Black Women Deserve Therapists Who Look Like Us

How unconscious bias plays a pivotal role in therapy’s effectiveness

Sylene "SylJoe" Joseph
ZORA
Published in
7 min readMar 17, 2021

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Her office was always draped in heavy, dark curtains. The air was musty, perhaps because the emotional support dog frequently napped in the corner.

Where I come from, animals aren’t kept indoors, so the scent of wet dog clinging to the linens…

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