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Clinicians have oftentimes asserted that “good counseling is good counseling” and that good clinical practice subsumes cultural competence, which is simply a subset of good clinical skills. In this view, they would make a strong case that if Dr. D. had simply exercised these therapeutic skills, he would have worked effectively with Gabriella. Our contention, however, is that cultural competence is superordinate to counseling competence. How Dr. D. worked with Gabriella contains the seeds of a therapeutic bias that makes him susceptible to cultural errors in therapy. Traditional definitions of counseling and psychotherapy are culture‐bound because they are defined from a primarily White Western European perspective (Gallardo, 2022; Thalmayer et al., 2021). Let us briefly explore the rationale for our position.