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The one where you’re asked to choose a flag
Emma and Nicole speak with mixed British-Japanese artist and counsellor, Denise Devenish. She works primarily with musicians and creatives having grown up in a family steeped in the music industry.
She is the daughter of Kishi Yamamoto and Adrian Sherwood of On-U Sound fame and was surrounded by around iconic artists including Lee Scratch Perry, Ari Up and Bim Sherman.
We discuss how psychotherapy has historically been a white, middle-class practice, the importance of cultural competency within therapy, what it's like to name and explore your own experience and discomfort as a therapist and the responsibility one feels to take care of one's many cultures and heritages.
Buy our book, The Half of It: Exploring the Mixed Race Experience
Emma Slade Edmondson: https://www.instagram.com/emsladedmondson/
Nicole Ocran: https://www.instagram.com/nicoleocran/
Mixed Up: https://www.instagram.com/mixedup.podcast
Denise Devenish: https://www.instagram.com/denise.devenish/
Website: https://www.mixedup.co.uk/
Substack: https://mixeduppod.substack.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mixedup.podcast
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By Nicole Ocran and Emma Slade Edmondson
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The one where you’re asked to choose a flag
Emma and Nicole speak with mixed British-Japanese artist and counsellor, Denise Devenish. She works primarily with musicians and creatives having grown up in a family steeped in the music industry.
She is the daughter of Kishi Yamamoto and Adrian Sherwood of On-U Sound fame and was surrounded by around iconic artists including Lee Scratch Perry, Ari Up and Bim Sherman.
We discuss how psychotherapy has historically been a white, middle-class practice, the importance of cultural competency within therapy, what it's like to name and explore your own experience and discomfort as a therapist and the responsibility one feels to take care of one's many cultures and heritages.
Buy our book, The Half of It: Exploring the Mixed Race Experience
Emma Slade Edmondson: https://www.instagram.com/emsladedmondson/
Nicole Ocran: https://www.instagram.com/nicoleocran/
Mixed Up: https://www.instagram.com/mixedup.podcast
Denise Devenish: https://www.instagram.com/denise.devenish/
Website: https://www.mixedup.co.uk/
Substack: https://mixeduppod.substack.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mixedup.podcast
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