A recovering psychologist is a practitioner of mental health and wellbeing who has gone through a process of recognizing, questioning and deconstructing their professional practices and the systemic contexts in which they are embedded. They are intimately aware of the subtle and pervasive ways that power, institutional pressures, and unspoken norms can shape our relationships and sense of identity, and have developed a capacity to actively reimagine and reconstruct their practices to be informed and held by an ethic of care and sustainability. This process serves to open up more equitable and connected ways of engaging with the communities, the persons, and the systems around them.

See also: intergenerational trauma, post-traumatic growth, racial justice, white ally, late-stage capitalism