Centering Equity & Cultural-Affirming Care

Dr. Raquel Martin and Dr. Han Ren have guided over 600 professionals, educators, clinicians, and health care providers in centering antiracism and anti-oppressive care in their practices and organizations.

  • Dr. Martin and Dr. Ren have sold out their Becoming an Antiracist and Anti-Oppressive Clinician course over 5 times. Now participants can take the course as an online webinar with an accompanying workbook.

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  • Doing the work can feel isolating, but so many people are working to improve themselves. Join Dr. Martin and Dr. Ren in a live workshop to have a sense of community as we do this work together.

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Course participants will learn:

  • To start thinking and conceptualizing their clinical work with antiracist and anti-oppressive frameworks in mind.

  • To immediately utilize their new awareness of systemic oppressions and cultural biases to apply to rethinking their own practices.

  • To identify levels of oppression and how to apply resources to address each level.

In the course, Dr. Martin & Dr. Ren will:

  • Help participants understand their own individual, internalized racism, positions of privilege and power.

  • Discuss real life, specific examples of oppression (interpersonal oppression vs. institutional oppression).

  • Walk through clinical applications so participants can effectively support their clients in a meaningful and helpful way.

  • “Hearing a holistic perception of what the mental health field is about. Addressing, pointing, and welcoming the elephant in the room that many professionals are too uncomfortable to name.“

    — Lucia Yepez Frias, MSW Candidate

  • “Drs. Martin and Ren, I have spent my entire life knowing that my positionality is not my identity - though there is no abdication of privilege - and I lacked the words to reflect this. Recent health challenges are confirming how I have internalized white supremacy to the literal depths of my DNA, and I will no longer silence my body's voice. Your workshop was safe, uplifting, validating, and empowering, and gave me language to use as I embrace my authentic self. I hope I can impact those I accompany in treatment as deeply as you impacted me. I will be forever grateful.”

    — Meredith C Classen, Ed.M., M.A.

  • “I loved the approach of both presenters overall - their knowledge, experience, and delivery of extremely relevant content was fucking awesome. I really appreciate the critical thinking behind shifting from cultural competence to cultural humility. I greatly enjoyed the examples of how to implement antiracist values into various aspects of clinical practice. I also very much enjoyed the overall realness of both presenters.”

  • “The case study was great. It helped me to see ways that racism and oppression can come up and how it can be so casually thrown in a client's conversation. You could possibly miss it if you are not aware how to identify it.”

  • “I thoroughly appreciate that these sessions were recorded and dictated. As a neurodivergent person, it can be quite difficult and stressful during online learning to feel as if I have to absorb and document everything happening right this second when my brain isn’t always on board to do this. This makes going back and reviewing on my own time possible and easy so thank you.”

    — Leah Burrows

  • “Please keep doing this. Your [Dr. Martin and Dr. Ren] expertise combined with your authenticity and humor made this a thought-provoking and meaningful 3 hours.“

  • “It was great to learn about this topic with an application-focused angle. So much seems to be about learning the content, and therapists want to learn the APPLICATION! I felt like this did a nice job of balancing these two pieces and gave me more to learn than others I've attended.“

  • “I so appreciated a safe and diverse space to learn language to help recognize white supremacist practices in mental health services. It's so liberating to have an opportunity to challenge our presumption that the way we learned or are told to practice through licensing boards - "best practice" - may in fact be harmful practice. Thank you for such an informative, practical and inspiring workshop!”

    — Kaitlin Winslow

Anti-Oppressive Care

Taught by Dr. Raquel Martin and Dr. Han Ren 

Dr. Raquel Martin

Dr. Raquel Martin is an experienced licensed clinical psychologist, devoted professor, acclaimed researcher and scientist who believes deeply in the power of Black mental wealth – an affirming, lifelong journey that encourages Black people to center mental health practices as integral and intentionally linked to success and wellbeing. 

Dr. Martin is on a mission to radically reimagine Black possibility by promoting Black mental health as key to legacy-building and longevity for generations to come.

As a mom, partner, mentor, and a Black woman navigating racism, gender bias and oppression, she embraces the importance of protecting mental health. Dr. Martin is publicly transparent with her own experiences and vulnerabilities because she knows that “healing in public helps those who need to heal in private.”  

Dr. Han Ren

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.

When she’s not in the therapy chair, you can find her laughing with family and friends, caffeinating with black coffee, dancing offbeat to live music and Peloton-ing.

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