This article concerns the establishment and development of La Clinica In LaK’ech, a bilingual mental health clinic collectively founded and staffed by a counseling psychologist and doctoral students in a counseling psychology doctoral program in the Southeast United States. During over 5 years of existence, the clinic has blended bilingual counseling psychology services, advocacy, interdisciplinary collaboration, and research with the Latinx population. The authors describe the development of the clinic and resultant clinical, training, and ethical issues that confronted the clinic in terms of providing services to a marginalized community in a state where anti-immigrant rhetoric, detention, and deportations were escalating. Also discussed are implications for training in practice, advocacy, service, and research for counseling psychologists working with Latinx communities.

This chapter provides an overview of the history of Latinx feminism. It includes a brief history about Latinx feminist leaders and the development of feminism including womanism, Black feminism, mujerismo, and womanista. The chapter includes ways in which Latina feminism highlights indigenous ways of knowing including mestiza consciousness, borderlands, and nepantla. This chapter sets the groundwork for the authors to explore contemporary perspectives on Latinx feminism including their own feminist identity developments in another chapter.

This chapter discusses contemporary perspectives related to Latinx feminism. This chapter builds upon a previous chapter about the history of Latinx feminism. Ways in which feminism and gender identity intersect with other identities are discussed. The authors discuss how Latinx feminism provides avenues to resist oppression. The chapter ends with a discussion of application of feminist concepts discussed and future directions. A combination of third-person research and personal narrative is utilized.

Nine self-identified Latina psychologists were interviewed, and the data were analyzed using consensual qualitative research methods (Hill, 2012;Hill et al., 1997Hill et al., , 2005 to investigate how they define and understand their feminist identities. Data analysis from nine interviews yielded four domains that reveal how Latina feminist psychologists capture and conceptualize the meaning of their feminist identities. Implications are discussed, limitations are highlighted, and directions for future research are presented. Public Significance StatementQualitative findings suggest that the experiences of Latina-identified feminist psychologists are varied and diverse. While all participants identified as Latina feminist psychologists, each defined feminism differently yet all spoke to gender identity, mentorship, and family as being influential in their feminist identity development.

The authors of this book are part of a diverse network of scholars and practitioners with expertise in various aspects of Latinx psychology and mental health. They share a similar purpose of expanding the pipeline of Latinx counselors and psychologists to collectively create a just and healthy society for all Latinxs. This chapter reflects on the common linkages and underdeveloped areas among the chapters. Future directions for Latinx mental health are presented and include but are not limited to the incorporation of liberatory frameworks and interdisciplinary approaches.