Cultural empowerment is an embedded core component of the therapeutic process
• Goal: Clients can creates successful experience and cultural empowerment
• To eliminate stressors that are inhibiting clients to better understand systems and dynamics
helping them to develop the requisite skill
• Alleviate some of the symptoms of anxiety, frustration, depression, helplessness and
hopelessness
• Developing skills to deal with the “isms,” such as racism, sexism, classism and other forms of
discrimination
• Assisting and teaching clients how to integrate existing skill with newly learned skill to
effectively access resources within the larger community