The aim of the current presentation is to help critically evaluate the practices of positionality statement in counselor education. This session will provide counselor educators and researchers approaches for enacting a relational, contextualized, and power-conscious positionality that can be applied to their qualitative inquiry. Positionality statements can become an intentional stance towards dismantling oppressive research traditions and can have a transformative impact on the future work counselors and researchers do with marginalized folx.