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No matter what cultural groups we identify or have grown up with, we are often constrained by a limited worldview (Sue et al., 2019). Part of our exploration will be looking at the cultural filters that human beings naturally use that distort, devalue, or deny experiences of people (colleagues, clients, etc.) who are different from us in important ways. Psychotherapy itself includes values and traditions that may make more sense in some cultures. For example, many Western psychotherapeutic approaches value individuality and independence. Other worldviews value interdependence and seeking the best for the community. We aren’t saying that one is better over the other. We are saying that our cultural lenses, and we all have at least one, filter our ways of seeing and understanding our clients, their world, and their experience of the world.