From the life experience, the factors that dominate and define the personality of Ursula Kodjoe include cultural diversity and professionalism as well as strong family orientation. Now, as a sanctioned psychologist and as a mother to actor Boris Kodjoe, it not only has a professional impact, but a family and community impact as well.
Early Life
Ursula comes from Germany and she emphasizes the high importance of education and cultural background which were inherent in her family. She grew up being curious with the behavior of people and with a dream to bring positive change to other people’s lives.
She was born in the post-war Germany and was able compassion and tolerance of human pain which was later reflected in her occupation. Her early years multicultural transactions formed her vision and positive outlook into the future psychology field.
Career
Ursula Kodjoe built her reputation as the eminent psychologist, an expert in family therapy and psychological counseling. Her working experience involved initial academic preparation in psychology that followed by the successful practice and helping individuals.
She came to be even more associated with family processes and interethnic relationships, which she studied first-hand, having a multicultural background. Introducing cultural acceptability together with other conventional therapeutic techniques were amongst the main strategies that characterized her brand of psychology.
Over the years she has driven professional and personal endeavors to empower families to deal with intense interpersonal relations within cultural practices. Some of her work involved advising people and families how to deal with transition and change, which she knew first hand being an immigrant.
It is something that she has always been reminding the family to keep cultural values and practice while introducing new experiences in life to her children. This can be traced into the lives of her son Boris Kodjoe who has in most occasions ascribed the success in his life and careers to his mother.
Spouse: Eric Kodjoe
It seemed to give her family the union of cultures and values when she got married to Eric Kodjoe. These cultural values that Eric having being from Ghana introduced into their family life were so impressive. With this, they design their home in a way that the kids would grow up experiencing the German and the Ghanaian cultures.
Mike and Bree also proved that multicultural marriage is something perfect because the couple managed to show that working together even despite the fact that they had different traditions and would not always understand the other person’s choices they still managed to build a strong connection.
It is worth saying that the couple was oriented on education and personal development, thus, providing their children with proper environment. Boris would grow up to be an actor and a model. They were living a proof that love for each other can overcome culture barrier and develop a wonderful family life. Their story helps others learn from and relate to issues people face in cross-cultural relationships and family contexts today.
