As a mental health professional, you have the privilege of guiding others toward health and healing, but you may have experienced a sense that there is a gap between the skills learned through counseling strategies and the deep, mind-emotions-spirit healing some clients are seeking. Professional counseling organizations now include the review of a client’s spiritual and religious beliefs as part of ethical practices to address the multicultural understanding and assessment of needs and strengths of the client. While increased emphasis has been placed on understanding the role of spirituality within a therapeutic relationship, many clinicians have not been trained in integrative practices and in how to attend to these needs. This class will define the concept of integration and how it can be ethically applied to the counseling dynamic.