The supervisory relationship is a complex process that entails the evolving identities, worldviews, and expectations of supervisors as well as supervisees. For trainees of Color engaged in racial justice work, issues of power, privilege, and oppression are salient-not only in clinical services but also in the supervisory dynamic. Racial Battle Fatigue (RBF) has been described as the "social-psychological stress responses (e.g.. frustration, anger. exhaustion, physical avoidance, psychological or emotional withdrawal, escapism, acceptance of racist attributions)" (Smith. Allen. & Danley, 2007, pp. 552) associated with being a Person of Color and being the repeated target of systemic racial oppression. The current study is a community autoethnography focusing on the experiences of three counseling psychology doctoral-level students and our experiences of RBF in different supervisory processes during internship year. Each of us selected the internship site because of the training emphasis on multiculturalism and diversity, yet our supervisory experiences included support as well as challenges for engaging in racial justice dialogues. Our article reflects the perspective of two racial and ethnic minorities as well as a White ally committed to racial justice work. We describe the supervisory processes that contributed to our RBF and underscore the importance of having supervisors and peers who model and create the space to help us dialogue about privilege, power, identity, and oppression. We highlight the strengths of our internship site and provide recommendations to further enhance multicultural competency in the supervisory relationship. Implications for research, practice, and clinical training are provided.
