This course provides an understanding of how spiritual and religious issues can be successfully integrated into counseling in a manner that is respectful of client beliefs and practices. It emphasizes the ethical obligation that counselors have to obtain competency in addressing religious and spiritual diversity in counseling, and how they can access the healing resources in religious communities to assist their clients in coping, healing and changing. Issues related to how the counselor's own spiritual development may help or hinder the counseling process are also examined, along with best practices in counseling clients whose faith differs from their own.