Considering this fundamental of group therapy, the therapist serves the clients best, by first understanding personal cultural and how perspective is viewed in a therapeutic view of human nature. Abbott & Chase (2008) state that as individuals can feel alienated from their host culture if a therapist does not speak the same language, barriers can be presented toward traditional healers. Though it would be easy to hand pick a group of clients from the same race, gender and predisposition to a particular chemical substance, reality dictates that this group dynamic would be rare if existent at all. Yet it is important to have commonality or more over, an ability to understand cultural characteristics in the hopes to create a bond with the client. Working with young adults, new families, and mixed genders of English speaking nationality is a preference, as a cultural understanding is pre-established based on experience. Spirituality remains a high determinate to the recovery process and clients that possess the open-minded reception to spiritually guided therapy would provide a stronger bond between client and therapist. With a goal of successful recovery from substance use, the goals set need to be enthusiastically established and the aid of familiar experience serves dramatically with these