This book shines a much-needed light on this world’s current dark night of the soul, and its Inner Light guides us into new life-affirming behaviours and mindsets. The author addresses the human condition from the root up, and encourages new ways of being, seeing, living, and loving that will lead to true and lasting change.

The overarching message of Inner Life Writes is that we all can make a difference and that “unprecedented” doesn’t have to mean bad, only that it is time for a paradigm shift to a more Humane and Just world. 

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“Black feminisms have provided a foundation from which it becomes more possible to speak and write of interconnection―of a spirited life, soul, a natural mystic blowing through the air―and engagement with all of this in therapeutic practice.”

Part thesis, part memoir and part poetry, this book is unlike any other therapeutic text. Psychotherapist and writer Foluke Taylor explores how the centring of Black women’s experiences in therapeutic scholarship allows for greater space―space for wandering, for wondering and for deepening narratives―in every therapeutic relationship. Beginning with the book’s poetic structuring, Taylor rejects the need for a streamlined solution, instead inviting the reader to take a different path through her crucial research―one that is unruly, nonlinear, and celebratory of the richer, fuller narratives allowed for by Black feminisms.

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To address the absence of the exploration of the unconscious experience of privilege within counselling and psychotherapy, the book not only presents an exploration of intersectional difference, but also discusses the deeper unconscious understanding of difference, and how privilege plays a role in the construction of otherness. It does so by utilising material from both within the world of psychotherapy, and from the fields of post-colonial theory, feminist discourse, and other theoretical areas of relevance. The book also offers an exploration and understanding of intersectionality and how this impacts upon our conscious and unconscious exploration of privilege and otherness.

With theoretically underpinned, and inherently practical psychotherapeutic case studies, this book will serve as a guidebook for counsellors and psychotherapists.

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In addition to significant revisions and updates reflecting changes in the field, Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice, Sixth Edition features new chapters on:

• Multicultural counseling competence for minority mental health professionals
• Multicultural evidence–based practice
• Culturally competent assessment
• Poverty and counseling

Filled with numerous examples, authentic vignettes, and practical case studies, Counseling the Culturally Diverse, Sixth Edition remains the best source of real–world multicultural counseling preparation for students and an influential guide for professionals.

“This edition adds the latest hot–button issues in the multicultural world …. Everything you ever wanted to know about multicultural counseling is included in this edition. It continues to be the standard for any mental health professional treating persons from racial/ethnic minority populations …. It is authoritative, illuminating, and clinically compelling.”
Melba Vasquez, PhD, ABPP, Past President, of the American Psychological Association; independent practice, Austin, Texas

“Counseling the Culturally Diverse, Sixth Edition is a phenomenal piece of work that is comprehensive in scope, penetrating in its insights, and pragmatic in the way it teaches the reader how to navigate the pathways of culture.”
Thomas A. Parham, PhD, Vice Chancellor, Student Affairs, University of California, Irvine Distinguished Psychologist, Association of Black Psychologists

“Counseling the Culturally Diverse continues its tradition of defining the field and charting a proactive course for training a new decade of counselors and therapists for culturally competent practice in our increasingly culturally diverse and globally interconnected society. If only one book was to be read in an entire master′s or doctoral program in counseling or psychology, it should be Counseling the Culturally Diverse.”
Joseph G. Ponterotto, PhD, Professor, Fordham University, and practicing multicultural psychologist

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