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Category: BIPOC

Building Your Chosen Family: Creating Supportive Networks

By Marquita Bolden

For many in marginalized communities, chosen family isn’t just meaningful—it’s essential for survival and thriving. Unlike biological families, chosen families are the people we deliberately select to share our lives with, offering mutual support, understanding, and unconditional love. Whether you’re beginning to build your support network or strengthening existing relationships, learn practical strategies for creating the chosen family that will nurture your authentic self, set healthy boundaries, and provide the deep connections we all deserve.

The Healing Power of Feminist Approaches to Black Mental Health

By therapycenteradmin

As Black History Month concludes, we celebrate the powerful intersection of feminist principles and Black mental health. Feminist approaches recognize that our personal struggles connect to broader social contexts, validating rather than pathologizing our responses to oppression. Black feminist thought—through visionaries like bell hooks and Audre Lorde—offers transformative frameworks emphasizing self-definition, joy as resistance, emotional wholeness beyond the “strong Black woman” stereotype, and community healing. We’re witnessing encouraging progress as these principles integrate into mental health services through culturally responsive care, Black feminist practices, and accessible payment models based on economic justice. This feminist vision for Black mental health carries inherent hope—acknowledging oppression while affirming our capacity for both personal and collective transformation, creating approaches that don’t merely help us survive systems of oppression but support us in flourishing beyond them.

A Message of Solidarity and Support

By therapycenteradmin

A heartfelt message of solidarity and support from the Therapy Center of Philadelphia, reaffirming our commitment to providing a safe, affirming therapeutic space for our Trans, Non-Binary, Gender-Expansive, BIPOC, and women/femme community members during uncertain times. TCP stands ready to expand our services while maintaining our foundation of love in action through caring, identity-affirming therapy.

As a Black-led organization, TCP stands in solidarity with the Black community during this time of deep racial trauma…

By therapycenteradmin

We are enraged and grief-stricken by the murders of Breonna Taylor, Nina Pop, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Tony McDade. We unapologetically support justice for our Black community members, who are only the latest casualties in a lengthy line of Black folx and Black institutions that have been terrorized by white supremacist violence for hundreds of years. Black folx, we see you and we love you. At TCP, we are proud to reaffirm that we hold anti-racism and Black liberation as core values. We understand that for an organization to strive to disrupt anti-blackness and white supremacy, we need to look inward at our own belief systems, policies and practices, and identities. TCP will continue to challenge ourselves to engage in ongoing racial identity work. We will continue to center Black and Brown voices in cross-racial conversations about race, and create an environment for healing through racial trauma. We hold our white community members accountable in their commitment to creating a more socially just organization through action and cultural humility. We will continue to hold ourselves out as imperfect vessels of racial equity work, with a deep understanding that it starts and ends with us. We encourage you to do racial equity work from where you are, however you can.