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Why Latinos can benefit from a culturally competent therapist, and how to find one
The primary time Jacqueline Garcia sought remedy, she was in school. She’d lived in Tijuana till she was 12, and she or he had struggled with the transition when her household immigrated to the USA.
She signed up for an preliminary remedy session with a psychological well being skilled however by no means made a second appointment. She mentioned she didn’t really feel like her white therapist understood or validated her experiences.
“I felt a bit bit disillusioned, however that have helped me to know that I wanted to seek out somebody I might really feel comfy with,” Garcia instructed The Instances in Spanish.
5 years handed earlier than Garcia was able to seek for a therapist once more. She wished to work with a bilingual psychological well being skilled who may perceive her childhood and its results on her young-adult life.
With the brand new therapist, “I may unravel myself very well. In that first session, I used to be comfy sufficient to clarify my emotions that I had buried inside me for thus lengthy,” mentioned Garcia, now a Los Angeles-based medical social employee.
“Having somebody who just isn’t culturally competent and/or knowledgeable can result in experiencing microaggressions, feeling misunderstood and even perpetuating oppressive behaviors,” mentioned Lydiana Garcia (who’s not associated to Jacqueline Garcia), a Los Angeles-based psychologist.
A culturally competent psychological well being skilled, against this, goals to be delicate to and perceive your cultural background. That features your values, race and spiritual or religious beliefs.
A therapist with this sort of coaching lets you give attention to speaking about your experiences and the way you’re feeling with out having to clarify the nuances of your loved ones dynamic or upbringing.
Listed below are some suggestions for Latinos searching for a culturally competent therapist from Lydiana Garcia; Katheryn Perez, a licensed marriage and household therapist in Burbank; and Angelica Tello, assistant professor of counseling on the College of Houston-Clear Lake.
Why it’s essential
There may be usually “disgrace and guilt that may come from wanting to start out remedy and your Latino household not supporting that,” Perez mentioned.
That disgrace, she mentioned, comes from an inside barrier of believing psychological well being companies are “solo para los locos” — just for loopy folks.
A culturally competent skilled, Perez mentioned, would perceive why it was so troublesome so that you can search assist in the primary place.
“It actually helps construct that relationship between the consumer and the therapist. The consumer normally feels extra comfy and secure, which helps them with the therapeutic course of,” she mentioned.
Ask questions
To establish whether or not a psychological well being skilled will suit your wants, Perez advises that you just conduct a brief interview. Ask questions resembling:
- What expertise do you have got with my particular tradition or background?
- Do you perceive the values and beliefs related to the Latino household and what which means?
- Have you ever had purchasers of various cultural backgrounds?
- Have you ever had a Latino consumer earlier than?
- What’s your understanding of how white privilege and oppression have an effect on folks of coloration?
When you really feel extra comfy expressing your ideas and emotions in Spanish, search for a bilingual therapist.
Working with tradition in thoughts
Tello and Lydiana Garcia each mentioned that when purchasers go to remedy, they could not get the prospect to debate their cultural experiences, the intersections of identities or how systemic marginalization impacts psychological well being. To Tello, a professor and researcher of psychological well being, that displays the psychological well being area’s lingering “white, Western … and really individualistic” perspective.
“Figuring out issues from an individualistic perspective with out considering methods of oppression, results of colonialism, generational trauma and plenty of [related issues] tends in charge the person for his or her present circumstances and at instances prescribe therapy that’s not made for people of coloration,” Garcia mentioned.
To be culturally competent, Tello mentioned, is to take the time to get to know the consumer.
For instance, she mentioned, a whole lot of Latinx purchasers have a robust religious or spiritual connection, in order that’s one thing that may be included into the therapeutic course of.
Usually, clinicians are fast to establish the psychological well being concern and remedy it with out understanding the consumer’s cultural values, she added.
She does a whole lot of work with first-generation school college students, and she or he mentioned she emphasizes their strengths, resembling their capability to navigate unfamiliar social areas at college or at work.
Tello noticed that lots of people who’re first-generation immigrants or the primary of their households to go to school “have had these fixed messages that we’re lower than, othered, or one thing is completely different about us.” Her recommendation is to “acknowledge that you’ve got cultural values that others could not have that push you ahead within the completely different areas of your life.”
