The Abundance Therapy Fund
The Root to Crown Abundance Therapy Fund allows community members to assist in sponsoring Black, brown, Indigenous, and people with melanated skin who have financial barriers to receive therapy services from Root to Crown Healing & Wellness, LLC. At Root to Crown, we believe that all humans are deserving of high quality mental health care, and that economic class status should not be a barrier to receiving those services.
During the uprising in the Twin Cities after the traumatic and tragic murder of our ancestor and community member, George Floyd in Minneapolis, MN, there was an undeniable need for race-based trauma services. The initial therapy fund at Root to Crown Healing & Wellness was created to assist the influx of new clients with financial barriers that were seeking services in response to the events in Saint Paul and Minneapolis (trauma and grief reactions, fear, stress, etc). The initial fund raised almost $7,000. Within the first two months, this allowed 30 therapy sessions to be supplemented, and even allowed some individuals who were out of work due to the pandemic to have access to the same high-quality services, free of charge. At the time of writing this (August 2020), 60% of Root to Crown clients identify as BIPOC and benefit from the therapy fund.
There is virtually no part of the United Stated that is unaffected by race-based trauma and racism. The public lynching of George Floyd changed the entire world, and it hit particularly hard in Twin Cities. Root to Crown is a Saint Paul based company on Anishinaabe land, less than 20 minutes from the location where George Floyd was murdered by police, and less than 15 minutes from where Philando Castile was murdered by police. During the pandemic and with the knowledge that BIPOC individuals are at greater risk of dying from COVID due to health and social disparities, Root to Crown is able to service clients all over Minnesota via an online virtual platform.
BIPOC individuals already face many barriers to care and treatment. Some of those barriers include: difficulty in access to a therapist of color due to the limited amount of therapists of color in field, seeing a therapist that understands race-based trauma, being able to afford mental health care, and over coming the cultural stigma to attend therapy.
Cassie (she/her) is a Black mixed-race, pre-licensed, arts-based psychotherapist (art therapist) that practices holistically to meet each client’s needs. She incorporates her training in somatic yoga, reiki, and other modalities to supplement her therapy work with clients. Cassie has dedicated the majority of her career to studying race-based trauma, exploring anti-racism and decolonization work in the mental health field, and implementing strategies into her work to be able to appropriately address the complexities that arise with this type therapeutic work. Cassie delivers culturally competent, high quality, and professional therapy services.
Your financial contributions will contribute to collective healing. None of us can be truly healthy, until all of us are healthy and cared for. Self-care is community care, and every human deserves access to healing and wellness.
There is virtually no part of the United Stated that is unaffected by race-based trauma and racism. The public lynching of George Floyd changed the entire world, and it hit particularly hard in Twin Cities. Root to Crown is a Saint Paul based company on Anishinaabe land, less than 20 minutes from the location where George Floyd was murdered by police, and less than 15 minutes from where Philando Castile was murdered by police. During the pandemic and with the knowledge that BIPOC individuals are at greater risk of dying from COVID due to health and social disparities, Root to Crown is able to service clients all over Minnesota via an online virtual platform.
BIPOC individuals already face many barriers to care and treatment. Some of those barriers include: difficulty in access to a therapist of color due to the limited amount of therapists of color in field, seeing a therapist that understands race-based trauma, being able to afford mental health care, and over coming the cultural stigma to attend therapy.
Cassie (she/her) is a Black mixed-race, pre-licensed, arts-based psychotherapist (art therapist) that practices holistically to meet each client’s needs. She incorporates her training in somatic yoga, reiki, and other modalities to supplement her therapy work with clients. Cassie has dedicated the majority of her career to studying race-based trauma, exploring anti-racism and decolonization work in the mental health field, and implementing strategies into her work to be able to appropriately address the complexities that arise with this type therapeutic work. Cassie delivers culturally competent, high quality, and professional therapy services.
Your financial contributions will contribute to collective healing. None of us can be truly healthy, until all of us are healthy and cared for. Self-care is community care, and every human deserves access to healing and wellness.
Unable to commit to making a recurring monthly, quarterly, or yearly contribution? You can make a one-time contribution below.