Therapy for Mixed Identity, Belonging, and Identity Exploration

When you move between cultures, communities, and expectations, it can feel like you belong everywhere and nowhere at the same time. You may question who you are, where you fit, how others see you, or whether you’re “enough” for any one community. Therapy is a place to explore race, culture, gender, sexuality, and family, and to build a steadier sense of self without choosing just one part of who you are.

You might relate if you:

In your communities

• Hold several identities and never feel you can place yourself neatly

• Are “not enough” of one thing and “too much” of another

• Feel like you’re always on the outskirts of the communities you belong to

• Have been told you don’t quite belong, or feel like you have to prove something to the people around you

• Feel like an imposter, or a little out of place, even among your own people

In your family

• Come from a mixed-race family and have felt caught between sides

• Want to reconnect with or reclaim your ancestral roots

• Come from a family of immigrants and feel everything that comes with being 1st or 2nd generation

• Have never been able to call yourself 100% of anything

In your sense of self

• Are questioning or still figuring out your sexuality or gender

• Feel pressure to choose one part of yourself in different rooms

• Have hidden parts of yourself to fit in

therapy for cultural reclamation
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Therapy for identity uncertainty
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therapy for finding belonging

I’m Gina Sacino, MS, LCAT, a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist in Rochester, NY, providing virtual therapy throughout New York State.

Therapy for mixed-race and multicultural women
You may have spent your life translating between worlds and being asked what you are. We make room for all of it, including the parts that don’t fit neatly.

Therapy for cultural reclamation
Reconnecting with your roots can bring joy, grief, and complicated feelings about what was lost. We go at your pace and let the process be yours.

Therapy for feeling like an outsider
You don’t have to prove you belong. We look at where the sense of not being enough came from, and what it would mean to stop auditioning.

Therapy for identity and sexuality exploration
Questioning is a valid place to be, and you don’t need an answer to start. We explore who you are without a deadline.

What we do in session
I’m warm, direct, and relational, with a little humor, and we go at your pace. Together we:

• Make room for every intersection of who you are, race, culture, family, gender, and sexuality, without ranking them

• Explore the parts of you that you learned to hide around other people

• Look at how the comments, the questions, and the “you’re not really one of us” moments have affected you

• Make room for grief, anger, and the guilt that can come with both

• Imagine what it would be like to hold all of this at once, in one body, as yours

What feeling better can look like
You can walk into a room without translating yourself. You no longer feel like you have to earn your place or choose a side. You feel connected to your roots, your communities, and your own sense of self. You belong, and you can hold all of who you are while you do.