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Faith and Indigenous healing ceremonies offer spiritually oriented interventions that maintain client wellness or mitigate client existential, biopsychosocial, or spiritual distress.Mental health practitioners of all identities may ethically apply ceremony-assisted treatments with Native and non-Native populations.Three such interventions are described in this article, drawn from Indigenous traditions as practiced personally and professionally by the first and third authors.Directives for use, including populations appropriate for application, adaptations, ethical considerations, and culturally responsive competency considerations, are included.
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