FOY Wellness and Recovery is a licensed PHP and IOP program in Agoura Hills, California. Our clinical program is developed and overseen by Clinical Program Director Dr. Shannon Dobbs, a licensed clinical psychologist. Culturally Sensitive care is integrated across our clinical programming, ensuring treatment respects each client’s cultural background and identity.
What Is Culturally Sensitive Therapy?
Culturally Sensitive Therapy is an approach in which clinicians actively account for a client’s cultural background, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, and lived experience when providing treatment, rather than applying a single standardized approach to every client. Cultural context shapes how symptoms present, how distress is expressed, and what recovery meaningfully looks like, and clinical research increasingly supports culturally responsive care as improving engagement and outcomes.
How Culturally Sensitive Therapy Works
Clinicians are trained to recognize their own cultural assumptions, ask about and incorporate each client’s specific cultural context into treatment planning, and adapt evidence-based modalities, such as CBT or family therapy, to be relevant and respectful of a client’s cultural framework.
Culturally Sensitive Care at FOY
Cultural sensitivity is not a separate, standalone service at FOY but a lens applied across all clinical programming, individual therapy, group therapy, and family involvement, ensuring each client’s care reflects their specific identity and background.
Populations and Needs Culturally Sensitive Care Addresses
- Clients from diverse racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds
- LGBTQ+ clients
- Clients navigating immigration or first-generation experiences
- Clients whose cultural or family context shapes their relationship to mental health and substance use
- Clients seeking care that respects specific spiritual or religious frameworks
What to Expect
Your intake and ongoing treatment planning will include discussion of your cultural background and identity, and your clinical team will incorporate this context throughout individual and group treatment.
FAQs
Will my specific cultural or religious background be discussed in treatment?
Yes, your clinical team incorporates your cultural and personal context into your individualized treatment plan.
Is Culturally Sensitive Therapy a separate program from other clinical services?
No, it is an approach integrated across all clinical programming rather than a standalone service.
Is this approach relevant for LGBTQ+ clients specifically?
Yes, culturally sensitive and identity-affirming care includes attention to sexual orientation and gender identity as part of a client’s full context.
Will my family’s cultural views on mental health or addiction be considered?
Yes, family and cultural context around mental health and substance use is an important part of treatment planning discussions.
Does Culturally Sensitive Therapy change which specific therapy modalities I receive?
Not necessarily; it typically shapes how established modalities like CBT or family therapy are adapted and delivered, rather than replacing them.
Can I request a clinician with a specific background or specialization?
Discuss preferences with our admissions team, and we will do our best to accommodate based on current clinical team availability.
Is culturally responsive care evidence-based?
Research on culturally responsive and adapted treatment approaches shows improved engagement and outcomes compared to non-adapted standard care in many populations.
Will religious or spiritual beliefs be respected in treatment?
Yes, your clinical team incorporates your spiritual and religious context as relevant to your individualized treatment plan.
Is this covered by insurance?
Culturally sensitive care is integrated into FOY’s overall PHP and IOP clinical programming, billed as a level of care rather than a separate service. Contact our admissions team about your specific plan.
Take the First Step
Call (805) 659-8429 or visit foywellnessandrecovery.com/contact for a free confidential assessment. We are in-network with Blue Shield, Cigna, and TRICARE through TriWest, and accept most other major PPO plans, including Anthem, Aetna, Multiplan, HMC HealthWorks, and Blue Cross Blue Shield, on an out-of-network basis.