BIPOC Therapy in Manhattan, NY
Culturally Attuned Care for People of Color at Resonance Psychology
A Space Where Your Identity Is Honored
You don’t have to compartmentalize who you are. At Resonance Psychology, we honor all parts of your story, including the cultural, racial, and ancestral threads you carry. You’re invited into a space where layers of identity aren’t a burden to explain; they’re the context for true connection and healing.
Perhaps you’re:
Carrying fatigue from navigating microaggressions, imposter syndrome, or code-switching exhaustion
Contending with the weight of expectations from family, community, or heritage
Feeling unseen in mental health spaces that don’t understand your lived experiences and racial stress
Wrestling with grief, disconnection, loss, or systemic trauma
Transitioning through life changes and yearning to belong and thrive
Here, your emotional safety comes first, not as an afterthought, but as a foundation.
Why Therapy Centered on BIPOC Experiences Matters
Our therapeutic space is a safe refuge, and telling your entire story matters. The world is shaped by race, power, history, and culture. For many BIPOC folks, there’s an extra layer of burden: the fear that your pain will be minimized, invalidated, or “explained away.” What if some of these experiences could be unpacked and propel you towards greater resilience and healing?
In BIPOC-affirming therapy, we work to:
Validate and unpack racial trauma, microaggressions, and identity stress
Heal intergenerational wounds and systemic impacts on well-being
Navigate bicultural identity, diaspora grief, or third-culture belonging
Build emotional resilience, self-compassion, and agency
Rebuild connection to your unique values, voice, and strengths
This is not about forcing fixed solutions.
It’s about co-creating a path forward by honoring all parts of yourself.
How We Support Our BIPOC Clients
Dr. Angela Gwak, founder of Resonance Psychology, and her team offer a rare combination of professional expertise and lived cultural attunement. She and the Resonance team listen closely from a place of empathy and understanding, as well as with a trained clinical eye.
Our areas of specialization include:
BIPOC Third Culture Kid (TCK) concerns, especially navigating cross-cultural identity
Anxiety, depression, emotion regulation, grief, loss and life transitions
Multicultural identity stress (racial, systemic, spiritual, gender, sexuality)
Trauma (including intergenerational, vicarious, and complex)
Relationship concerns — familial, romantic, social, professional, in-law dynamics
Pregnancy/postpartum BIPOC mental health
Self-esteem, self-worth, imposter syndrome, and burnout
Stress management, life adjustments, transitions, and organizing overwhelm
We integrate modalities such as:
Multicultural Therapy & Relational Cultural Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) & Mindfulness
Attachment-Based, Psychodynamic, Systems, and Structural Family Therapy
Solution-Focused and Trauma-Informed approaches
In your sessions, we move between insight, grounding skills, narrative exploration, and relational growth, always attuned to your cultural context and emotional rhythm.
What a Healing Partnership Could Look Like
In our work together, you might expect:
To feel seen, not explained, from session one
A collaborative pace: honoring your vulnerability, abilities, and boundaries
Tools for emotional regulation, resilience, and self-compassion
Deep reflection on cultural narratives, family systems, and identity
Shifts in how you relate to yourself, others, and the world
This is more than symptom relief.
It’s a reclamation of your unique voice and a journey toward greater alignment.
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Not unless you want to. While many BIPOC clients find it healing to explore how race, identity, and culture impact their mental health, there's no expectation to center those conversations. This is your space. And you get to decide what matters most.
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Unfortunately, this is a common experience for BIPOC clients. Therapy that lacks cultural awareness can feel invalidating, pathologizing, or even retraumatizing. At Resonance Psychology, we approach therapy with cultural humility and trauma-informed care, so you can begin to rebuild trust in the therapeutic process.
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Yes. You don’t need to be in crisis to benefit from therapy. Whether you're navigating life transitions, identity stress, or simply feeling stuck, therapy can offer clarity, support, and grounding. We hold space for the both/and of life: struggle and strength, joy and grief.
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The therapeutic work here is rooted in the understanding that identity and environment matter. While the foundational practices (like CBT or mindfulness) may be similar to other therapy, we center your cultural context, racialized experiences, and generational narratives from the start.
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While our practice centers culturally responsive care, we welcome clients from all backgrounds who value intentional, relational, and identity-informed therapy. Many of our clients, BIPOC or otherwise, are seeking therapy that’s nuanced, affirming, and socially aware.
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Book your free 15–20 minute consultation to explore how BIPOC therapy can be different, when your identity is honored and your healing is centered uniquely to you.