Counselling in Diverse Contexts

The ability to work within diverse contexts is essential for practitioners to build effective therapeutic rapport, address clients' unique needs, and provide empathetic, culturally informed care. Students engage in self-reflection to explore their own intersectionality, expand their understanding of cultural competence, cultivate cultural humility, and develop the skills to tailor holistic interventions. Students also focus on Indigenous perspectives, value systems, healing paths and historical contexts to support therapeutic relationship building. Through self-reflection exercises, case studies, and community-based research, students gain a deeper understanding of how to effectively work within diverse contexts related to gender, sexuality, culture, and ethnicity.