In this paper, I describe a Mahayana counseling approach based on Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication process steps, including:

• Definitions of counseling and suffering that establish the basis for an approach I call
  Mindful Counseling,
• A normative model of Nonviolent Communication that describes its view, practice and result,
• A demonstration that this model is practically congruent with Mahayana view,
• A description of several ways in which Nonviolent Communication is used within
  Mindful Counseling.

My focus is twofold: providing a rationale for offering Nonviolent Communication as a basis for a Mahayana counseling method - which I call Mindful Counseling in this paper - and suggesting ways in which it might be used to help relieve client suffering. Because this is a new area of study' my emphasis is on establishing a theoretical ground for Buddhist chaplains who want to use Mindful Counseling. While I do attempt to demonstrate utility by providing several examples of techniques and their intended results, an in-depth examination of the method in practice, along with other research, remains to be done; this is the subject of the last section of this paper.