Mental Health Resources
Let’s destigmatize mental health in the medical community!
We believe deeply in the necessity for equitable and inclusive mental health resources for all people. Mental health support is an essential resource for those of us working in healthcare to process experiences of trauma, anxiety, depression, identity, and structural oppressions (and many other challenging issues that arise). Even for those of us in the health profession, it can be really difficult to identify and connect with mental health resources and to navigate the stigma associated with seeking mental health services.
One of our hopes in building this resource guide is to build a community collective of resources and recommendations for mental health resources. Many of the therapy resources listed below offer virtual therapy so you may not need to limit yourself to a therapist in your city as long as they are licensed in the state you live in (never hurts to ask!).
Thank you to the wonderful Erin Carnahan for helping us compile these resources!
Resources for Accessing Therapy
This list is by no means comprehensive and we welcome all feedback and additions since we have not personally worked with these organizations. Please email us at hello@introspectivespaces.com with any comments or concerns.
Mission: Project Passport is a proactive mental wellness service that helps companies, organizations and women take control of their mental health by implementing preventative wellness tools and solutions that they can apply to their daily lives. Through virtual and on site workshops, retreats, experiences, and events, we have innovated ways to make mental well-being tangible and experiential to help people find the perfect concoction of tools to increase their overall sense of joy in life. Our goal is to help clients unite and participate in opportunities that normalize mental wellness, produce personal and professional growth, lifelong connections, a space for belonging, and deeper cross-cultural appreciation.
Mission: Humor for Hope prevents and heals trauma by using comedy and improvisation. They offer customized humor therapy for patients placed on isolation units or students struggling with mental and emotional health, group based trauma-informed humor therapy, trauma-informed improvisation and compassion care coaching for medical professionals, clinicians, and teachers, customized humor therapy workshops for grief, loss, trauma, and therapeutic group processing.
Mission: As trauma focused, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors, we believe that so much of our exploitative health care system along with our capitalistic, consumerist society is deeply flawed. As a result, our bodies and brains are suffering. Our job at PsychSomatica is to help you figure out what gets in the way of making these changes and how to move forward in a way that leaves you feeling healthy, whole and connected.
Mission: Open Path Psychotherapy Collective is a non-profit nationwide network of mental health professionals dedicated to providing in-office and online mental health care—at a steeply reduced rate—to individuals, couples, children, and families in need.
Asian Mental Health Collective
Mission: It is the mission of AMHC to normalize and de-stigmatize mental health within the Asian community.
Mission: All people with all abilities in all bodies deserve equal access to identity affirming, culturally responsive care. We aim to make this process simpler and safer.
We center the needs of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. We honor the full neurodiversity spectrum and advocate for mental health care accessibility for people with disabilities/ disabled people.
Mission: The psychotherapist association for gender and sexual diversity provides mental health services including therapist referrals, education and consultation. Our members offer a wide range of specializations, allowing us to serve as a unique resource both to the LGBTQ communities and to other service providers.
The Black Virtual Wellness Directory
MIssion: BEAM’s (Black Emotional And Mental Health) mission is to remove the barriers that Black people experience getting access to or staying connected with emotional health care and healing. We do this through education, training, advocacy and the creative arts.
Mission: To remove the stigma around mental health in the Black community. To provide a platform for Black women and men to find therapists they relate to. To aid in the mission of supporting mental health in our community.
Therapy for Queer People of Color
Mission: To connect Queer & Trans People of Color to affirming anti-oppressive mental health professionals.
Mission: We are the largest South Asian mental health community in the world. Our directory has hundreds of South Asian therapists, including therapists of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Afghani and Nepali heritage. Here you can find culturally competent South Asian mental health professionals to help you get the support you’re looking for.
Support Embrace Empower Mental Health Advocacy (SEEMA)
SEEMA advocates to embrace and empower mental health by way of support groups, educational workshops, social activities, and access to professionals, to eradicate mental health stigma within the Muslim community.
Mission: Melanin & Mental Health® was born out of a desire to connect individuals with culturally competent clinicians committed to serving the mental health needs of Black & Latinx/Hispanic communities. We are committed to promoting the growth and healing of our communities through our website, online directory, and monthly events.
Mission: We provide resources for our community to heal, thrive, and become advocates for their own mental health
Mission: Latinx Therapy was founded in 2018 with the mission to destigmatize mental health in the Latinx community. Since then, we have expanded to become a bilingual podcast and national directory to find a Latinx Therapist (98% of our directory are Spanish speakers). Latinx Therapy strives to provide culturally-grounded workshops and services to our community.
Mission: All TherapyDen providers agree to be inclusive and welcoming of all genders, races, countries of origin, sexual orientations, religions, and abilities. In their therapy practices, they will, to the best of their ability, create a safe place for anyone and everyone that seeks their services.
Mission: Ruh Care is the largest global therapist directory of Muslim Therapists, aiming to help clients find therapists aligned with their values.
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Types of Mental Health Professionals
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Tips for Navigating Health Insurance
If you have health insurance that will cover mental health services, you can go through the insurance website to the directory of providers (though it is not always up to date). If your health insurance offers an “insurance navigator program,” they can help with identifying providers who may be covered by your insurance plan. When you call to make an appointment, you can confirm with the therapist if they are still accepting new patients and if your insurance is accepted. In addition, it is important to confirm with your insurance company prior to your first appointment that this provider will be covered.
One other option is checking for out-of-network coverage for mental health. Some percentage of the appointment could be reimbursed by your insurance company (and may require you to send in a receipt/ bill from the therapy appointment). Finally, some insurance plans often offer some online resources, programs, or health coaching.