One Toolkit, Two Very Different Problems

Kiki Fehling, described by Psyche as a queer psychologist, writes about using skills drawn from dialectical behaviour therapy to cope — and to find joy — in what the publisher calls a stigmatising world.

That pairing is the interesting part. DBT is named here as a source of practical skills, and the setting is explicitly social: stigma is something done to a person by a world, while a coping skill is something a person does on their own. The piece appears to hold both at once — that you can work on your own responses to prejudice without pretending the prejudice is your problem to solve. Whether borrowed therapy techniques travel well from one kind of distress to another is the open question the framing invites.