We deserve spaces where we do not have to translate ourselves before we can connect. So let’s create one together.
Practice in Color is a gathering for BIPOC therapists, social workers, counselors, psychologists, students, and other mental health professionals to connect, build community, and be fully seen.
We often talk about the unique experience of practicing as clinicians of color, and we know how isolating that can become. Many of us are one of few clinicians of color in our workplaces. We may be expected to serve as therapists, advocates, educators, cultural translators, and representatives, sometimes all within the same room.
We support clients navigating systems that were never designed to protect them while many of us are also navigating, challenging, and trying to transform those same systems ourselves.
Liberation psychology reminds us that healing cannot be separated from culture, history, power, identity, and community. Our lived experiences are part of our clinical wisdom. They shape how we understand safety, family, trauma, belonging, resistance, and what healing can look like.
Practice in Color is an opportunity to find one another. Come network, build relationships, share resources, exchange referrals and ideas, and talk honestly about the realities of the field. Come meet a potential collaborator, mentor, supervisor, referral partner, or friend. Come have a mocktail, a laugh, or a grievance or two with people who understand the layers of this work.
This is a social gathering rather than a formal training or traditional networking event. There is no pressure to prepare an elevator pitch, perform professionalism, or have everything figured out. We are creating a warm, intentional space to connect as clinicians and as people.
Representation matters, and clinicians of color also need community, collaboration, opportunity, rest, and spaces where our cultural knowledge is recognized as knowledge.
We deserve spaces where we do not have to translate ourselves before we can connect.
Let’s create one together.
