Since adoption of the new ABA Accreditation standards requiring “intentional interrogation” of professional identity development, clinicians across the country have been expanding their professional identity formation efforts with their clinic students. These efforts can be hindered by dominant professional identity narratives—reinforced in the first two years of legal education and the legal system—that create widespread inequities in our society based on race, economics, gender, gender expression, and sexual orientation and cause significant harm to law students by denying their identities and lived experiences. In this session, we hope to offer some alternative approaches to professional identity development based on the various perspectives of Trauma Informed Legal Advocacy, Mindfulness, Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT), and democratic lawyering. Trauma informed lawyering embraces the idea that the practice of law needs to incorporate practices of self-awareness in order to cultivate and maintain an ability to take into account trauma histories of both the practitioner and their clients. Mindfulness is a practice of paying attention to one's thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations and cultivating a non-reactive and accepting attitude towards one's experiences. CBCT is a system of contemplative exercises designed to grow, strengthen, and sustain our capacity for compassion. Democratic lawyering seeks an inclusive, participatory, and egalitarian approach to lawyering and democracy as a means to achieve social change and address societal injustices through self-government and collective action. We hope to offer several concrete activities that can help clinicians and clinic students consider democratic lawyering principles, develop self-awareness, compassion, and resilience in the context of working in an adversarial system. These activities can provide opportunities for “intentional interrogation” of dominant professional identity narratives and present alternatives to those narratives.