This presentation introduces the concept of racialized spaces and how these spaces can frequently feel hostile, unwelcoming, and racist. To live and thrive in these spaces, people of Color often feel compelled to work and achieve merit within these spaces. Their work is often rewarded with positions of power and authority that are confined within certain spaces. These forms of proxy-privileges provide many people of Color a sense of belonging, but unlike white racial privileges and the feeling of being “in-place” in many white spaces, people of Color are consistently fighting against their experiences of displacement and dispossession (i.e., feelings and experiences of out-of-placeness). Using this framework, Dr. Liu will discuss and describe how clinicians may use the concept of proxy-privileges and racialized spaces to better understand clients and ways to build stronger therapeutic relationships.