Naia Ōkami, a Seattle-area therian who occasionally dresses in wolf ears and a tail, volunteers at wolf preserves to bond with the animals. “So spiritually and psychologically, I identify as a ...

According to IntraSpectrum Counseling, a ‘therian’ is short for ‘therianthrope'. It states on its website: “It means a person who identifies integrally as a nonhuman being, such as a wolf ...

“Being a therian (someone who identifies as a species of non-human animal) does none of those things. “It’s not really affected me negatively,” she said. Naia says that identifying as a ...

Therians have been hosting meet-ups throughout ... Some TikTok users express their identities by adopting a cat mask or wolf mask, depending on which animal they feel an affinity with.