Multicultural counseling theories, developed over the last 35 years, have elucidated the experiences of marginalized populations--women, people of color, gay men and lesbians, working-class people, people with disabilities, and other stigmatized groups--within a sociopolitical context that is embedded with negative messages about their worth. These theories have contributed significantly to the knowledge of the impact of social, political, economic, and historical factors on cultural identity, particularly for persons with stigmatized cultural identities (Arredondo et al., 1996). In this article, the author (1) examines the strengths and limitations of two prominent, culturally based counseling theories--Afrocentrism and feminism--for therapy with African American women; (2) discusses, through a case illustration, the relevance of "womanist" (i.e., African American feminist) models for counseling African American women who are balancing the competing demands of different cultural communities; and (3) proposes clinical strategies that seek to bridge the multiple cultural identities of African American women.