As a clinician here at UIMH, you will be expected to do the following:

1. Clinicians must be in a space in their own healing journey where they are slow to offense and inspiring to learn from and teach others for the empowerment of BIPOC clients and the field as a whole.

2. If something that is said in your session moves you to any emotion that does not sit well with you, you must be open to the idea of embracing the emotion and reflecting on what was triggering about the content. Once realizing what triggered you, you must challenge yourself to use that information to enlighten your therapy practice.

3. Clinicians must be open to questioning everything that they have ever automatically and unconsciously believed and have been taught; most specifically as it pertains to mental health clinical practice and techniques.

4. If you are a person who has been born into privilege in any area of your life (race, sex, gender orientation, sexuality, etc.) You must commit to hold yourself accountable for the beliefs and behaviors that contribute to upholding colonized beliefs and systems of oppression. Even if your behaviors were unconscious and unintentional. Once you become aware of these beliefs and behaviors, you must commit to positive change.

5. Clinicians will be expected to hold space for clients and colleagues who may be new to the decolonization of their minds.  If someone offends you unintentionally, it must be addressed in supervision and made to be an opportunity to learn and grow.