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What You Can Do to Pursue Balanced Cultural Identity

Hello, this is Tatsuya Arakawa, a licensed mental health therapist (LMFT). On the previous blog, I discussed cultural identity and how it can affect your mental health wellbeing. This time, I would like to continue to discuss cultural identity especially how you could maintain/strengthen your cultural identity. By doing so, it can not only help […]

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Cultural Identity and Mental Health

Hello, this is Tatsuya Arakawa, a licensed mental health therapist (LMFT). Thank you so much for reading my blog. I would love to provide accurate information about mental health here. In this blog, I would like to talk about cultural identity and how it can affect mental health issues. First, what is cultural identity? I […]

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The difference between therapist listening and friends/significant others listening

Hello, thank you so much for reading this blog. Here, I would love to present correct information as there is so much misinformation out there especially on the internet. In this blog, I would like to clarify the difference between therapist listening to clients and friends/significant others listening as people get confused often. As discussed […]

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What is therapy?

Hello, Thank you so much for visiting my blog. Here, my intention and hope are that you will educate yourself with the right information as there is so much information online that you should not trust, quite frankly. As the first blog, I would like to talk about what exactly is therapy. Often times when […]

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