What we understand as clinical work is built and perceived within context.  Race in the United States has traditionally been viewed in a White-Black binary, but identities are much more nuanced.  Psychoanalysis is also historically built with white experience as the status quo. Any individual that falls outside of these narrow definitions may not find themselves reflected, therapists and patients alike. Awareness of differences in race, culture, and political views among other aspects will inevitably impact our understanding of others, of the self, and of the in-betweens. Through a review of an interview with Lara Sheehi, PsyD, and an article by Leilani Salvo Crane, PsyD, this reading group aims to stimulate thoughts and reflections surrounding clinicians' and patients' identities, perceived or otherwise, and desires and challenges in finding mutuality. It is crucial to begin conversations to decenter whiteness, in which individuals within the consultation rooms are not assumed to be white as well as examining racism and other oppressions among BIPOC clinicians and patients, especially in a community mental health setting in which multiple intersectionality of identities and disenfranchisement are often witnessed and felt.