“…Already, there is evidence that broaching race and racism benefits the working alliance, client self‐disclosure, counselor credibility, client satisfaction with services and attendance, and counselor cross‐cultural counseling competence and multicultural orientation (Fuertes et al, 2002; King & Borders, 2019; Knox et al, 2003; Zhang & McCoy, 2009). Despite this promise, counselors hesitate to broach with clients (Jones & Welfare, 2017), expressing various levels of willingness, depending on the counselor's own positionality and beliefs about the relevance of culture and power (e.g., individuals who endorse race neutrality are, on average, less multiculturally competent and harbor more biases; Day‐Vines et al, 2018; King & Summers, 2020). As a further complication, scholars have made multiple, and at times contradictory, recommendations for how and when to apply this skill in session, creating confusion between the imperative to take clear, deliberate action and the need to be delicate about the nuances of a particular client's life situation.…”