COMMUNITY HEALING ACCESS

Rooted in equity, care, and the belief that everyone deserves support.

There are moments when life feels heavier than your resources.

When grief, stress, anxiety, trauma, or transition are present, but access to care feels blocked by cost, systems, or inequity.

This program exists for those moments.

The Community Healing Access Program was created as a liberation-centered response to gaps in access to mental health care. We recognize that many people experience emotional distress not because something is wrong with them, but because they are navigating systems shaped by oppression, displacement, and historical harm.

Here, healing is not rushed, pathologized, or separated from context.
It is held with dignity, cultural humility, and care for the whole person.

This space if for you if:

  • You are 10 years old or older

  • You currently live in New York State

  • You are uninsured, on Medicaid or Medicare, or unable to financially sustain therapy

  • You have felt unseen, misunderstood, or harmed in traditional mental health spaces

  • You are carrying emotional stress shaped by life experiences and systemic realities

  • You are seeking culturally responsive, holistic, and liberation-centered care

    You do not need to explain or justify your needs.
    You do not need to fit into a narrow model of healing.
    You deserve support that honors your humanity, context, and lived experience.

What the Community Healing Access Program Offers

This program provides up to 12 complimentary therapy sessions with a counseling intern under the supervision of a licensed mental health professional.

Care is offered through a trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, and culturally responsive lens, ensuring that sessions honor each person’s social, cultural, and historical context.

Through this program, you will have space to:
• Process emotional stress, grief, and trauma
• Explore how systems and lived experiences shape your inner world
• Develop grounding, regulation, and coping tools
• Reconnect to your body, values, and sense of agency
• Experience care that centers dignity rather than deficit

This is not charity-based care.
This is community care grounded in accountability, ethics, and respect.

How the Program Works

  1. Schedule your consultation call to discuss needs, assess alignment, and answer any questions

  2. If you are identified as a match, schedule your Introductory call with your assigned therapist

  3. If the decision is made to move forward, complete onboarding & intake paperwork and schedule your ongoing sessions

Enjoy up to 12 complimentary individual therapy sessions
Sessions are facilitated by counseling interns
Interns are closely supervised by a licensed clinician
Care is trauma-informed, holistic, and ethically grounded
Offered virtually to support access to care while prioritizing safety and minimizing unnecessary stress

After completing the complimentary sessions, participants may have the option to:
Continue with their intern therapist at a low sliding scale rate
Transition to another aligned care option within or outside our practice
Conclude services with support, referrals, and next steps

Our goal is continuity, choice and sustainable support.

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Our goal is continuity, choice and sustainable support. 〰️

A Gentle Note About Capacity and Care

Because this program is offered at no cost, space is limited.

  • To help sustain the program and honor collective care, we ask participants to

  • Attend sessions consistently

  • Communicate openly if scheduling challenges arise

  • Engage with intention, respect, and mutual accountability

This allows us to continue offering access to those who need it most.

If this offering resonates, we invite you to