Encore Presentation: Dr. Han Ren on Decolonizing Mental Health @esaleninstitute
Encore Presentation: Dr. Han Ren on Decolonizing Mental Health  @esaleninstitute
Uploaded May 2022 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago
Encore : Dr. Han Ren is a practitioner of decolonial mental health: she offers liberation-oriented, anti-oppressive, culturally informed therapy, and practices from a justice-oriented, systems-informed framework. Some of her specialties include Asian-American mental health, anxiety, perfectionism, high achievers, children of immigrants/third culture kids, anti-racism, and parenting. Dr. Ren is also a force to be reckoned with on TikTok, amassing a large following on a platform she uses in an attempt to make therapy accessible and applicable to our everyday lives.

Together we talked about how white supremacy can be internalized, what it looks like when you center BIPOC mental health in treatment, how one decolonizes language, the conceptual shift from a dyadic trauma perspective to a more collective, societal notion of trauma, and her struggles as a recovering perfectionist.

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Encore Presentation: Dr. Han Ren on Decolonizing Mental Health

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