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The article describes the Triad Model, a training design to help counselor trainees perceive the positive and negative messages in a cross-cultural client's internal dialogue. Good counseling depends on accurately monitoring the explicit verbal dialogue between a counselor and a client, the counselor's own internal dialogue and the client's internal dialogue. The Triad Model described a means of training counselors to internalize the positive and negative messages that a culturally different client might be thinking but not saying. The preliminary research findings of the authors that are available suggest that the Triad Model does seem to make a difference in a positive direction as a mode of training counselors to work with culturally different clients, although the specificity of that difference remains fairly unclear. The counselor trainee needs to hear both sets of messages in training so that the counselor trainee can internalize the procounselor and the anticounselor function later in actual counseling of culturally different clients. Trainees who experienced the procounselor before the anticounselor were more likely to anticipate future contact with the client.