life, goals, and purpose.

4. Distinguishing Perspectives: You may notice that you have different or evolving views on life or mental health than prior generations.  Therapy can provide you a safe environment to explore and define your beliefs in ways that may more fully support your values, mental health, and goals.
   
   
   
   
   

5. Building Resilience: Therapy can equip you with developing skills to develop helpful capacity in the face of adversity.  This can help navigate internal and external challenges in more beneficial ways.  Therapy can also help you gain tools to achieve your goals.
   
   
   
   
   

6. Stigma Navigation: Engaging in therapy can contribute to dismantling the stigma around mental health. Experiencing therapy for yourself, may help you directly distinguish the common myths versus facts of therapy and mental health.  By prioritizing your mental health, you can become a more effective mental health advocate and influence for others.
   
   
   
   
   

7. Personal Growth: Therapy can help you distinguish and pursue  meaningful and valuable growth.  Personal growth that occurs in such personalized therapy can and often does contribute to a more peaceful, powerful or joyful life.

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Engaging topics of Christian faith and culture are optional in our professional counseling services and available where the client has interest.