ABSTRACT
The supervisor and instructor must be able to move between his or her cultural worldview and the cultural perspective of the other. The clinical supervisor must also model what it means to be a responsive and competent multicultural therapist by doing her or his work. This requires a willingness to be genuine, continue self-assessing for cultural biases and projections, and have empathy for students and supervisees. The subject of race and culture is difficult and continues to be a threatening and an emotionally laden topic in our society today. The author had a student who asked me why it is necessary to even consider culture and race in counseling psychology. In fact, there is at least one student each year who believes it is wrong to bring race into psychotherapy training because, in their view, people are all the same, and true healing occurs on a deeper level.
