Wern Tje Lim

The Inevitability of Cultural Incompetence: Tolerating Racial Discomfort

University of Auckland, New Zealand

Past Speaker

Wern Tje Lim (BSc [Hons]) is New Zealand-born Malaysian Chinese. She is a Doctor of Clinical Psychology candidate at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her thesis is on non-Māori (non-indigenous) clinical psychologists’ experiences of seeking cultural competency and working with Māori clients. She is interested in the impact race and culture has on the personal and professional lives of psychologists.