Taraji P. Henson Is Giving Away Free Therapy to Help Us Get Our Minds Right
The actress turned activist launched a virtual therapy campaign to get us through this pandemic
Award-winning actress Taraji P. Henson wants people to know that it’s okay not to be okay, especially right now. A longtime activist, she launched an organization in honor of her late father to break down stigmas around Black mental health care. And now, as we wrestle with the collective traumas of Covid-19 and social distancing, she’s doing what she can to make sure we protect our minds as well as our bodies.
When word got out that her Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation was offering free virtual therapy to mentally and emotionally support Black people living through the tumult of the coronavirus pandemic, the site crashed on the first day. There were that many people trying to register and the need was that urgent.
That was on April 15 and since then, more than 1,000 people have signed up for the Free Virtual Therapy Support Campaign, according to Tracie Jenkins, executive director of the foundation.
It’s exactly the kind of response Henson was hoping to get out of her community, where there is still some stigma around mental health and wellness. The actress shared with ZORA how she…
