Presenters will explore the intersection of personal and professional experiences related to holding onto hope in the current volatile sociopolitical context. Through this presentation, there will be an examination of the complexity involved when your lived experience is in the room while you are also holding space for clients, students, and supervisees. As clinicians and educators who continue to experience and witness persistent and multiple crises (pandemic, anti-Blackness, anti-Asian hate, legislative attacks against LGBTQIA+ and women, immigration disparities, and many others) during the last 4+ years, we have developed various strategies to mitigate our personal and professional responses. We have learned that our responses must align with both our professional ethics and standards as well as our personal values and commitment to socially just practices. It is critical to explore our multiple identities to ensure we are able to remain present in session and/or in the classroom, as the varied crises within our socio-political environment have serious implications for our clients’, students’, and our own mental health and functioning. The presenters will share lessons learned and moments of success and growth navigating difficult dialogues and establishing communities of support. Finally, there will be discussion of burnout, compassion fatigue, self-care, and self-assessment activities to identify where we are in each of these areas and our efforts to navigate for ourselves while supporting others (clients, students, supervisees). In this workshop the presenters will facilitate dialogue to support the development of a collaborative and critically conscious community as mental health professionals.