Two groups of psychotherapists, 41 white and37 black, averaging 8.2years' experience, completed a 41-item questionnaire regarding psychotherapy with same-and opposite-race clients. White therapists do not experience racial issues in psychotherapy with the same salience that black therapists do, yet they report higher levels of subjective distress in cross-racial treatment. This distress is focused on "negative attitudes" of clients, therapists' feelings of not being able to help or confront opposite race clients, or being oversolicitous or too distant with opposite-race clients. Both therapist groups reported equivalent abilities to empathize with opposite-race clients, but black and white therapists differed on a number of questions of racial attitudes and stereotyping. Based on responses to these parallel questionnaires of racial attitudes and same-and cross-race psychotherapy, we think that black and white psychotherapists differ in their experiences of and attitudes toward cross-racial contact and psychotherapy.