A Sacramento nonprofit is offering free therapy this month. Here’s how to register

A local nonprofit organization is promoting mental health by offering free therapy sessions throughout March.

The group, A Different Path, is providing three, 45-minute, therapy sessions, free of charge, to help mitigate fears of addressing one’s personal mental health.

Its team of specialists pledges a confidential, nonjudgmental, and unbiased approach in supporting clients and their mental health needs.

A Different Path lists equity as one of its core values. It aims is to educate people on mental health, addiction, and trauma. It works to reach out to lower-income and underprivileged populations who might lack resources to pursue therapy or might assume therapy isn’t for them.

“Because of our culture, we were told not to talk, not to tell, to keep everything at home, to keep everything bottled in,” said the groups founding director, Ahisha Lewis. “We need to be able to vocalize our pain and be okay with vocalizing our pain and stop dissociating the pain, or numbing ourselves out to the pain that we’ve experienced.”

You can control the narrative of how your pain impacts your life, she said. It doesn’t have to have a negative impact.

“We weren’t taught to talk about any divorce, losing a job, losing my house or becoming homeless,” said Lewis. “You need to be able to purge all that out of your body and mind so that you can become a better version of yourself.”

From March 1 to March 31, people interested in free therapy this month should complete a Google form the nonprofit is sharing at its Facebook page, facebook.com//adifferentpath.info.

Before you submit the form, there will be two calendar links which will open a new window for you to schedule your first session. Once your form is submitted you will be awarded three, no cost, sessions during March 2022.

This story was originally published March 8, 2022 at 5:25 AM.