In The Betweenness
Workshop (Virtual)
A Workshop for Therapists Working with First-Generation Asian & South Asians Born or Raised in the U.S. Led by Priti Doshi, JD, LP.
Therapists from all orientations, experience level and racial and cultural backgrounds welcomed.
In The Betweenness
Workshop (Virtual)
A Workshop for Therapists Working with First-Generation Asian & South Asians Born or Raised in the U.S. Led by Priti Doshi, JD, LP.
Therapists from all orientations, experience level and racial and cultural backgrounds welcomed.
In The Betweenness
Workshop (Virtual)
A Workshop for Therapists Working with First-Generation Asian & South Asians Born or Raised in the U.S. Led by Priti Doshi, JD, LP.
Therapists from all orientations, experience level and racial and cultural backgrounds welcomed.
What Inspired this Workshop
What Inspired this Workshop
Since 2020, I've seen more Asian and South Asian American patients come to therapy to talk about racism, othering, and the exhausting work of living between two cultures that both reject you in different ways.
This workshop grew from years of asking: How do we help patients who've built their entire identity around being the "model minority"? What does it mean to work in the space between cultures (the betweenness) where so much of the real therapeutic work happens?
Since 2020, I've seen more Asian and South Asian American patients come to therapy to talk about racism, othering, and the exhausting work of living between two cultures that both reject you in different ways.
This workshop grew from years of asking: How do we help patients who've built their entire identity around being the "model minority"? What does it mean to work in the space between cultures (the betweenness) where so much of the real therapeutic work happens?
Speaker Bio
Speaker Bio
Priti Doshi, JD, LP is a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City, specializing in work with first-generation Asian and South Asian Americans.
Trained in Attachment-Focused EMDR through the Parnell Institute, Priti works from a relational, psychodynamic, trauma-informed lens. Her approach addresses the complex layers of bicultural, intergenerational, and racialized trauma that often hide beneath the "perfect patient" presentation.
Priti Doshi, JD, LP is a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City, specializing in work with first-generation Asian and South Asian Americans.
Trained in Attachment-Focused EMDR through the Parnell Institute, Priti works from a relational, psychodynamic, trauma-informed lens. Her approach addresses the complex layers of bicultural, intergenerational, and racialized trauma that often hide beneath the "perfect patient" presentation.
Priti Doshi, JD, LP is a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City, specializing in work with first-generation Asian and South Asian Americans.
Trained in Attachment-Focused EMDR through the Parnell Institute, Priti works from a relational, psychodynamic, trauma-informed lens. Her approach addresses the complex layers of bicultural, intergenerational, and racialized trauma that often hide beneath the "perfect patient" presentation.
Who This Is For
Who This Is For
Therapists and counselors working with first-generation Asian and South Asian patients who feel caught between cultures; those who have built their identity around being the "model minority" at the cost of a cohesive sense of self.
Therapists from all orientations, experience level and racial and cultural backgrounds welcomed.
Therapists and counselors working with first-generation Asian and South Asian patients who feel caught between cultures; those who have built their identity around being the "model minority" at the cost of a cohesive sense of self.
Therapists from all orientations, experience level and racial and cultural backgrounds welcomed.
What You'll Walk Away With
1
The ability to recognize the "model minority" mask
Identify when perfectionism and compliance are concealing deeper relational and racialized trauma in your Asian American patients.
2
Understanding of bicultural schisms
How clashing East vs. West family systems create the "not Asian enough, not American enough" split that leads to CPTSD.
3
Trauma-informed approaches you can use immediately
Dissociation work, Internal Family Systems, and EMDR for helping patients integrate fragmented self-states and heal from bicultural trauma.
What We'll Cover
What We'll Cover
Part 1: East vs. West (30 min)
Understanding how hierarchical Asian family systems clash with American individualism, and why your patients are walking a bicultural tightrope.
Part 1: East vs. West (30 min)
Understanding how hierarchical Asian family systems clash with American individualism, and why your patients are walking a bicultural tightrope.
Part 2: Treatment Challenges (30 min)
The double-barreled cultural trauma: pressure to be the "good Asian kid" at home while facing racialized trauma in American society. Why many of these patients suffer from CPTSD.
Part 2: Treatment Challenges (30 min)
The double-barreled cultural trauma: pressure to be the "good Asian kid" at home while facing racialized trauma in American society. Why many of these patients suffer from CPTSD.
Break
15 minutes
Break
15 minutes
Part 3: Therapeutic Action (30 min)
Trauma-informed approaches that work: dissociation work, Internal Family Systems, and EMDR for helping patients heal fragmented self-states.
Part 3: Therapeutic Action (30 min)
Trauma-informed approaches that work: dissociation work, Internal Family Systems, and EMDR for helping patients heal fragmented self-states.
Q&A
15 minutes
Q&A
15 minutes
Tickets
Reserve Your Spot
Date: Saturday, January 17th, 2026
Time: 12pm-2pm EST
Event is held virtually on Zoom
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pdoshipsyche@gmail.com
Phone
(646) 825-1239