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TCP nurtures individual well-being and personal growth by providing high-quality, affordable therapy to women and gender-expansive people.

We work from an intersectional framework that recognizes social location and oppression as integral to healing. The Center offers individual couples, and group therapy all on a sliding fee scale. Yoga workshops and psychological testing are available as well as a specific program for resolving experiences of trauma. With a diverse staff of over 20 therapists, the Center offers a wide range of counseling expertise including psycho-dynamic therapy, cognitive-behavioral treatment, EMDR, and gestalt therapy, to name a few. TCP also welcomes anyone who identifies as transgender or gender non-conforming, regardless of sex assigned at birth or gender identity. This could include but not be limited to trans women, trans men, gender non-conforming and gender-queer identified folks, as well as transsexuals or anyone on the transgender continuum. Psychotherapy could include exploring issues around being trans-identified including: emotionally transitioning, coming out to family, friends, partners, or at work, medical transition, isolation, building community, relationship to your body, or dealing with trans-phobia. It could also include issues not related to your gender-identity or transitioning but be offered in a trans-affirming space. Our therapists do not operate solely from a gender binary assumption and come with experience and training around how to be trans-affirming and competent. Some are trans-identified as well.

12/26/2025

Internalized transphobia can make daily life feel heavier than it needs to be. Many Transgender folx grow up absorbing harmful messages about identity, expression, or worth, often long before they had the language to understand themselves. Healing begins with recognizing that these messages were imposed on you, not born within you.

Reclaiming your narrative means learning to pause self-criticism and practice compassionate self-talk. Statements like “My identity is worthy and real” or “I am allowed to take up space exactly as I am” can slowly interrupt long-standing patterns of shame. These are not affirmations of fantasy, they are truths that may have been denied to you.

Therapy offers a grounded space to unlearn fear, build self-trust, and relearn what it feels like to exist without apology. You deserve care that honors your identity and supports your growth without judgment.

Take the next step toward the care you deserve.
💌 Visit therapycenterofphila.org or call 215-567-1111

12/23/2025

You don’t have to wear your pain like armor. It’s okay to take it off, even just for a moment. Healing doesn’t mean erasing what’s happened, it means allowing yourself to be seen and supported.

For women, it can be hard to stop performing strength when the world keeps expecting it. For BIPOC folx, it can mean finding a space that understands the layered impact of racism and trauma. For LGBTQIA+ folx, it’s being reminded that your identity isn’t a burden, it’s something to be celebrated.

You’re allowed to rest. You’re allowed to heal. And you don’t have to do it alone.

Let us hold space with you.
💌 Visit therapycenterofphila.org or call 215-567-1111

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12/18/2025

Trans folx carry the constant weight of being unseen, questioned, and sometimes misunderstood. It’s okay to step away when conversations drain you. It’s okay to say, “That question makes me uncomfortable.” You’re allowed to protect your energy always.

Boundaries aren’t about shutting the world out. They’re how you tell yourself that your emotions, time, and peace matter too. Every time you walk away from something harmful, you’re choosing self-respect over exhaustion.

In therapy, you can practice holding boundaries that feel true to you, not out of fear, but out of love for yourself. Healing begins when you stop apologizing for needing peace.

Find support that honors your truth.
💌 Visit therapycenterofphila.org or call 215-567-1111

12/15/2025

Vulnerability is supposed to be freeing but for many women, it’s never been safe. When women express sadness, anger, or fear, they’re too often told they’re overreacting. Centuries of being dismissed have taught women to stay guarded, to protect rather than reveal.

For LGBTQIA+ and Trans women, the cost of vulnerability can be even higher. Sharing one’s truth in a world that still questions your identity means carrying both fear and courage in the same breath.

And for BIPOC women, vulnerability is layered. Cultural expectations, racial stereotypes, and generational trauma have long demanded resilience, even when exhaustion sets in. Healing starts when you’re no longer punished for feeling, when your story is met with safety, not suspicion.

Begin your healing with someone who listens.
💌 Visit therapycenterofphila.org or call 215-567-1111

12/12/2025

It’s a common misconception that mental health challenges only affect certain people. The truth is, no one is immune to emotional pain, stress, or trauma.

