Application for "Owning Your Identity" Mixed Ethnicity/Race processing group

A Process Group for Mixed, Biracial, Bicultural, and Multicultural Individuals

Facilitated by Michele, a clinician with both personal and professional experience navigating the complexity of identity, this group holds space for those who live at the intersection of multiple racial, cultural, and ethnic identities.

Michele, a fourth-generation New Yorker raised in Queens, is of Italian and Puerto Rican heritage. As someone who has experienced both privilege and marginalization due to their perceived identity, Michele understands the unique challenges that come with being mixed—including being seen as "White-passing" in some contexts and "not white" or "not white enough" in others.

Trained in a practice grounded in intersectionality, Michele brings deep passion due to lived experience and expertise in working with biracial, bicultural, and multicultural individuals.

This group explores themes such as the ones below but is not limited to them:

  • Navigating life as a mixed-race or bicultural person

  • The complexity and fluidity of identity

  • Experiences of being "White-passing" or not and what that means 

  • The reduction or erasure of Latinx culture and other cultural and racial identities

  • Coping with daily microaggressions and external misperceptions

  • Exploration of "Not Enough-ness" "not black enough" and "Reduction" "I was only raised with Japanese language, and I don't speak Spanish, so....."  

    The goal will be to create solidarity in shared experiences which will result in healing and perhaps a more confident and integrated identity. 

Group Details

  • Who: Open to individuals 18 years old and older

  • When: Ongoing weekly group

  • Duration: Minimum 12-week commitment, 12 weeks 

    option to re-enroll after the 12 weeks as an ongoing member 

  • Group Size: Limited to 12 participants

  • Cost: $75 per week

    Free intake, followed by 12 sessions with option to re-enroll

    • Sliding scale available upon request- only 5 slots available 

In a world that often demands neat boxes, this group is a space where you don’t have to choose one. It’s a space where your full, complex self is seen, heard, and honored. Together, we’ll unpack identity, build resilience, and find community. Many individuals of mixed ethnicity or race struggle with forming a confident racial or ethnic identity largely due to the fact they are perceived differently across different settings and contexts. This can be a strength, but it can also cause psychological distress and harm. 



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Proof of income will be requested later in the form of pay stubs, tax return, or whatever documentation you're able to provide.

We would rather not do "means testing" however, group therapy is unlike individual therapy in that spots are limited, and this is unfortunately the system we work under- as much as we'd like to change it. Please assess your ability to pay with radical honesty. Thank you! :) 

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We are considering potentially making this group Wednesday at 6PM, instead of Tuesday at 6PM EST. Michele can do either, but may adjust based on group availability. What would work for you?  
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