15 Directories to Find Inclusive Therapists for Your Healing Journey
Did you know 80 percent of folks who struggle with an eating disorder don’t receive treatment? This is in large part why we do what we do here at Project HEAL, and there are a few reasons for this disparity, such as:
Financial barriers
Fear of shame and stigma
Lack of identity-affirming, culturally-sensitive care
This list of directories is meant to tackle that last challenge: lack of proper care. Specifically, therapy for marginalized communities. Research shows that these folks are more likely to report obstacles in finding a therapist who reflects and connects with their lived experience.
You deserve to access the help you need from a clinician whom you feel safe to heal with, which is why we did some research for you. Here are 15 online directories to find a therapist with whom you feel fully safe, seen, and heard.
Inclusive Therapists
The Inclusive Therapists directory allows you to search for mental health professionals based on a variety of filters such as the provider’s race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender expression, faith tradition, or other specific identity markers.
You can also refine the search to find clinicians who specialize in certain areas of advocacy, like decolonization, neurodivergence, or body liberation. If you’re looking for virtual sessions or sliding scale payment, this resource makes it easy to locate therapists who meet those criteria as well.
Asian Mental Health Collective
The Asian Mental Health Collective (AMHC) features a database of therapists across the Asian diaspora, serving clients in both the U.S. and Canada. AMHC was created to meet the complex, often overlooked mental health needs of those in Asian communities who face intergenerational trauma, acculturation, immigration, and “model minority” perfectionism.
You can also use this platform to search based on a therapist’s location, treatment focus, cost, and insurance, gender or sexual orientation, and linguistic or ethnic background.
Therapy for Black Girls
Therapy for Black Girls is a culturally responsive resource for Black women, girls, and femmes to locate a provider who shares their racial identity. Just choose the mental health concerns you want to heal from, select an insurance network (if applicable), then scroll through this extensive database of Black women therapists in the U.S. and Canada.
There’s even an option to search for pro bono sessions to remove some of the financial barriers that might have prevented you from being able to access treatment in the past.
Therapists of Color Collaborative
Therapists of Color Collaborative is on a mission to advance racial equity and inclusion within mental health care models. This platform matches you with trauma-informed BIPOC clinicians based on the information you share in a virtual questionnaire.
You’ll receive a list of therapists whose services and areas of expertise are tailored to your responses. From there, you can schedule a free phone consultation with each of these practitioners to determine who you feel most comfortable and compatible with moving forward.
Latinx Therapy
Latinx Therapy offers a bilingual platform to search for telehealth and in-person Latinx mental health providers across the United States.
Latinx folks are often misrepresented in eating disorder recovery spaces, but this resource will help connect you with professionals who not only validate but can also relate to your nuanced cultural experiences.
You can also filter the results to look for therapists who specialize in certain modalities (such as ancestral healing), queer-affirming practices, or immigration statuses.
Trans Lifeline
The Trans Lifeline has a database of thoroughly vetted trans-competent clinicians outside the mainstream psychiatric model, which can be harmful to transgender or nonbinary folks. If you need a therapist who understands how body image issues and eating disorder behaviors can uniquely manifest in trans folks, this resource is an excellent place to start.
The Trans Lifeline also runs a free, confidential, bilingual hotline—operated by trans crisis responders—which you can either call or text on Monday through Friday.
Mental Health Match
Mental Health Match connects you with diverse therapists in your location who align with your personal identities, values, and experiences. You can also narrow the search results based on racial or cultural background, belief system, gender or sexual orientation, treatment specialties or modalities, insurance network, and hourly rates.
Therapists also create their own profiles on Mental Health Match, so you can reach out to them directly through the platform to initiate a consultation and embark on your healing process.
Association for Size Diversity & Health
The Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH) maintains a comprehensive listing of Health at Every Size-trained therapists, dietitians, nutritionists, and physicians. If you’re looking for a practitioner who treats eating disorder symptoms from an inclusive, weight-neutral lens, this is the resource for you.
All providers are rigorously screened to ensure they adhere to the Health at Every Size care framework. You can also choose a therapist using filters like disabled, fat-positive, person of color, LGBTQIA+, or neurodiverse.
Eating Disorder Registered Dietitians & Professionals
The Eating Disorder Registered Dietitians and Professionals (EDRDPro) database helps you locate clinicians in your area who offer weight-neutral, size-inclusive treatment for numerous eating disorders and other co-occurring mental health conditions.
Whether you struggle with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, or avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), this resource will point you in the right direction. If you want a practitioner who identifies as BIPOC, queer, or trauma-informed, you can indicate that, too.
Clinicians of Color
Clinicians of Color makes it easy to find therapists who share your race and ethnicity—whether you’re Black, Asian, Latinx, Indigenous, Middle Eastern, or Biracial.
You can narrow the search results even more based on a provider’s location, rates, insurance, treatment focus, and session format (in-person, video, or phone) to ensure culturally responsive care at an affordable cost in whichever environment you feel most secure.
Clinicians of Color features trans- and queer-affirming therapists as well.
MyWellbeing
MyWellbeing allows you to choose a mental health professional from a wide range of specialties or modalities, from intrusive thoughts and poor body image to creative arts therapy and somatic experiencing.
This directory also gives you the option to search for providers with certain gender expressions, cultural identities, sexual orientations, or faith traditions.
Each clinician’s profile on MyWellbeing specifies which insurance networks they’re in and whether they offer sliding scale rates to help you make an informed, cost-effective decision.
FEDUP Collective
FEDUP Collective is an organization that calls out the high prevalence rate of eating disorders within gender-diverse communities. This platform features a list of FEDUP-approved clinicians with intersex-, nonbinary-, and trans-affirming practices, along with links to their websites and contact information, so you can reach out to these therapists directly.
FEDUP Collective also runs two free virtual support groups for trans or gender-expansive adults in eating disorder recovery (including one just for BIPOC folks).
National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network
The National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN) centers the nuanced, intersectional mental health needs of LGBTQIA+ folks of color. NQTTCN views healing as a social justice imperative and carefully vets each practitioner to ensure you find a therapist who recognizes the role of systemic discrimination in body image issues, unresolved trauma, or relationships with food.
Every profile in this database shows you the therapist’s race, gender, pronouns, sexual orientation, credentials, and hourly rate.
Open Path Psychotherapy Collective
The Open Path Psychotherapy Collective is on a mission to create wider access to inclusive, trauma-informed clinicians who specialize in eating disorder treatment without costly financial barriers.
Each therapist in this directory commits to a sliding scale rate of $30–$70 per session, and you can sort through over 3,000 mental health professionals based on race or ethnicity, area of expertise (e.g. Health at Every Size, Intuitive Eating, Body Liberation), gender or sexual orientation, languages spoken, and other identity markers.
Melanin & Mental Health
Melanin and Mental Health was built for BIPOC folks searching for a Black or Latinx therapist who intimately understands how their specific racial and cultural experiences, traumas, or stigmas can influence eating disorder behaviors.
Aside from race, you can also narrow the results to find a practitioner who meets your criteria for location, session format, specialization, and languages spoken (even ASL for deaf clients). In between therapy sessions, check out Melanin and Mental Health’s podcast and virtual webinars, too.
Treatment Barriers Are Real—But Healing Is Possible
Ready to embark on the healing process without the systemic obstacles that can make help feel unaffordable and inaccessible?
At Project HEAL, we’re on a mission to eliminate the financial barriers and non-inclusive care models from eating disorder treatment. Our goal is to ensure you can heal with the support of a licensed mental health clinician who affirms all the diverse facets of your unique personal identity. Reach out to learn more about our treatment access programs.
