ABSTRACT
This chapter is a dialogue between Romena Toki, a third-year trainee clinical psychologist and Angela Byrne, a qualified clinical psychologist, in which the authors consider the process of reflection. The term ‘decolonising’ has been increasingly used in clinical psychology but what do we actually mean by it? Critics have argued that it is often tokenistic or used as a proxy for ‘diversity’. The diversity approach has also been criticized for focusing on increasing numbers of people from underrepresented groups but without examining the experience of those trainees and critically examining the knowledge-base and unarticulated cultural assumptions of the profession. We discuss the visible and invisible whiteness of clinical psychology training, what is meant by reflection and the risks inherent in self-disclosure.
