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Mental & Emotional Well-being
THERAPY BEYOND THE COUCH
Finding a therapist can be difficult, particularly at a moment when you’re feeling most anxious or lost. Figuring out who to see, and then checking in with yourself about whether they are the right fit, can feel bewildering, even exhausting.
We’ve been there: looking over lists of names, arranging the first meet-up, wondering whether something was off in the relationship or whether it was just ‘our material’. If you end an ill-fitting arrangement, it can be hard to then have the energy to find someone new to work with. Many times we gave up until the issue that pushed us to seek therapy could no longer go unheeded and we tried again. We knew when we’d found the right therapist, and we ultimately discovered who we wanted to work with, but there were some dead-ends and frustrations on the way there.
Often it's exactly this match-making piece that is the barrier to entry for someone seeking help. There are others — around cost, cultural sensitivity, access, and belief systems — but here we’re going to focus on how you can find the right therapist and how they can find you. Over the last few years entrepreneurs, mental health practitioners, and even the tech industry have noticed this issue too. Below we’ve pulled together some of the new services that have been emerging, ones designed to get you to the right person when you most need it, and in ways that feel very different from what has gone before.
UK
The Chelsea Psychology Clinic (London) | Cuddle Club (London) | Harley Therapy (London)| Humen Space (London) | Operation Centaur (London) | Project Walk to Talk (London) | Mental Health Mates | Meraki Creative Therapies (Guildford) | The School of Life (London) | Self Space (London) | The Soke (London) | Talk Club | Womankind (Bristol)
US
Alma | Asian Mental Health Collective | Attitudinal Healing (Oakland, California) | BFF Therapy | Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective | Black Men Heal | Black Minds Matter| | Latinx Therapy |National Queer and Trans Therapists of Colour Network | Okay Humans (Los Angeles, Califonia) | Queer Life Space (San Francisco, Calfornia) | Melanin and Mental Health | Real | Run Walk Talk (California) | Sad Girls Club | Therapy for Black Girls | Therapy for Black Men | Therapy for Women Center (Philadelphia)
Worldwide
Inner Psych | The Clearing Barrel (Berlin, Germany)
Even if these locations are not in your region, often therapists now offer services online. So if there’s somewhere that feels good to you, see if they have sessions over Zoom.
We invite you to think about what therapy could mean to you. What could it offer you? How might you think about accessing this in your life, and in what shape or form would that take?
There are other modalities like coaching (covered here), counseling, and mentoring that you could also seek out for support.
Please note that inclusion in this list does not mean we’ve tried all these services. These are some that we’re interested in and that seems to align with our values. We offer them to you as a starting point.
Do let us know if you have others to add so we can continue to grow this list