ABSTRACT
As a Latina psychologist and faculty member of a professional training program, the author is aware of her critical role in the development of future psychologists to work with Latinx communities. In this chapter she shares her testimonio to shed light on her evolving perspectives of identity, and clinical and cultural humility as it pertains to work specifically with Latinas in psychotherapy. Aspects of her testimonio that inform this analysis include: (a) battling depression and working to destigmatize mental illness; (b) being in an interracial marriage and raising multiracial children; (c) engaging in ethnic and racial socialization; (d) negotiating the lasting effects of acculturation for fourth-generation Latinas who continue to live in the Borderlands due to historical trauma; and (e) actively rejecting the debilitating effects of imposter syndrome in her professional life. This chapter blends the theoretical and clinical knowledge from psychology with the wisdom gained from the author’s ancestors and through her lived experience.
