Louisville Metro's Office of Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods (OSHN) is trying something new, offering free therapy sessions through October.
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The pandemic and racial justice protests last year have contributed to unique mental health challenges among African Americans and other minorities, experts say, including a rising demand for counseling and other professional help.
Erica Reevey is a licensed clinical social worker and a co-founder of the Black Counseling and Consulting Collective.
Steven D. Kniffley Jr. is an associate professor at Spalding University’s School of Professional Psychology and the coordinator of the university’s Collective Care Center, a racial trauma clinic.
Candice Hargons is an associate professor in the University of Kentucky’s Department of Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology and the founding director of the Center for Healing Racial Trauma.
Rev. Tim Finley Jr. is the senior pastor of Kingdom Fellowship Christian Life Center in Louisville. He has been referring more members of his congregation to therapy since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and racial justice protests.
The conversation will serve as a space for participants to "develop an understanding and an awareness of the impact race-based stress and trauma can have."