George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. Christian Cooper.
Conversations and imagery surrounding police brutality and Black suffering may be prevalent now, but the attention to the matter is long overdue. While this is a step toward a more equitable future in this nation, this emotional conversation can be exhausting, traumatic, triggering, and distressing.
Creative Circle’s Employee Assistance Program, provided by UnitedHealthcare and Optum, is open to all of our candidates and includes a free 24/7 emotional support line (866-342-6892), staffed by professionally-trained mental health experts.
We’ve also gathered mental health and self-care resources to support our Black candidates and the Black creative community during this time, and moving forward.
Apps, Podcasts, Websites
- Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (mental health website)
- Liberate (meditation app)
- The Safe Place (minority mental health app)
- BEAM (emotional health and healing group)
- Ethel’s Club (social and wellness platform)
- Rest for Resistance (website for queer and trans POC)
- Brother, You’re on My Mind (mental health platform)
- Affirm (podcast)
- Imperfectly Phenomenal Women (podcast)
- Therapy for Black Girls (podcast)
Publications, Articles, Toolkits
- Association of Black Psychologists Self-Care Tool Kit (self-care manual)
- Ourselves Black (mental health magazine)
- The Siwe Project (mental health advocacy group)
- Ode to Shea Butter (poem)
- Coping With Anticipatory Grief (article)
- Racial Battle Fatigue: What is it and What are the Symptoms? (article)
- Subversive Self-Care: Centering Black Women’s Wellness (article)
- Self-Care For People of Color After Psychological Trauma (article)
- Racial Trauma in Film: How Viewers Can Address Re-traumatization (article)
- On-Self Recovery (from Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black)
Therapist Directories
- Association of Black Psychologists
- Inclusive Therapists
- LGBTQ Psychotherapists of Color
- National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network
- Psychology Today Directory of African American Therapists
- Melanin and Mental Health
- Therapy for Black Girls
- Therapy for Black Men
Ways to Connect With Other Black People
Here are a few of the many groups out there that facilitate connections and conversations with other Black people:
