This skill-building workshop will give participants tools that will enable them to work more effectively with clients from diverse backgrounds in mental health and addictions treatment. A partial list of topics includes: The Characteristic of Culturally Competent Clinicians; A Strength-Based Approach to Working with Clients from Diverse Backgrounds; How to Move Beyond First Impressions; Engaging Clients from Diverse Backgrounds within the First 5 Minutes of Contact; How to Become Aware of Your Own Blind Spots; How to Utilize Counter-transference Reactions as a Gift in Cross-cultural Counseling; How to Ensure the Clinician's Biases, Assumptions, and Stereotypes Do Not Negatively Affect the Counseling Relationship; Cultural Humility in Clinical Practice; and how to incorporate culture into evidence-based practices. More topics will be introduced during training to further enhance clinical knowledge.