Melisa Matshazi : What Therapy Sees That Families Hide

This week, Melisa joins Part Time Human for a conversation about family therapy, identity, culture, and the systems that quietly shape us. A family psychotherapist, entrepreneur,, and someone whose life has stretched across different countries , she brings both professional insight and personal experience into the room.We talk about family dynamics across cultures, poverty, access to therapy, religion, power structures, African family systems, and the realities therapists witness behind closed doors. We also explore what happens when the lessons you learn professionally begin to challenge the beliefs you grew up with.Melisa opens up about what she has had to unlearn, what she is still processing, and how her experiences across different countries continue to shape the way she sees healing, people, and herself. And we talked about the meaning of 'home'A conversation about family, perspective, identity, and the human side of helping others heal.