Healing should never be a luxury.
Help us keep the door open for trans, queer, neurodivergent, and other intentionally-made-vulnerable folks who need therapy — regardless of what they can pay.
The Support Mental Health Access Fund makes sliding-scale and pro bono therapy possible at Soma Roots Therapy.
Mental health care in this country was built to be expensive, gatekept, and out of reach for the people who carry the most. We refuse to accept that. Every dollar to this fund goes directly toward lowering the cost of care — or removing it entirely — for clients who would otherwise go without. This is community care in practice: those with more holding the door open for those with less.
What your support pays for
Sliding-scale sessions
Subsidizes the gap between what a client can afford and what a session actually costs — so fees flex to real lives, not the other way around.
Pro bono care
Funds fully no-cost therapy for folks in crisis or financial hardship who can’t pay anything right now and still deserve support.
Continuity of care
Keeps existing clients in therapy when income drops, insurance falls through, or life gets harder — no one dropped for money alone.
Access for the overlooked
Prioritizes trans, queer, neurodivergent, BIPOC, and disabled folks — the communities systems work overtime to keep out.
Rooted in community care & decolonial practice
We don’t see this fund as charity. Charity flows down and keeps power where it is. Community care moves sideways — it’s mutual, it’s redistributive, and it refuses the idea that healing is something you earn by being wealthy enough to afford it. Decolonial practice means naming that the barriers our clients face — cost, gatekeeping, pathologizing, the demand to translate yourself to be understood — were built on purpose, and choosing to build something different.
“Your access to healing shouldn’t depend on your proximity to wealth.”
Where your gift goes
A little adds up fast when it goes straight to care. Here’s the kind of impact your support creates:
- A one-time gift can cover the subsidized portion of a sliding-scale session for someone who’d otherwise cancel.
- A monthly contribution helps hold a pro bono spot open month after month, so care doesn’t stop when funding runs dry.
- Recurring community support lets us say “yes” to more clients in hardship without putting anyone on a waitlist for affordability.
- Every amount — $5 or $150 — keeps therapy reachable for the people who need it most and can access it least.
Become an ongoing supporter
Monthly members are the soil this work grows in. Pick a tier that fits — cancel anytime.
Seed Keeper
Plant the possibility of accessible care.
Soil Builder
Build the ground that affordable therapy grows from.
Root Tender
Help sustain pro bono spots month to month.
Liberation Patron
Power access at scale for the overlooked.
Hold the door open with us.
Whether it’s a one-time coffee or a monthly pledge, your support becomes therapy someone can actually afford. That’s the whole point.
100% of contributions to this fund go toward sliding-scale and pro bono therapy at Soma Roots Therapy. Donations are made through Buy Me A Coffee and are not tax-deductible. Questions? Email info@somarootstherapy.com.