| Summary: | In their fourth session together, Melba Jean Trinidad Vasquez works with a young African American woman in her late 20s who is experiencing issues with trust and intimacy in dating. Using multicultural therapy as a framework, Vasquez establishes an empathic and supportive rapport with her client and honors the difficulties that African American women encounter in finding suitable partners. Vasquez addresses the client's relationship anxiety and ambivalence about wanting to be in a committed relationship while fearing intimacy. Vasquez suggests that the client adopt a more vulnerable stance in her relationships and reminds her to trust herself to handle whatever comes her way. Vasquez reinforces the need to emotionally connect with someone safe and asserts that, as an African American woman, finding a committed relationship is both challenging and powerful.
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