Abstract This paper focuses on exploring the issue of multicultural counseling and the challenges it may cause. Multicultural counseling is concentrated not only on the understanding of racial and ethnic groups and minorities such as Asian Americans, Native Americans, numerous white ethnic groups, etc., but on people of different gender, people with disabilities, the elderly, and others. It is considered that multicultural counseling promotes a conceptual awareness of the complexity and diversity of modern society. Based on the literature review, this paper provides insights on the ethical and legal consequences the violation of multicultural counseling may lead to, including the risk of losing licensure, inappropriate relationships with clients, etc. Furthermore, a researcher assumes personal views regarding the problem supported by arguments and recommendations on how to resolve the issue and provide the most beneficial counseling services possible. Introduction The ethical issue of multicultural counseling refers to the problem of cross-cultural interactions in the framework of clinical, counseling, and psychotherapy services that are rather important. The study of the aspects of multicultural counseling helps the counselors to be more precise at different stages of their work with clients. In particular, the relationships with a client and understanding of his or her problems that have caused difficulties are aimed at minimizing the cultural errors caused by a client’s problematic situations. In this context, multiculturalism is defined as a series of social incentives that are products of other people’s behavior. Multiculturalism attaches importance both to those aspects in which the groups differ from each other and to those aspects, in which they are at the same time similar. The lack of understanding of diversity and knowledge to accept and promote it leads to negative consequences. In this regard, this paper will investigate the ethical dilemmas related to culture as well as potential ways to resolve and prevent them most effectively. The research question may be posed as follows: what are the key cultural and religious challenges of counseling? Review of Literature Culture as integrity affects a person and the very process of helping him or her, and consideration of cultural factors means taking into account age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, race, and other possible peculiarities which exclude various forms of harassment, including racism, sexism, ageism, etc. The creation of a culturally accepting environment is proposed as the top priority for counseling services. According to Pedersen, Lonner, Draguns, Trimble, and Scharron-del Rio (2016), multicultural counseling deals with two or more people who perceive the social environment differently but try to work in collaboration. The authors propose to consider multicultural counseling as consisting of the following variables:   * Ethnographic (ethnicity, nationality, religion, and language);   * Demographic (age, sex, residence);   * Status (social, economic, educational);   * Affiliations (formal membership of a family or organization and informal affiliation to certain ideas or ways of life). In their turn, Lee and Richardson point out the pitfalls of a broad perspective of multiculturalism, claiming that t