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Intercultural & Interracial Relationships
Psychodynamic and EFT-informed therapy for couples and individuals navigating cultural difference
When love crosses cultures, conversations can become loaded with unspoken histories, family expectations, and fears of being misunderstood. Therapy offers a space to slow things down, make meaning together, and respond with greater curiosity and emotional clarity, even when difference remains.
Intercultural couples often live at the intersection of external expectations and internalised histories. I offer a space to understand how these pressures shape your relationship and how difference has come to feel difficult, risky, or painful between you.
Alongside my clinical practice, I have developed Seeing Me, Hearing Us: How to Have the Difficult Conversations About Race in Interracial and Intercultural Couples. The workbook extends my therapeutic focus on how cultural difference is lived and negotiated within relationships, offering a structured yet reflective way for partners to explore the unspoken, deepen mutual recognition, and create the emotional safety needed for honest conversations about race and belonging.
Loving across cultural, racial, religious, or linguistic difference can be deeply meaningful and quietly demanding.
You may find yourselves negotiating unspoken rules about family, loyalty, gender roles, religion, race, or belonging. One of you may feel you are constantly adapting or explaining, while the other feels unsure how to respond without getting it wrong. Conversations that matter can become tense, emotionally charged, or avoided altogether.
Working With Difference
Cultural difference does not cause relationship problems on its own.
What causes distress is when difference becomes hard to talk about, easy to misread, or emotionally unsafe to explore.
In intercultural and interracial relationships, partners often carry:
- different emotional languages
- inherited cultural expectations
- unspoken rules about loyalty, belonging, and identity
Therapy helps make these dynamics visible — not to erase difference, but to understand how it lives between you.