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Why Western therapy approaches can feel culturally impossible

Every therapist I see wants to talk about my relationship with my mother but they do not understand that questioning elders is not something people like me do

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Therapeutic assumptions about individual autonomy are clashing with cultural values of respect and hierarchy.

Ideas that help explain it
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