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When therapy requires cultural betrayal to access healing

My therapist keeps asking about my relationship with my mother but in my culture you do not dissect family bonds like this and it feels wrong.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Therapeutic investigation can violate cultural codes of loyalty and create additional trauma around family examination.

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“Where Are You with Cultural idioms of distress?”

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