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  • Abstract Local culture-based counseling is a group with interpersonal dynamics focusing on the awareness of thinking, behaviors, mutual trust and support. This group becomes a medium for clients or members to leam for seeking any solution and making decisions towards self-determination in order to be more mature and achieve psychological and social improvements optimally. The technique which could be used to reach such conditions was relearning of emotion by: l) helping clients find ways to calrn their emotion with fulI auiety;2) helping clients re-express their previous experiences by telling story, socio-drama, or psychodrama which were compatible with the values of local cultures, and 3) by giving clients motivation in order to understand themselves and release from anxieties they experienced.