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Why Western therapy falls short for Indigenous gender concepts

My therapist keeps using Western psychological frameworks to explain my spiritual connection to gender fluidity and I feel like she is missing something essential.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Therapeutic approaches rooted in dominant cultural assumptions may pathologize or misunderstand experiences that make sense within traditional frameworks.

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