Clinicians of Color Directory

What It Is

Clinicians of Color is a directory and professional network for therapists of color. The organization was founded in 2016 as a Facebook group to help therapists of color start or grow a private practice and provide clinical training. The Facebook group now has over 12,000 members and serves as a peer support and professional development community. The web-based directory, separate from the Facebook group, allows anyone to search for therapists and other mental health clinicians of color across the United States by location, treatment style, insurance and other criteria.

The directory's mission centers on visibility and matching. The site's tagline frames its purpose: "Behold the Power of Seeing Color and Knowing You Matter." The directory is full of clinicians of various racial and ethnic backgrounds as well as training and treatment styles. Clinicians of Color operates the directory as a matching platform rather than a vetting service, meaning providers list themselves and readers search independently.

How to Use the Directory

The search interface begins with geography: readers enter a city and state or allow the directory to use their browser location data to find clinicians near them. From that starting point, readers layer on additional filters across multiple dimensions.

Meeting Format. Therapists indicate whether they practice in person, via secure video telehealth, by phone, or any combination. A reader can select one or more formats. This is particularly useful for someone in a rural area who wants telehealth options or someone who prefers in-person connection.

Type of Therapy Offered. Clinicians specify whether they work with individuals, couples, families or groups. Someone seeking couples therapy can filter to exclude individual-only practitioners. A parent looking for family work can narrow to family-focused providers. Groups work is also listed as an option.

Client Age Preference. The directory allows filtering by age groups the clinician works with: young children, school-age children, adolescents, young adults, adults and older adults. Readers can select one age group or several. This helps parents find clinicians with child development expertise and older adults find providers with gerontological training.

Insurance Accepted. One of the directory's strongest features is insurance filtering. The captured page lists dozens of carriers: Aetna, Anthem, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, Medicaid, Medicare, Humana, Kaiser Permanente, UnitedHealthcare, Optum, MHN, Lyra, Magellan, TRICARE and many others. Clinicians can also indicate they do not accept insurance or accept out-of-network superbills. A reader with specific insurance can filter to in-network providers or those accepting that plan's out-of-network rates.

Clinician Credentials and Type. Readers can filter by clinician type: psychotherapist, clinical social worker, marriage and family therapist, mental health counselor, psychiatrist, psychologist, nurse practitioner, art therapist, expressive arts therapist, and coach, plus pre-licensed clinicians and multi-clinician group practices. This lets someone seeking a psychiatrist who can prescribe narrow to that specific credential.

Clinician Race and Ethnicity. The directory allows readers to search by clinician race (Black, White, Asian, Latino-Latina-Latinx-Latine, biracial, multiracial) and ethnicity (African-American, Alaskan Native, Arabic, Canadian, Caribbean, Central American, Chinese, East African, French Canadian, Indian, Middle Eastern, North African, Pacific Islander, Persian, South American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, Southern African, West African). Readers seeking a clinician who shares their identity can find that match.

Treatment Areas. The directory lists about 50 to 60 specializations. Common conditions include anxiety, depression, trauma and PTSD, grief, OCD, bipolar disorder, ADHD, eating disorders and substance use, plus identity-centered areas: racial trauma, racial identity development, social movement trauma and LGBTQIA+ work. Readers can select one or multiple areas.

Allied Populations. A separate filter recognizes specialized populations: activists, body-positive practitioners, sex workers, queer and trans clinicians, and kink-aware practitioners. These signals help readers find clinicians versed in their world.

Contacting Clinicians. Once a reader finds a match, they can view the profile and use the directory's contact form or visit the clinician's website. The directory facilitates connection but does not book appointments.

What the Pages Prove

Scope and Growth. The organization founded the Facebook group Clinicians of Color, LLC (COC) in 2016. That group now has over 12,000 members. The mission includes both directory matching and clinical training: "help therapists of color start or grow a private practice, but we also provide clinical training to help therapists of color develop skills, acquire knowledge, and become successful in business."

Featured Clinicians. The site displays example profiles: Shannon Battle (psychotherapist in Fayetteville, NC), Pamella Terry (pre-certified in New York, NY), Luckdjyne Neas (clinical social worker in New York), and Juanita Davis (psychotherapist in Atlanta, GA). These demonstrate the range of credentials and locations.

Clinician Autonomy. Information in the directory comes from clinicians' own profiles. Clinicians provide their treatment areas, credentials, location, meeting format and insurance information. The directory does not require proof of credentials or verification of credentials; it is a self-reported database.

Additional Services. The site mentions a Training Academy, separate from the directory, as well as a blog featuring posts on topics like "PRIDE MONTH AWARENESS" and "Mindfulness in Motion: Finding Presence Through Line Dance." These suggest the organization offers resources beyond the matching directory itself, though details were not captured.

Insurance Coverage. The insurance list covers Medicaid, Medicare, private plans and supplemental programs like EAP. However, confirm any clinician's acceptance of a specific plan directly.

What the Pages Do Not Disclose

The captured page does not provide fee information or average pricing. Readers must contact clinicians to learn rates. The site does not publish wait times for new patient appointments. There is no published clinical outcome data or research comparing clinicians' effectiveness. The directory offers no reviews or ratings from past clients. Clinicians' years of experience, specialized training beyond stated credentials, or case presentation examples are not centralized. The directory does not verify credentials or run background checks; it relies on clinician self-reporting. Session policies, cancellation fees, and whether clinicians are currently accepting new clients are not listed centrally; readers must check individual profiles.

Who It Fits

The Clinicians of Color directory works best for someone actively seeking a therapist of color and comfortable with web-based search. Readers with specific identities, racial backgrounds or cultural needs can filter to clinicians who share or specialize in that identity work. This addresses a persistent gap in mental health matching: readers from marginalized communities or with trauma related to identity can find providers intentionally positioned to understand that context.

Someone with private insurance or Medicaid will find the insurance filters useful. Someone in a major metropolitan area or willing to use telehealth will find abundant results. Someone seeking a specific credential type (psychiatrist for medication, clinical social worker for specific training) can filter effectively.

The directory does not serve someone seeking emergency crisis intervention or immediate hospitalization. It is not a 24/7 service. Someone without internet access or uncomfortable with digital tools will find the interface challenging. Someone unable to afford therapy will not find subsidized slots; the directory shows which clinicians accept low-cost insurance like Medicaid, but does not highlight sliding scale or free services. Someone in a very small town may find few or no local results and would need to consider telehealth. Someone seeking a clinician of a specific race or ethnicity that the directory's categories do not capture may not find a perfect match, though the breadth of ethnicity options is substantial.

Someone seeking a clinician with highly specialized training in a specific modality (somatic experiencing, EMDR, psychodynamic) will need to check individual profiles rather than filtering by modality; these specializations are not separate filter categories. Someone hesitant about seeing a younger or newer therapist should note that the directory includes pre-licensed clinicians, which means a reader must review individual credentials carefully.