First, I want to create a safe and welcoming environment for Esperanza. It’s im-portant for me to have rapport with Esperanza, so that she will feel and know that I am not here to judge her. Which that, I hope Esperanza will be willing to express her anxiety, loneliness, rage, and the reasons behind her insomnia with me in counseling. My plans for working with Esperanza will consist collaborating with Esperanza and developing possible plans for her daughter and her, exploring Esperanza cultural and family values so that I can have a better insight about her beliefs and values when we begin to set cul-turally appropriate goals, talk about the positive and negative consequences of divorce, and her attractions to women. The gaps in my knowledge about Esperanza are her cultur-al and family values and the LGBT community. Which is why, during our counseling session, I would ask Esperanza so that she can help me become more familiar so I can implement appropriate techniques on how to serve her. As for, how is my cultural context framing the way I view Esperanza, as her counselor I must create a …show more content…
My strength with working with Esperanza is that I can relate to her when she discloses that she was discriminated by others at a young age. As a Hmong girl, I too was discriminated by other students at my school, which resulted in my lack of self-esteem. This is my strength because I can self-disclose with Esperanza to let her know her know that she is not alone. Another strength I have is my high family and cultural values. Therefore, I can relate to Esperanza because we won’t don’t want to bring shame to our family. Esperanza shared that she feared her family’s and priest’s disapproval and