This article examines the nature and limits of the existing cross-cultural
counseling discourses in order to search for a more culturally sensitive cr
oss-cultural counseling approach. The authors pinpoint the inherent cultura
l deficiencies of the existing modification-based cross-cultural counseling
approaches and advocate that the cross-cultural counseling process should
be an inter-subjective interaction between the counselors and counselees, b
oth of whom are products of their own culture. Cross-cultural counseling th
erefore should be seen as a contextualized cultural activity which requires
the open-mindedness and sensitivity of the practitioners to the cultural i
nfluence of both their clients and themselves.