It is believed that a counselor’s empathy is one of the most important therapeutic tools in counseling that increases treatment compliance, strengthens therapeutic alliances, and brings positive prognosis. However, coordination is necessary in that such important empathy can sometimes cause excessive empathy stress and empathy fatigue on the counselor. The counselor’s excessive emotional empathy and self-exposure are reported as the main factors of empathy fatigue, by which producing unnecessary transference and counter-transference. As a result, the counselor fails to diagnose and treat the client’s symptoms effectively. In this study, ‘empathy as detached concern’ is proposed as a way to reduce empathy fatigue in counseling settings. The empathy as detached concern is a ‘clinical empathy’ which is designed for the effective treatment and the protection of counselors. It is a way of empathy in which the counselor suppresses the emotional role of empathy as much as possible and instead focuses on the cognitive role. However, it is not easy to provide the empathy as detached concern in the clinical field. In this respect, this study presented clinical empathy procedures and counseling cases called ‘curiosity-history taking-emotional engagement’ to provide clinical empathy to clients while avoiding excessive emotional empathy and self-exposure. Further, its effectiveness and limitations are evaluated. In addition, based on the evaluation of the empathy as detached concern, the necessity and method of ‘empathy concern’ were proposed along with the case as a complementary way to prevent emotional coldness and dullness caused by excessive detachment.