Therapy & Counseling

Resources to help you access mental healthcare and wellness.

  • Sista Afya Community Mental Wellness

    Provides free and low-cost mental wellness/therapy for Black women.

    Email: communitycare@sistaafya.com. Website

  • LaShawn Etheridge, LCSW

    Experienced Chicago-based therapist working to see healed people and whole communities by helping people gain insight into how what’s happened to them affects their daily functioning and how systems of oppression impact wellness. Specialties include working with parents and children who have experienced trauma due to family separation and involvement with DCFS, mood disorders, grief, co-parenting difficulties, and parent-child issues.

    Certified in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), Child-Parent Psychotherapy, and Nurturing Parenting Program.

    Contact LaShawn at 224-236-2581 or by emailing lashawnlcsw@gmail.com.

  • For more therapy and counseling resources...

    …check out this Resource Guide from EveryMom Chicago.