Tello prefers the phrase “culturally affirming” over “culturally competent.” “Competent” can indicate a therapist has reached a sure degree of data and talent, she defined, however a culturally affirming one acknowledges that there isn’t a one-size-fits-all mannequin in relation to cultural influences. Others favor “culturally delicate” or “culturally responsive.”
Such therapists take into account a wider vary of things — together with socioeconomic standing, technology or LGBTQ id — and lift these matters in discussions with their purchasers.
Psychological well being directories
Not everybody can have the means to buy round for a culturally competent therapist, Perez mentioned, however there are alternatives on the market. Excessive schoolers, she mentioned, can attain out to a college counselor or ask a instructor to assist establish acceptable psychological well being help. Faculties have psychological well being facilities on campus, and native clinics provide psychological well being companies.
Additionally: Ask personal observe therapists or nonprofit clinics whether or not they provide remedy periods priced on a “sliding scale.” This implies the payment for the service relies on an individual’s capability to pay. The therapists within the Latinx Therapists Motion Community decide to offering psychological well being companies for these in want on a sliding scale for a most of 12 periods. Different directories will help you seek for therapists who provide sliding-scale charges.
Zoe Saldaña accepts the award for best supporting actress in a motion picture at the Golden Globes Sunday night for her role in the film Emilia Pérez.
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Demi Moore, Zoe Saldaña, Kieran Culkin and Adrien Brody all took home awards Sunday night at the 82nd Golden Globes.
Comedian Nikki Glaser hosted the event in Beverly Hills, California.
The queer musical-thriller Emilia Pérez led the night in wins from the film categories, taking home four awards of their ten nominations, including a supporting actress award for Saldaña and the Golden Globe for best motion picture, musical or comedy. The Brutalist ended the night with three awards, including the Golden Globe for best motion picture, drama, and a best actor win for star Adrien Brody. On the television side, FX’s Shōgun took home four awards, winning in every category the show was nominated for, including acting awards for stars Hiroyuki Sanada, Anna Sawai and Tadanobu Asano. Hacks and Baby Reindeer also took home two awards apiece.
This year’s ceremony comes after years of Golden Globes turmoil: In 2021, the Los Angeles Times reported that there were no Black members in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), which founded the awards in 1944. NBC cancelled the 2022 awards telecast and studios and stars boycotted the ceremony in protest. Longtime Globes producer Dick Clark Productions and Eldridge Industries, a holding company, acquired the awards in 2023. (Dick Clark Productions is owned, in part, by Penske Media Corporation, which publishes a number of outlets including Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and Rolling Stone.) An expanded voting body of 334 entertainment journalists from around the world now vote on the awards.
Below are 2025 Golden Globes nominees, with winners marked in bold.
Best motion picture, drama
Winner: The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nickel Boys
September 5
Best motion picture, musical or comedy
Winner: Emilia Pérez
Anora
Challengers
A Real Pain
The Substance
Wicked
Best motion picture, animated
Winner: Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Moana 2
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
Best motion picture, non-English language
Winner: Emilia Pérez
All We Imagine as Light
The Girl With the Needle
I’m Still Here
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Vermiglio
Best director, motion picture
Winner: Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
Sean Baker, Anora
Edward Berger, Conclave
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Payal Kapadia, All We Imagine as Light
Best screenplay, motion picture
Winner: Peter Straughan, Conclave
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Best actress in a motion picture, drama
Winner: Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
Pamela Anderson, The Last Showgirl
Angelina Jolie, Maria
Nicole Kidman, Babygirl
Tilda Swinton, The Room Next Door
Kate Winslet, Lee
Best actor in a motion picture, drama
Winner: Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Daniel Craig, Queer
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
Best actress in a motion picture, musical or comedy
Winner: Demi Moore, The Substance
Amy Adams, Nightbitch
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison, Anora
Zendaya, Challengers
Demi Moore accepts the award for best actress in a musical or comedy film for her role as Elisabeth Sparkle in The Substance.
