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Psychodynamic interpersonal therapy is a time-limited treatment that integrates psychodynamic, humanistic, and interpersonal concepts. The emphasis of the sessions is on the counselor and client collaborating to develop a feeling of partnership through a mutual understanding of language and communication, resulting in a conversational style of insight-driven dialogue. The counselor’s role is to remain unbiased and help the client consolidate their own identity and to exhibit total acceptance of the client by engaging in an ongoing, self-reflective awareness of any bias that can lead to therapeutic ineptitude and impairment. The duration of the treatment is approximately 12 weeks and is delivered in three phases. The counselor first identifies the diagnosis and the interpersonal contexts in which it presents. The counselor then links the diagnosis to an interpersonal focus and brings the client into the second phase of treatment, during which the counselor uses specific strategies to help the client identify and resolve clear interpersonal problem areas. The final phase consists of the counselor and client discussing role transition and rebuilding interpersonal deficits with a focus on termination and maintenance beyond counseling (Markowitz & Weissman, 2004). Attention to cultural dynamics is emphasized; psychodynamic techniques may reveal the influences of trauma that were caused or shaped by diversity inequities.