Enhancing Mental Health Counseling Support in Bangladesh using Culturally-Grounded Knowledge

arXiv:2604.14576v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) show promise in generating supportive responses for mental health and counseling applications. However, their responses often lack cultural sensitivity, contextual grounding, and clinically appropriate guidance. This work addresses the gap of how to systematically incorporate domain-specific, clinically validated knowledge into LLMs to improve counseling quality. We utilize and compare two approaches, retrieval-augmente