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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.
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
- Know that our feelings are real and warranted.
- Our feelings have emerged out of 400+ years of systemic racial oppression rooted in the lie that Black people are inferior to White people.
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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