What is your own unique social location? What elements of who you are have placed you in the position to experience the stereotyping, prejudice, or discrimination or stereotyping that are present and active in society? Consider issues of color, race, ethnicity, social class, educational level, gender, ability status, sexual orientation, and regional identity, as well as any other factors that might play a role in your personal social location. As you consider your unique social location, how do the privileges and challenges presented by your social location impact your work with clients? What particular sensitivities and insights do you have due to your social location? In what ways does your social location enhance or deter your ability to feel empathy for others?

ABOUT MYSELF to help with the answer.

I am a 41-year-old, white female, I identify as a female and am heterosexual, I believe in a higher power and would consider myself a methodist, I am a middle-class single mother of 3 children, live in Maryland (USA), I have a bachelors in psychology and am 3 credits shy of completing my masters in clinical mental health, and I am currently the program coordinator for a substance abuse and mental health facility.

My skin tone is on the darker side of olive skin tone, and can relate to you when you mentioned that people have asked you where you are really from. I get very dark in the summer time and I also have been told that my eyes resemble a bit of an Asian look. I am asked quite frequently what my nationality is and some find it hard to believe when I say, "Nothing special, I am kind of a mut." My nickname since I was a little girl is Pocoahantis. Can you help tailor this answer with the above known?