PEOPLE OF COLOR
For when you know you need support, but you are not sure where to begin.These resources can help you talk to someone, find local support, search for treatment, understand what you may be feeling, or take a private first step.
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Inclusive Therapists
Best For: People looking for culturally responsive, identity-affirming therapy, especially BIPOC, QTBIPOC, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent, disabled, immigrant, and marginalized communities.
What It Offers: A therapist, counselor, coach, and healer directory; a free human-led get-matched service; low-cost and nonprofit service filters; therapy funds/community resources; crisis support resources; event/group calendars; and learning resources. The directory highlights racial justice, 2SLGBTQIA+ justice, neurodivergence, disability justice, and privacy values.
How to Use It: Search the directory by location, identity, insurance, language, specialty, accessibility, sliding scale, and services. Or use the free get-matched service.
Cost: Free to search. Provider costs vary. Some providers offer sliding scale or low-cost options.
Access Options: Directory, free get-matched service, filters, resources, groups/events, learning library.
Good to Know: Scope: national/online directory. It is identity-forward and values-forward, so it may feel safer for people who have had bad experiences with generic directories. -
Therapy for Black Girls
Best For: Black women and girls looking for therapy, mental health education, community, and culturally familiar support.
What It Offers: A therapist directory, podcast, blog, Sister Circle community, and a starter guide for people who are not ready to search for a provider yet. The provider directory page says it helps users find a therapist for Black girls in their area.
How to Use It: Search the provider directory, listen to the podcast, read the blog, join the community, or start with the therapy guide.
Cost: Free to search and read/listen. Therapy costs vary by provider. Community offerings may have their own terms.
Access Options: Directory, podcast, blog, community, therapy starter guide.
Good to Know: Scope: national/online, with provider search by area. Best for culturally specific support rather than broad crisis help. -
Black Mental Health Alliance
Best For: Black communities, Black families, culturally rooted behavioral health, neurodiversity support, and community-centered mental health programming.
What It Offers: BMHA describes its work as making culturally relevant behavioral health care accessible for Black communities through trusted resources, support programs, equity-driven mental health services, holistic practices, education, and community programming. It also notes more than four decades of work in culturally relevant behavioral health care.
How to Use It: Browse services, programs, strategic priorities, and contact options. Use it as a culturally specific support and referral resource.
Cost: Free to browse. Program/service costs may vary depending on offering or referral.
Access Options: Website resources, services form, programs, contact page, social channels, newsletter.
Good to Know: Scope: Black community-centered organization with Baltimore-region roots and national relevance. -
BEAM
Best For: Black communities, Black healing justice, community care, peer support tools, wellness circles, trainings, and people looking for mental health resources beyond traditional therapy.
What It Offers: Black Virtual Wellness Directory, wellness tools, healing justice resources, trainings, programs, grants, podcast, and community wellness spaces. BEAM describes itself as a national 501(c)(3) organization that trains, funds, holds healing space, and resources an international network of therapists, wellness practitioners, healing justice efforts, and grassroots wellness initiatives.
How to Use It: Use the Black Virtual Wellness Directory, browse wellness tools, attend events/trainings, or explore programs and healing justice resources.
Cost: Free to browse. Events, trainings, or practitioner services may vary.
Access Options: Directory, wellness tools, trainings, events, grants, podcast, get-help page, community spaces.
Good to Know: Scope: national/international Black wellness and healing justice resource. It is not mainly a live crisis service. -
Melanin & Mental Health
Best For: Black and Latinx people looking for a therapist, culturally familiar mental health content, and a directory centered on clinicians of color.
What It Offers: Therapist directory, resources, “Between Sessions” content, featured therapists, provider listings, and culturally specific mental health education. The site says it is “Changing The Face Of Therapy” and highlights clinicians serving Black and Latinx communities.
How to Use It: Use the “Find A Therapist” directory, browse featured therapists, or read/use the resources.
Cost: Free to search. Provider costs vary.
Access Options: Therapist directory, resource page, content, provider profiles.
Good to Know: Scope: national/online directory with strong Black and Latinx framing. -
Latinx Therapy
Best For: Latinx people looking for Latinx therapists, Spanish-language therapy options, culturally familiar education, immigration-related support resources, podcasts, and wellness tools.
