“…Perhaps, the most significant hurdle to social justice advocacy is the individualistic focus of the counseling profession mediated through counselor education in conjunction with the profession's tendency to differentiate from social work. Clients would be better served if counselors were trained with a more systemic lens through which critically compassionate intellectualism, a framework developed by Latine scholars, could provide models of advocacy at the micro‐, meso‐, and macrolevels (Rector‐Aranda, 2019; Hanna et al., 2000). Furthermore, we need to help prepare students for supervisors and institutions where they will intern and work that maybe resistant to justice initiatives (Fickling, 2018).…”