This interactive 3-hour webinar critically examines how identity, power, and lived experience structure the therapeutic encounter. Identity-conscious psychotherapy functions as a framework that actively resists deficit-based clinical lenses, requiring practitioners to interrogate the colonial and expert-driven assumptions embedded in clinical disciplines. Concepts traditionally pathologized as "resistance," enmeshment, or non-compliance must be reconceptualized as legitimate mechanisms of epistemological self-preservation and relational wisdom. Grounded in epistemic justice and the CuRReNTS-C framework, the session prompts participants to cultivate deep reflexivity and relational presence. The curriculum explores how to notice and respond to moments of clinical tension, cultural disconnection, and rupture without retreating into avoidance or professional defensiveness. By bridging critical theory with clinical application, the training equips clinical providers and graduate-level students with actionable, trauma-sensitive strategies for sustaining relational accountability and ethical responsiveness across profound differences in social location.