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Empathic understanding is the ability to feel with clients as opposed to feeling for clients. It is the ability to understand feelings, thoughts, ideas, and experiences by viewing them from the client’s frame of reference. The counselor or therapist must be able to enter the client’s world, understand the myriad aspects that make up that world, and communicate this understanding so that the client perceives that they have been heard accurately (Coutinho et al., 2014; Freedberg, 2007; Gatongi, 2008; Singer et al., 2009).