Working Within Diversity

Myira Khan invites therapists to examine their own identities and life experiences, and to consider how these shape the relationships they form with clients. Working across cultural lines in a counselling or therapy setting, she argues, begins with this kind of honest self-scrutiny.

The author sets out a model of anti-oppressive practice and explores core ideas such as power, privilege and cultural humility. She also looks at concrete ways practitioners can dismantle the obstacles that keep people from accessing counselling and therapy.

Race, ethnicity and faith receive particular attention, and the book considers how overlapping identities add further layers to clinical work.

Workbook-style sections prompt self-reflection and encourage readers to test new approaches within their own therapeutic practice. Practical application runs throughout, with the aim of showing what cross-cultural work actually looks like in sessions.