Virginia Mental Health & Community Resource Library
No one heals in a vacuum.
Many of the experiences that shape us are difficult to understand in isolation. Language often comes from encountering someone else's story. Perspective grows through history, community, and lived experience. Care is built not only through professional support, but also through the relationships, movements, and shared knowledge that help us make sense of ourselves and the world around us.
At Phoenix Rising Centers, we see therapy as one part of a broader ecosystem of care.
The organizations, educators, books, podcasts, crisis resources, mutual aid networks, and community initiatives gathered here have informed our clinical work while continually reminding us that healing has always been sustained by communities as much as by individuals. We hope this library offers not only information, but new ways of understanding, connecting, and finding support.
Explore by Topic
Black Mental Health & Liberation
Organizations and collectives centering Black healing, racial justice, collective care, and liberation through community-rooted approaches to mental health.
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Virginia Black Leadership Organizing Collaborative (VA BLOC)
A Black-led grassroots organization building collective power across Virginia through civic engagement, community organizing, racial justice, and leadership development while advancing healthier and more equitable communities.
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Health Brigade
A Richmond-based community health organization providing culturally responsive healthcare, behavioral health services, HIV prevention, and wellness programs while working to reduce health disparities affecting Black and historically marginalized communities.
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The National Center for Black Family Life
Based in Richmond, Virginia, the National Center for Black Family Life strengthens Black families and communities through culturally responsive education, leadership development, fatherhood initiatives, and community-based programming that promotes long-term wellbeing.
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Nolef Turns Inc.
A Richmond-based nonprofit supporting Black youth and families through mentoring, mental wellness programming, leadership development, violence prevention, and community empowerment initiatives.
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BEAM (Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective)
A national healing justice organization that trains community members, funds grassroots initiatives, and builds community-based systems of care rooted in Black wellbeing, collective healing, and liberation.
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Mental Health Liberation
A grassroots, LGBTQ+ BIPOC-led nonprofit grounded in Healing Justice principles that provides therapy funding, peer support, political education, and advocacy while centering Black, Indigenous, and Communities of the Global Majority.
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Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi)
An organization dedicated to advancing Black psychology, promoting culturally grounded approaches to mental health, and supporting the wellbeing of people of African descent through research, education, and advocacy.
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The Loveland Foundation
Provides financial assistance for therapy, healing resources, and wellness initiatives, with a focus on expanding access to mental health care for Black women and girls.
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Kindred Wellness
Founded by Shawna Murray-Browne, Kindred Wellness offers liberation-focused healing, community education, and training that integrates somatics, social justice, and collective wellbeing.
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BlackLine
A peer support and crisis line centering Black, Black LGBTQ+, Brown, Native, and Muslim communities. BlackLine prioritizes peer support, de-escalation, and community care over law enforcement involvement whenever possible.
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Therapy That Liberates
A directory of therapists and healing practitioners trained in Liberation-Focused Healing, centering the experiences of Black and Brown communities through decolonizing and community-rooted approaches to care.
LGBTQ+, Trans & Gender Liberation
Organizations and collectives supporting transgender, nonbinary, queer, and gender-diverse communities through community care, mutual aid, transformative justice, and liberation.
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Equality Virginia
Virginia's largest statewide LGBTQ+ advocacy organization, working to advance equality through policy advocacy, community education, leadership development, and partnerships that strengthen LGBTQ+ communities across the Commonwealth.
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He She Ze and We
A Virginia-based nonprofit supporting transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse communities through peer support, education, advocacy, and community programming that promotes safety, belonging, and self-determination.
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Side by Side
A Richmond-based organization empowering LGBTQ+ youth through affirming support groups, mental health resources, leadership development, and community education across Virginia.
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Virginia Anti-Violence Project
Supports LGBTQ+ survivors of violence through advocacy, education, crisis response, and community organizing while working to prevent violence against queer and trans communities throughout Virginia.
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National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN)
A healing justice organization connecting queer and trans people of color with affirming mental health resources, therapists, and community-based healing initiatives.
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The Okra Project
A mutual aid organization supporting Black transgender people through food, wellness, gender-affirming care, and community-led healing.
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For the Gworls
A Black trans-led mutual aid collective providing emergency financial assistance for housing, gender-affirming healthcare, transportation, and other essential needs.
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Black and Pink National
An abolitionist organization supporting LGBTQIA2S+ people impacted by incarceration through advocacy, reentry support, community organizing, and leadership development.
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Trans Lifeline
A peer support hotline and microgrant program run by and for transgender people, centering community care, autonomy, and mutual support.
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Trans Justice Funding Project
Provides direct funding to grassroots, trans-led organizations across the United States, helping communities build local power and support.
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Transgender Law Center
The largest transgender-led civil rights organization in the United States, advancing trans liberation through legal advocacy, racial justice, movement building, and community self-determination.
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Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP)
Works to ensure that all people can determine their gender identity and expression free from discrimination, with a particular focus on low-income transgender, intersex, and gender nonconforming communities.
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LGBT Life Center
A Virginia-based nonprofit empowering LGBTQ+ communities and people affected by HIV through affirming healthcare, counseling, housing and food assistance, support groups, education, advocacy, and community connection.
lgbtlifecenter.org
Disability Justice
Organizations advancing disability justice through intersectional, anti-racist, queer and trans-led, abolitionist, and community-rooted approaches to liberation.
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Disability Law Center of Virginia (dLCV)
Virginia's federally designated Protection and Advocacy organization, working alongside disabled people to advance civil rights, self-determination, community inclusion, and freedom from institutionalization.
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The Arc of Virginia
A statewide organization advocating for the rights, inclusion, and self-advocacy of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities while supporting community-based living and systems change.
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PEATC (Parent Educational Advocacy Training Center)
A Virginia nonprofit empowering disabled children, youth, and families through advocacy training, education, and leadership development to strengthen inclusive communities and educational equity.
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Disability Law Center of Virginia – Institutional Advocacy
Provides advocacy against abuse, neglect, unnecessary institutionalization, and discrimination while promoting community-based supports and disability rights throughout Virginia.
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Sins Invalid
A Disability Justice movement-building organization led by disabled Black, Indigenous, and People of the Global Majority, as well as queer, trans, and nonbinary disabled people. Through art, education, and organizing, Sins Invalid advances disability justice and collective liberation.
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Disability Visibility Project
Founded by Alice Wong, this community-driven project amplifies the stories, culture, and political leadership of disabled people while centering intersectionality, racial justice, disability culture, and disabled futures.
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Project LETS
A peer-led organization building community-based mental health support beyond coercive systems. Project LETS centers disability justice, peer support, abolition, and alternatives to institutional mental health care.
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HEARD (Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities)
A Deaf-led organization working to end police violence, incarceration, and institutional harm against Deaf and disabled people through abolitionist advocacy, education, and community organizing.
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Fireweed Collective
A healing justice collective offering education, mutual aid, and resources rooted in disability justice, transformative justice, anti-capitalism, and collective care for people navigating trauma, psychiatric disability, and systemic oppression.
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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN)
A grassroots organization run by and for autistic people. Guided by the principle "Nothing About Us Without Us," ASAN advances disability rights, self-determination, and leadership while advocating for systemic change shaped by autistic voices.
autisticadvocacy.org
Indigenous Healing & Sovereignty
Organizations and Indigenous-led movements advancing healing through cultural revitalization, community wellbeing, self-determination, Land Back, and Indigenous sovereignty.