Multicultural orientation researcher and couples therapist whose work demonstrates that how therapists engage with cultural identity matters as much as what they do technically.
Dr. Jesse Owen is a Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Denver. His research focuses on psychotherapy processes and outcomes, with particular emphasis on multicultural issues in therapy and the Multicultural Orientation (MCO) framework — an approach that emphasizes therapist cultural humility, genuine curiosity about clients' cultural identities, and explicit attentiveness to how cultural factors shape the therapeutic relationship and its outcomes.
Dr. Owen's empirical work on MCO has been groundbreaking, demonstrating that therapists who approach cultural conversations with greater humility and openness produce meaningfully better outcomes for racially and ethnically diverse clients — findings that have reshaped training curricula across the country. He is also a prolific couples therapy researcher, with studies examining relationship satisfaction, commitment, and the mechanisms of change in couples treatment. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, he has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and trained clinicians nationally in culturally responsive practice.
This week, we revisit the conversation between Dan and Dr. Jesse Owen about what multicultural psychotherapy really is and how to apply the multicultural orientation framework in psychotherapy and cli…
This week, Dan is joined by Dr. Jesse Owen, Dan and Jesse peruse what multicultural psychotherapy really is and how to apply the multicultural orientation framework in psychotherapy and clinical train…
