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our listeners today's episode is on multicultural psychotherapy.

The topic is quite broad, but I thought as a way of just touching upon a small part of it,

I would provide a hypothetical example in therapy and talk about what

the possible interventions or the possible things that I as a therapist might do to respond

to a multicultural issue in therapy. But before we go into the example,

let's just define what multicultural psychotherapy is. Basically, it is a type of psychotherapy that sees all people as cultural beings,

that all of our actions, thoughts, and feelings involve culture.

Traditionally, we might see culture as just involving ethnicity,

but it involves all sorts of factors like language,

sexual orientation, gender, age, disability, class, your education level, where you grew

up, the region you grew up, the religion that you grew up with, the religion you have now or your spiritual orientation, and other cultural dimensions.

So it's a complex topic and if you have not been exposed to it before, I recommend that you expose yourself to it because it's

an important part of human life and I think we're better off for having an awareness of ourselves and others culturally.

So let's take a hypothetical client who recently came out as gay and he's in session with me and he says to me that he is feeling down about having come out as gay because he feels that he is no longer a man. He remembers as a child growing up and making fun of boys who were feminine, calling

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