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Chicago Therapy Collective (CTC) promotes citywide action to alleviate LGBTQIA2S mental health disparities and advance queer liberation through healing, learning, and cultural change.
Our flagship campaign, Trans-Inclusive Chicago, focuses on uplifting Trans communities and challenges Chicago organizations to Get Trained, Get Feedback and Hire Trans Now. Additionally, we invite Chicagoans to join us for our Trans Art Is performance nights and art exhibitions, which celebrate local Trans artists and their vital role in cultural change.
Learn more about our initiatives to eradicate Trans communities’ health disparities.
We aim to be locally focused and partnership oriented to effect sustainable and meaningful change. As an Andersonville based nonprofit, we work to foster intersectional Trans-Inclusion in Andersonville and surrounding northside neighborhoods. We have also been building partnerships across the city with other LGBTQIA2S nonprofits, political representatives, and ally organizations to collaborate on programming, share resources, and maximize impact where possible.
At the neighborhood level, we curate highly individualized opportunities for:
(1) neighbors and businesses to deepen their awareness, understanding, and investment in T/GNC people, especially QTPOC, already in their lives;
(2) for allies to center, celebrate, and compensate T/GNC people at the local level; and
(3) for communities, businesses, and individuals to move toward increased engagement and capacity for inclusivity through improved knowledge, empathy, and practical skills–to everyone’s benefit!
CTC’s mission is rooted in the intimate awareness apparent in therapy and other humanistic disciplines that the mental health struggles of LGBTQIA people, especially QTBIPOC (Queer Trans Black Indigenous People of Color), are the result of systemic, intersecting injustices that need attention beyond the therapy room and within the relationships, organizations and communities to which those QTBIPOC community members belong.
Complex systemic struggles such as the ones QTBIPOC community memebers experience require multi-faceted interdisciplinary interventions and widespread support. Through therapy, training, activism and the arts, CTC strives to provide a creative path forward for improving minority mental health.
Since 2018, CTC has produced numerous art exhibitions, performance and storytelling nights, direct action and advocacy events, and tailored training and consultations that center the leadership and lived experiences of QTBIPOC community members. To inspire collective, cross-community engagement and action, CTC encourages neighbors, coworkers, friends and loved ones to join the Collective and support collective efforts in building a more safe, just and inclusive Chicago for QTBIPOC communities.
Do you or your organization have a mobilization or an idea for a mobilization that supports LGBTQIA2S or other minority groups’ mental health in your community? Let’s talk about partnership! We are available for both one-time and ongoing partnerships that foster minority mental health and wellbeing and across communities. Contact [email protected]
