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At present there has been a paradigm shift in the guidance and counseling approach, namely from a traditional, remedial, clinical, and centered approach to counselors to a development and preventive oriented approach. One of the counselors creative efforts is to grow and build relationships with the counselee by implementing cross-cultural counseling services with problems that can be measured in terms of culture, ethnicity, and even gender. One form of the problem that currently often occurs is the low empathy. Empathy is the ability to put ourselves in others, that we understand how other people feel, and what causes their reactions without our emotions dissolved in the emotions of others. Efforts to increase student empathy that have been carried out by BK teachers have only been merely instructional which essentially only "attacks" the cognitive aspects of students. Therefore, a new counseling approach for life is needed in this 21st century, the tendency of cross-cultural insightful counseling. The cross-cultural approach is seen as the fourth force after a psychodynamic, behavioral and humanistic approach according to Paul Pedersen. Cross-cultural counseling involves counselors and counselees who come from different cultural backgrounds, and therefore the counseling process is very vulnerable to the occurrence of cultural biases on the part of the counselor which results in counseling not being effective.