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FIND A BLACK MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS PROFESSIONAL

If you require any assistance in finding a psychologist, please use our Directory. (click here)

This listing is comprised of Black Mental Health and Wellness Professionals who have elected to participate in our referral listing program. The Association of Black Psychologists does not verify the license, skills, or experience of those listed. Therefore, we strongly suggest that you use this directory as you would a telephone directory, simply to locate mental health professionals in your community. Once you locate a professional, it is your responsibility to investigate their background to confirm licensing compliance and ensure that there is no history of complaints or disciplinary problems with their professional licensing board.

ABPsi Global Institute

Volunteer Opportunity

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Join ABPsi in pioneering psychological excellence worldwide! ABPsi is seeking visionary individuals to assume the pivotal roles of Chairperson and Co-Chairperson, guiding the Institute towards its mission of scholarly excellence and global impact.

If you are interested in serving as a committee member, send your statement of interest and resume or CV to President Sharon Bethea at globalinstitute@abpsi.org using the subject line Committee Member.

Insurance Programs for Psychologists

Established in 1962, The Trust is the leading provider of professional liability, financial security and risk management programs for psychologists and psychology students nationwide.

ABPsi members can save up to 25% when they switch to The Trust. This includes a 10% discount for switching your professional liability policy from another insurance carrier, plus a 15% discount when you combine 6 CE credits from any of The Trust’s qualifying live or on-demand webinars (simply submit your certificates when you apply). Student liability policies are only $35/year.

988
and the
National Suicide Crisis Line

  • About 988

988 offers 24/7 access to trained crisis counselors who can help people experiencing mental health-related distress. That could be:

  • – Thoughts of suicide
    – Mental health or substance use crisis, or
    – Any other kind of emotion distress
    – People can call or text 988 or chat 988lifeline.org for themselves or if they are worried about a loved one who may need crisis support.

988 serves as a universal entry point so that no matter where you live in the United States, you can reach a trained crisis counselor who can help.

“African people throughout the world have a worldview that is conceived as a universal oneness. There is interconnection of all things that compose the Universe.”~Na’im Akbar

  1. Know that our feelings are real and warranted.
  2. Our feelings have emerged out of 400+ years of systemic racial oppression rooted in the lie that Black people are inferior to White people.
  3. We cannot overcome this oppression overnight, but, as a community of elders and young people, we can work together to free ourselves emotionally ­­and completely. None but ourselves can free our minds!
  4. We need to respect and understand the psychological and emotional effects of racial oppression so that we do not fall into traps laid for us by the system­­­ and hurt ourselves and/or loved ones.
  5. The first step toward healing is to acknowledge the systemic racial trauma, stress, anger, pain, frustration, and hurt that we are experiencing, and recognize how they might affect our feelings, our thinking, our actions, and our interactions.
  6. If we understand how the system of racial oppression affects us, then we can strategically and collectively take the necessary steps to short­ circuit the system; taking full control of our hearts and our minds­­ acting instead of reacting.
  7. One way to begin to do this is to honestly and sincerely ask ourselves with respect to everything we do, “is this good for me and is this good for Black people.” If the answer is no, don’t do it.
For more support please download our Family­Care, Community­Care and Self­Care Tool Kit: Healing in the Face of Cultural Trauma for more information.
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This Tool Kit is for us—developed by and for people of African ancestry­­ to comfort and inspire us in these difficult times. It provides resources to help us take care of ourselves and each other, and strengthen our sense of community for the journey ahead. This moment of crisis is also a moment of great opportunity. The Black community has been through a lot lately. But these events are just the most recent in an ongoing assault on our humanity that began more than 400 years ago in enslavement, with the telling of the poisonous lies of White superiority and Black inferiority. We believe that these lies are the root causes of the devaluing of Black lives and nearly all the other challenges we face as a people. Now is the time to strike at the heart of these lies with all of our might­­ by working together to free ourselves, our children, and the world from them once and for all. Four hundred years of dehumanization are enough. Marcus Garvey said. “We have a beautiful history and we shall create another in the future that will astonish the world.” We will. Now is our time!

Video Resources

Culturally – Informed Strategies for Managing Death Transitions of Loved Ones.

1619 to Ferguson to Now: Black Lives Moving Forward

Graduate School Application Process (Psychology Programs)

Political Activism

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