Mental Health Resources for LGBTQIA+ Artists
In celebration of Pride, and our Trans, Non-Binary, and all other LGBTQIA+ artists, we have worked to curate a list of resources that we feel can serve as safe spaces for our LGBTQIA+ artists.
These are resources, spaces, and therapists that have been personally recommended to us by LGBTQIA+ identifying individuals and/or researched and vetted by the IndieSpace team. Our goal is to continue to grow this list over the time and establish an affordable, accessible, and nurturing network of support for LGBTQIA+ theater artists.
As part of our on-going work to uplift Black joy and Black mental health in our community we have also highlighted some resources and healing spaces for BIPOC and Black artists in this list as well.
Therapists
Olive Daddi, LMSW (They/Them/Theirs)
Specialized in working with transgender, gender non-conforming and nonbinary, and LGBTQ+ identified adult individuals and couples seeking therapy for issues related to gender, sexuality, and other intersections of experience and identity such as socio-economic status, race and ethnicity, (dis)ability, spirituality, migration, family history, and substance use.
Sabrina Sarro, LMSW, C-DBT, CTP (They/Them/Theirs)
Sabrina is a Black/Haitian mixed-race non-binary/trans* queer human and spirit exfoliator. They are also a PCOS and vulvo-vaginal specialist and therapist, and am most interested in supporting their clients through chronic pelvic pain, painful sex, and other uro-genital experiences. Sabrina offers a special container for chronically-ill BIPOC/TGNC/Queer folx, and prioritizes helping their clients find and further cultivate healing and sanctuary in their bodies and supporting them in living lives that are pain-free.
Pia C. Johnson, LMSW (She/Her/Hers)
With over 20 years of experience, Pia has worked with a wide range of individuals, specifically LGBTQ singles and couples. She uses a straight forward, holistic, collaborative, and supportive approach to help you understand and work through your struggles.
Healing Spaces
Brooklyn-based wellness center offering virtual and in-person yoga, mediation, and body workshops. They also offer private yoga sessions, energy coaching, holistic medicine, and lunar oracle.
New York City’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center empowers people to lead healthy, successful lives. The Center celebrates our diversity and advocates for justice and opportunity.
Other Resources
National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network
An interactive digital mental health directory of therapists and mental health providers that specifically serve the queer and trans community.
bklyn boihood started in Bedford Stuyvesant in 2009, with two friends, a couch and a desire to feel seen and understood as masculine-of-center queer and trans people of color. A project that meant to make the subjects feel handsome and beautiful and an opportunity to showcase our community’s brilliant photographers and designers - we host critical workshops exploring our role in redefining what masculinity is, bike rides, and go on annual retreats and camping trips for our whole community to participate. bbh is a love-driven crew of bois, trying to make waves of impact through the world.
Circle of Voices, Inc. is a non-profit Womyn of African Descent and Womyn of Color organization that produces multi-cultural events of an artistic nature as nourishment for the human spirit. We provide a creative arts environment where Womyn of all orientations can exchange information, her-stories, knowledge, and skills amongst each other, and our communities, through performances, workshops, music festivals, and seminars that express issues affecting our environments.
planet queer is an inclusive and affirming community space were everyone is celebrated. We host monthly events and parties celebrating and showcasing drag artists of all genders and LGBTQIA+ djs.
Funding program that supports mental health needs for Black men by matching them with one of their in network therapists of color and covering the cost of up to 8 therapy sessions. (application required)
An online network that connects minority communities—specifically Latinx and Black people—to mental health services. The network provides a directory of culturally competent therapists.