20+ Bipoc Mental Health Resources for Culturally-Sensitive Support

Getting effective BIPOC mental health support requires the understanding and expertise of people who understand the unique challenges you face. While there are more and more organizations that make this possible, it can be exhausting to comb through Google to find what you need.

That’s why we put together this big list of resources, podcasts, websites, and programs for you! Find what you need below and make sure you send this list to anyone who could benefit from it as well.

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Find Resources for Your Unique Mental Health Needs

Those who identify as BIPOC have unique mental health needs, specific to past experiences, culture, and sexual preferences. We’ve rounded up some organizations, helplines, groups, and community spaces that may be able to better address the mental health support and guidance that you need as a BIPOC individual.

BIPOC Youth

• AAKOMA Connects and Events

• The Safe Place App

AAPI

• Asian American Health Initiative Resources

• Desi LGBTQ+ Helpline for ​South Asians and Resources and Local Groups

• Asians Do Therapy

• ThriveSpice Podcast

• The Full Well Podcast

Black and African American

• Black Emotional Mental Health Collective Peer Support Spaces and Wellness Tools

• Black Girls Smile Mental Wellness ToolKit

• Call Black Line

• Therapy for Black Men

• Therapy for Black Girls Therapy Directory and Sister Circle

• Black Doctors Speak podcast

Native and Indigenous

• Paths Remembered Project Resources

• StrongHearts Native Helpline

• WE R NATIVE MyMind Resource Library and mental health text subscription: text CARING to 65664

• Center for Native American Youth Resource Hub

• All My Relations Podcast

• Tribal Health Podcast

Latinx and Hispanic

• Therapy for Latinx

• Latinx Therapy Directory and Podcast

• Latinx Therapists Action Network

• National Latino Behavioral Health Association Mental Health Toolkit

Trans BIPOC

• Trans Lifeline

• National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network Directory and Helplines and Resources

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BIPOC Mental Health Resources for Everyone

These organizations provide access to culturally-affirming support, stories, and communities that support BIPOC mental health. 

Inclusive Therapists

If you’ve struggled to find a mental health professional who understands your unique challenges and needs, this mental health directory may be what you’re looking for. It offers a “safer, simpler way to find a therapist, counselor or coach committed to collective liberation and healing: Racial, 2SLGBTQIA+, Neurodivergence, and Disability Justice.”

BIPOC Voices from Mental Health America

Hearing the stories of others who get what you’re feeling—or have been where you have been—is powerful. That’s why we love this resource from Mental Health America featuring blog posts and videos from BIPOC youth who are powerfully sharing their personal stories and experiences.

Project HEAL

Our mission at Project HEAL is to open doors to healing for those the system fails. This means we provide access to services and resources for anyone and everyone struggling with disordered eating or an eating disorder, especially those who lack the resources to get that help themselves or feel they can’t ask for it. 

Find what you need:

• Blog: Read about people just like yourself sharing stories of struggle and triumph.

• Find a Program: Figure out how we can best help you by starting here if you need eating disorder support.

• Insurance Resource Hub: Better understand all things insurance and eating disorder healing with this much-needed resource.

• Newsletter: Get support, news, and updates delivered to your inbox.

• Instagram: This is where we’re most active on social and we’d love to have you in our Instagram community!

You can also head to the top of our website and click “Learn” to find all of our guides, ranging from learning about eating disorders to better understanding treatment barriers.

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