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Best actress in a supporting role in any motion picture
Winner: Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez
Ariana Grande, Wicked
Selena Gomez, Emilia Pérez
Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
Margaret Qualley, The Substance
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Best actor in a supporting role in any motion picture
Winner: Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Yura Borisov, Anora
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
Denzel Washington, Gladiator II
Best actor in a motion picture, musical or comedy
Winner: Sebastian Stan, A Different Man
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Hugh Grant, Heretic
Gabriel LaBelle, Saturday Night
Jesse Plemons, Kinds of Kindness
Glen Powell, Hit Man
Best original score, motion picture
Winner: Challengers
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
The Wild Robot
Best original song, motion picture
Winner: Emilia Pérez – “El Mal”
The Last Showgirl – “Beautiful That Way”
Challengers – “Compress/Repress”
Better Man – “Forbidden Road”
The Wild Robot — “Kiss the Sky”
Emilia Pérez – “Mi Camino”
Cinematic and box office achievement
Winner: Wicked
Alien: Romulus
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Deadpool & Wolverine
Gladiator 2
Inside Out 2
Twisters
The Wild Robot
Wicked director Jon M. Chu accepts the Golden Globe award for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement.
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On the TV side
Best television series, drama
Winner: Shōgun
The Day of the Jackal
The Diplomat
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Slow Horses
Squid Game
Best television series, musical or comedy
Winner: Hacks
Abbott Elementary
Only Murders in the Building
Nobody Wants This
The Bear
The Gentlemen
Best limited series, anthology series or motion picture made for television
Winner: Baby Reindeer
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Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
The Penguin
Ripley
True Detective: Night Country
Best actor in a television series, drama
Winner: Hiroyuki Sanada, Shōgun
Donald Glover, Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Jake Gyllenhaal, Presumed Innocent
Gary Oldman, Slow Horses
Eddie Redmayne, The Day of the Jackal
Billy Bob Thornton, Landman
Best actress in a television series, drama
Winner: Anna Sawai, Shōgun
Kathy Bates, Matlock
Emma D’Arcy, House of the Dragon
Maya Erskine, Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Keira Knightley, Black Doves
Keri Russell, The Diplomat
Best actor in a limited series, anthology series or motion picture made for television
Winner: Colin Farrell, The Penguin
Richard Gadd, Baby Reindeer
Kevin Kline, Disclaimer
Cooper Koch, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Ewan McGregor, A Gentleman in Moscow
Andrew Scott, Ripley
Best actress in a limited series, anthology series or motion picture made for television
Winner: Jodie Foster, True Detective: Night Country
Cate Blanchett, Disclaimer
Cristin Milioti, The Penguin
Sofía Vergara, Griselda
Naomi Watts, Feud: Capote vs. the Swans
Kate Winslet, The Regime
Best actress in a television series, musical or comedy
Winner: Jean Smart, Hacks
Kristen Bell, Nobody Wants This
Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary
Ayo Edebiri, The Bear
Selena Gomez, Only Murders in the Building
Kathryn Hahn, Agatha All Along
Best actor in a television series, musical or comedy
Winner: Jeremy Allen White, The Bear
Adam Brody, Nobody Wants This
Ted Danson, A Man on the Inside
Steve Martin, Only Murders in the Building
Jason Segel, Shrinking
Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building
Best actress in a supporting role in a TV series
Winner: Jessica Gunning, Baby Reindeer
Liza Colón-Zayas, The Bear
Hannah Einbinder, Hacks
Dakota Fanning, Ripley
Allison Janney, The Diplomat
Kali Reis, True Detective: Night Country
Best actor in a supporting role in a TV series
Winner: Tadanobu Asano, Shōgun
Javier Bardem, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Harrison Ford, Shrinking
Jack Lowden, Slow Horses
Diego Luna, La Máquina
Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear
Best performance in stand-up comedy on television
Winner: Ali Wong, Single Lady
Jamie Foxx, What Had Happened Was
Nikki Glaser, Someday You’ll Die
Seth Meyers, Dad Man Walking
Adam Sandler, Love You
Ramy Youssef, More Feelings
Aubrey Plaza didn’t join the ranks of numerous celebrities at the Golden Globes Sunday night … skipping the ceremony two days after her husband passed away.
Numerous celebrities packed the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills for the 82nd iteration of the ceremony … but, Aubrey wasn’t among them — and, it’s pretty clear why.
Plaza was originally scheduled to present an award … though it’s unclear which one or who filled in for her.
We broke the story … police and fire responded to a Los Angeles-area home at 10:30 AM on Friday after an assistant discovered Baena dead.
Law enforcement has ruled the death a suicide.
Baena was known for directing “Life After Beth” and “Horse Girl” … and, he co-wrote the classic comedy “I Heart Hucakbees.”
Actress Molly Shannon paid tribute to Baena Sunday … sharing a series of photos of them together captioned with a simple “💔” emoji.
