Consider a scenario where a 'white-passing' indigenous client struggles to accept an indigenous financial scholarship they need to continue their education but believes they do not deserve it. In-session, they minimize their indigenous identity as a "technicality" and adamantly claim "it is notreallyreal" because "realnatives" have "real problems." The client was adopted into a family that placed high values on "whiteness" as a toddler and expressed feeling "lucky" to have not suffered "constant abuse and poverty like native kids do" despite their low socioeconomic status and personal traumas. You notice micro-aggressions in their vernacular and a general insecurity in belongingness and connectedness.

How do you proceed?

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