ABSTRACT
Professionals providing counseling and psychotherapy can support and extend the benefits of their clients’ personal changes by engaging in community action. This requires awareness of self as one who can access and contribute to broad-based change through the use of personal and professional resources. While a full community assessment is well beyond what many therapists would be expected to engage in, a critical appraisal of the practical realities and their structural origins is helpful both to make connections and to identify points where investment in change is most helpful.