Also worth noting … Baena was mentioned at the Golden Globes — after “The Brutalist” director Brady Corbet brought him up during one of his acceptance speeches.
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Baena and Plaza married in 2021 … and, Aubrey described the lowkey affair on an episode of “The Drew Barrymore Show.”
We’ve reached out to Aubrey’s team about her decision to skip the Globes … so far, no word back.
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In the movie “The Substance,” Demi Moore plays an entertainer in her 50s so intent on hanging onto stardom that she signs up to take a potion that will restore her youth, but at a horrific price.
“This is more joyous,” Ms. Moore said of the beautification process leading up to W Magazine’s Golden Globes party held on Saturday evening, the night before the ceremony, in a top floor suite of the Chateau Marmont hotel in West Hollywood.
She was decked out in a black and white polka-dot dress from Nina Ricci as she stood in a tented area where the smell of cigarette smoke was surprisingly strong and household-name celebrities and fellow Globe nominees were everywhere.
The party, co-hosted by W’s Magazine’s editor in chief Sara Moonves, and its editor at large, Lynn Hirschberg, was celebrating the magazine’s annual Best Performances issue, and the walls were covered with enlarged photographs of the featured celebrities.
On one side of the room, the real-life Nicole Kidman stood underneath a giant image of the actor Daniel Craig, nominated for a Globe for his role in the movie “Queer.” On the other side, the real-life Mr. Craig, in a pair of tinted glasses, a black shirt and wide trousers, stood beneath a giant image of Ms. Kidman, who was nominated for her part in the film “Babygirl.”
“Not a bad year,” someone said to Ms. Kidman as she made her way through the crowd with her daughter Sunday Rose Kidman-Urban.
“Not a bad year, indeed,” Ms. Kidman said as a DJ played Blondie’s Rapture while Sabrina Carpenter and Cynthia Erivo shimmied by.
Did Ms. Erivo, who is up for a Globe for the film “Wicked,” have an outfit picked out for the next evening?
Of course she did.
“LV,” she said, by which she meant Louis Vuitton. Nicolas Ghesquière, the artistic director women’s collections at the brand, happened to be out on the terrace, a few yards from Ms. Moore and within spitting distance of Angelina Jolie, a nominee for her performance in the film “Maria,” in which she plays the opera diva Maria Callas.
She seemed to be the only attendee who had a handler stopping photographers from taking pictures of her. But a moratorium on her moratorium took place when Ms. Moonves ambled over to say hello and to politely make it clear that, for history’s sake, the moment would be captured.
Kevin Mazur, a celebrity photographer for Getty Images, raced through the crowd with his camera. The pop stars Charli XCX and Ms. Carpenter huddled together with the model and actress Cara Delevingne.
By 10 p.m., the place was so crowded that the designer Christian Louboutin realized he was going to have to leave the penthouse suite for his room elsewhere in the hotel.
But only for a moment.
“I have to pee!” he said.
“You can get in but you can’t get out,” said Pamela Anderson, who was by the door, hoping to make an exit.
And who could blame her?
After all, Ms. Anderson is featured in the magazine’s issue and is nominated for a Globe for her role in the film “The Last Showgirl.”
Clearly, she had a full weekend ahead of her, although so did the celebrity stylist Law Roach, who seemed to have no interest in leaving.
What was his client Zendaya, nominated for the movie “Challengers,” wearing to the awards the next evening?
“Vuitton,” he said, adding that the jewelry would be Bulgari and that the whole look would be inspired by Joyce Bryant, the glamorous Black singer of the 1940s and ’50s who broke racial barriers in nightclubs.
A few feet away, Eddie Redmayne, nominated for his role in the television series, “The Day of the Jackal,” was hanging out with Andrew Garfield, who is scheduled to present at the Globes.
Colman Domingo, nominated for his part in the movie “Sing Sing,” mingled with Tilda Swinton, nominated for her role in the film “The Room Next Door,” and then headed to the dance floor around the time that DJ Ross One began pumping Shannon’s “Let the Music Play.”
Around 11:30 p.m., the party was still going strong. Waiters paraded around the room with chocolate truffles and French fries.
Kevin Bacon, with his wife, Kyra Sedgwick, was by one of the sofas inside the suite wearing a blazer and a vintage Iron Maiden T-shirt. It was one of only a few outfits not selected by a stylist.
“My son got it for me for Christmas,” he said.
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