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Aug 11 2025
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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.

Jul 27 2025
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When the Headlines Hit Home: How Current Events Affect Your Mental Health

By Marquita Bolden

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or exhausted by the news lately, you’re not alone. When we see anti-trans laws passing, DEI programs being eliminated, ICE raids in our communities, or “religious freedom” bills being used to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people, these events hit differently for those of us in marginalized communities. They’re not just political news—they feel personal because they are personal.

Your reactions to current events are completely normal. When you see headlines about laws that could affect your rights, your safety, or your ability to get basic services, your brain treats this as a real threat. Your nervous system doesn’t distinguish between physical danger and social or political threats—it just knows something that matters to you is under attack.

Understanding why current events affect your mental health so deeply can help you be gentler with yourself while developing practical tools to stay engaged with the world around you without burning out.

Jun 29 2025
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The Fierce Joy of Being Ourselves: Celebrating Queer Joy at Pride’s End

By Marquita Bolden

As Pride Month ends, we want to talk about something that doesn’t get nearly enough airtime: the pure, unapologetic, revolutionary joy of being queer. Forget the rainbow capitalism—we’re talking about the real thing. The joy that bubbles up when you finally get to be yourself. The giddiness of realizing you’re surrounded by people who get it. The belly laugh with chosen family who know you completely. In a world that often tells queer people we should be ashamed, choosing joy is radical. Every time we celebrate our relationships, our identities, our communities—we’re rejecting the narrative that there’s something wrong with us…

Jan 28 2025
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Standing Together: TCP’s Commitment to Our Community

By therapycenteradmin

In response to recent executive orders affecting marginalized communities, TCP reaffirms its dedication to providing inclusive mental health care. This message emphasizes TCP’s 50-year commitment to supporting clients through social and political challenges, particularly transgender, gender-expansive, and immigrant communities. The post reinforces TCP’s mission of offering trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and gender-affirming therapy, reminding clients that their therapy rooms remain safe spaces where all identities are respected and validated.

Dec 18 2024
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Finding Peace: A Holiday Guide for the TCP Community

By therapycenteradmin

The holiday season brings unique challenges for women, transgender, and gender-expansive individuals navigating complex family dynamics, cultural expectations, and personal boundaries. This guide explores practical strategies for maintaining emotional well-being during the holidays while honoring your authentic identity. From managing gender expression at family gatherings to creating new traditions that celebrate your whole self, discover supportive approaches to find peace and joy on your own terms this season.

Dec 03 2024
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Giving Tuesday

By therapycenteradmin

TCP provides vital mental health services to women and gender-expansive people in Philadelphia through sliding-scale therapy starting at $30 per session. As we expand to accept Medicaid and additional insurance providers, we need community support to maintain our accessible care model that achieves a 92% client retention rate. This Giving Tuesday, your donation helps ensure culturally-competent, affirming therapy remains available to those who need it most, regardless of ability to pay.
The excerpt maintains the key points about TCP’s mission, their current expansion efforts, and the Giving Tuesday call-to-action, while being brief enough to serve as an effective preview of the full post.

Nov 26 2024
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A Closer Look at Feminist Therapy: Empowerment Through Understanding

By therapycenteradmin

Feminist therapy offers a uniquely empowering approach to mental health care that goes beyond traditional therapeutic models. Rather than viewing challenges solely through an individual lens, it creates space to understand how our experiences connect to the broader social world. Through collaborative relationships between therapist and client, this approach weaves together personal wisdom with deep insights about how gender, culture, and social structures shape our mental health journeys. By honoring both individual experiences and systemic influences, feminist therapy provides powerful tools for healing from trauma, building authentic self-confidence, and creating meaningful change. While its roots lie in the women’s movement, today’s feminist therapy welcomes people of all genders and backgrounds, offering particular support for those who have faced marginalization or seek to understand their experiences in a wider context.

Nov 12 2024
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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.

Jun 04 2020
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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.