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When therapy challenges your spiritual coping mechanisms

I feel peaceful when I pray but my therapist says I might be using spirituality to avoid processing trauma, and now I am confused about everything.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Mental health treatment may question religious practices that serve defensive rather than integrative functions.

Ideas that help explain it
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