Hosted by the AAP anti-racism, diversity and equity committee

What does it mean to integrate antiracist and anti-oppressive praxis into your clinical work? This presentation will explore ways we can move beyond cultural competency to cultural humility through the active interrogation of our positionality in relation to the clients we serve. We will identify some of the many ways that white supremacy culture shows up in the therapy room and challenge our assumptions of traditional western psychotherapy case conceptualizations by exploring case vignettes through a liberation psychology lens.

Learning Objectives:

1. Define and apply a cultural humility framework to your clinical practice.
2. Name elements of your own intersectional social positionality in relation to your clients’ positionality.
3. Identify 3 reasons why positionality matters in the therapeutic relationship and clinical approach.
4. Identify and explore how white supremacy cultural values come through in clinical care and case conceptualizations. 

Dr. Han Ren (she/they) is a licensed clinical and school psychologist, consultant, speaker, and educator. She is deeply rooted in liberation and anti-oppressive work, practicing from a justice-oriented, interpersonal, culturally-humble, and systems-informed framework. Through their widely viewed content on social media, they strive to make mental health accessible and applicable to our daily lives. Dr. Ren addresses the pursuit of collective healing through her work centered in historically overlooked communities, especially Asian-Americans and children of immigrants. She co-leads a group private practice in Austin, Texas and has been featured on the TEDx stage, the Headspace app, the Huffington Post, and NPR’s Life Kit. When she’s not in the therapy chair, Dr. Ren is working on her first book: “The Hyphenated Life,” a self-help memoir on bridging the in-between spaces of intersectional identities, debuting in 2026.