What It Offers: Therapist directory, speaker directory, Spanish therapy search, podcast, resources, blog, courses/workshops, and wellness resources. Latinx Therapy says it provides an online business directory featuring mental health professionals in the Latinx community and describes its directory as national and created by a Latinx therapist/daughter of immigrants.
How to Use It: Search by therapist filters, use the “Terapia en Español” option, explore resources, listen to the podcast, or browse blog posts.
Cost: Free to search and browse some resources. Provider costs vary. Courses, documents, or shop items may cost money.
Access Options: Therapist directory, Spanish therapy option, podcast, resources, blog, courses/workshops, immigration-related resource posts.
Good to Know: Scope: national/online, with Latinx-focused filters and resources. -
Asian Mental Health Collective
Best For: Asian, Asian American, Asian Canadian, immigrant, first-generation, and multiracial Asian users looking for Asian therapists, free therapy funds, support groups, and community mental health support.
What It Offers: Asian therapist directory, therapy funds, community support groups, Subtle Asian Mental Health community, events, blog, and therapist support. AMHC says its directory includes 3,000+ Asian therapists and that its free therapy fund provides 8 sessions of free therapy when applications are open and spots are available.
How to Use It: Browse the therapist directory, apply for therapy funds when open, join support groups, or use the community/blog resources.
Cost: Free to browse. Therapy costs vary by provider. Therapy fund sessions are free for selected applicants when available.
Access Options: Directory, free therapy funds, support groups, blog, events, community spaces.
Good to Know: Scope: U.S. and Canada directory. The therapist directory includes filters for country, state/province, ethnicity, race/culture, language, sex/gender, age group served, therapy format, and treatment focus. -
National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network
Best For: QTBIPOC people looking for providers and healing justice resources rooted in queer, trans, and people-of-color experience.
What It Offers: QTBIPOC directory, community resources, healing justice education, membership program for practitioners, reports, and media/resources. NQTTCN says it is a growing base of health and healing practitioners and organizers working to transform mental health for QTBIPOC, and its directory centers QTBIPOC providers grounded in healing justice.
How to Use It: Use the directory, browse community resources, or learn through the healing justice pages.
Cost: Free to browse. Provider costs vary.
Access Options: Directory, community resources, healing justice education, newsletter, reports.
Good to Know: Scope: national directory/resource network. Donations are tax-deductible through fiscal sponsorship by Possibility Labs, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. -
StrongHearts Native Helpline
Best For: Native American and Alaska Native people dealing with domestic violence, sexual violence, dating violence, unsafe relationships, or needing Native-centered support and advocacy.
What It Offers: 24/7 safe, confidential, anonymous domestic and sexual violence support by phone, text, and chat. Advocates offer peer support, safety planning, crisis intervention, referrals to Native-centered providers, health-option information, and legal advocacy referrals.
How to Use It: Call 1-844-762-8483 / 844-7NATIVE, text 24/7, or use chat.
Cost: Free. Standard text rates may apply.
Access Options: Phone, text, chat, safety alert, ESC quick-hide option, privacy tips.
Good to Know: Scope: national U.S. Native-centered helpline. The site includes a warning that computer use can be monitored and may be impossible to completely clear. -
Call BlackLine
Best For: BIPOC people, especially Black, Indigenous, LGBTQ+, Black femme, trans, disabled, and system-impacted people who want peer support, witnessing, and help naming harm from police, vigilantes, abuse, or systemic violence.
What It Offers: Peer support, counseling, reporting of mistreatment, witnessing, and affirmation for people most impacted by systemic oppression. The site lists 1-800-604-5841 and says Call BlackLine prioritizes BIPOC with an LGBTQ+ Black femme lens.
How to Use It: Call 1-800-604-5841. The site also mentions the Call BlackLine app.
Cost: The site does not clearly list a service fee; phone/text carrier charges may apply.
Access Options: Phone, app, training, resources, contact email.
Good to Know: Scope: national-facing peer support and reporting line. The public site is less clear than 988 or major national hotlines about hours, staffing, and crisis standards, so do not use it as the main emergency resource.