The Difficulty Finding a Therapist as an Interracial Couple

An interracial couple’s journey to find a competent, unbiased, baggage-free therapist only highlights how much harder it is for Black people to find mental health help

Cherie Berkley
ZORA
Published in
6 min readAug 28, 2020

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Interracial couple walking through a door in a pink wall, holding hands.
Photo: Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images

My mother had a theory about therapists. She surmised they go into the profession…

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Cherie Berkley
ZORA
Writer for

Cherie Berkley is an Atlanta-based multimedia journalist. She specializes in health and lifestyle topics. She is a foodie and enjoys exotic travel.