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The psychiatric survivor movement is an international political movement dedicated to fighting for human rights in the mental health system. People who identify as “psychiatric survivors ” have experienced human rights abuses and oppression within the mental health system. In grassroots advocacy and peer-support groups, psychiatric survivors support one another as they heal from iatrogenic trauma, and also engage in activism efforts, creating and operating alternatives to traditional mental health services. A small number of psychiatric survivors have a chosen to re-enter the system as mental health professionals, and the current project focuses on the experiences of people with this dual-identity. The first goal for the project is that it helps to facilitate further dialogues between psychologists and the psychiatric survivor movement by exploring the implications of identifying with both discourses. The second goal is to engage in a process of researcher reflexivity, and in doing so, better understand my evolving identity as a therapist and ally of the survivor movement. Lastly, by exploring the experiences of people with a survivor-therapist dual identity, I will discuss how mental health professionals an