Abstract
Constructing a contextual model of pastoral counseling with African-American women, the writer describes, interprets, and evaluates use of the practical correlation method. This technique is the interdisciplinary conversation between Womanist pastoral counseling, the Iillichian concept ofgrace, and the Kohutian concept of empathy. The processes by which some African-American women clients restructure meaning need to be defined by an approach responding to the various dimensions of the self I his concept refers to the clients reflective awareness in the pastoral counseling context and is the center of the meaning making activity of interpretation and appropriation.