Women often carry invisible labor, expected to hold everything together while hiding their own pain. LGBTQIA+ folx navigate the daily weight of identity, belonging, and safety. BIPOC communities face ongoing systemic barriers and intergenerational trauma that shape their emotional well-being.

At TCP, we recognize that your background shapes how you experience and heal. Mental health care should reflect that grounded in equity, safety, and cultural understanding.

Healing is for everyone, including you.
💌 Visit therapycenterofphila.org or call 215-567-1111

12/09/2025

Struggling doesn’t mean you’re failing, it means you’re human. Journaling, drinking water, and reaching out for support aren’t small tasks when your mind feels heavy. They’re powerful acts of grounding.

For women, that connection can mean unlearning the idea that you have to carry everything alone. For BIPOC folx, it can mean naming the exhaustion of navigating systemic barriers. For LGBTQIA+ folx, it can mean reclaiming your right to be supported and affirmed exactly as you are.

Each act of care, no matter how small, is proof of your strength. You’re already doing the work of healing.

Take one more step toward the care you deserve.
💌 Visit therapycenterofphila.org or call 215-567-1111

12/06/2025

When your emotions are dismissed, your nervous system learns to protect you by shrinking, staying quiet, self-editing, or doubting what you feel. That isn’t weakness. It’s a trauma response.

For women, that dismissal is often disguised as “professionalism” or “composure.” For BIPOC folx, it’s the exhaustion of explaining your pain over and over to those who don’t want to see it. For LGBTQIA+ folx, it’s the constant invalidation of your lived truth.

Therapy offers a space to unlearn that silence to rebuild the safety to speak, feel, and trust your own story again.

You deserve to be fully heard and deeply understood.
💌 Visit therapycenterofphila.org or call 215-567-1111

12/03/2025

For many people of color, the effects of racism and generational trauma are constant, quiet but heavy. For women, the pressure to stay strong often hides how much support is truly needed. For LGBTQIA+ folx, that same weight can come from a lifetime of needing to prove that you belong.

These experiences are not just emotional, they live in the body, shaping how we breathe, rest, and connect. Healing means giving yourself permission to slow down and to feel safe again in your own skin.

Therapy can be a place to let that weight soften and to remember that you were never meant to carry it alone.

Start your healing journey with care that sees you.
💌 Visit therapycenterofphila.org or call 215-567-1111

12/02/2025

This Giving Tuesday, invest in healing that transforms lives.

At the Therapy Center of Philadelphia, we believe everyone deserves access to mental health care—regardless of their ability to pay. For over 50 years, we've provided trauma-informed, gender-affirming therapy to women, transgender, and gender-expansive communities across Philadelphia.

With sessions as low as $30 and an exceptional 92% client show rate, we're proof that accessible, affirming care makes a real difference. But our sliding scale model means we rely on supporters like you to bridge the gap between what our clients can afford and what quality therapy costs.

Your gift today helps us:
✨ Maintain affordable therapy for those living below the poverty line
✨ Support women, transgender, and q***r folks navigating hostile healthcare landscapes
✨ Provide culturally responsive and antiracist care in a city where it's desperately needed
✨ Build a mental health safety net in uncertain times

This Giving Tuesday, join us in creating a Philadelphia where financial stress never stands between someone and the healing they deserve.

Donate today: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/therapy-center-of-philadelphia

Every contribution—whether $30 or $300—directly supports someone's journey toward wellness. Thank you for being part of our community. 💙

11/30/2025

Every LGBTQIA+ folx carries their own story of resilience, one built through courage, care, and connection.

Resilience looks like living your truth, even when it’s hard. It’s letting yourself feel joy, softness, and safety in a world that too often tells you to harden. It’s community, the people who see you and remind you you’re not alone.

You’ve already come so far simply by being yourself. That is the heart of resilience.

You deserve healing that honors your truth.
💌 Visit therapycenterofphila.org or call 215-567-1111

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11/27/2025

Mental health is a right, not a privilege, yet access to care often reflects inequality, not need.

Women are expected to carry emotional labor without rest. People of color face barriers that deny culturally responsive care. Trans and q***r folx often encounter judgment where they should find understanding.

At TCP, we work to change that story. Through a sliding-scale model and community-led leadership, we make therapy accessible while centering those most often left out of traditional systems.

Healing should never depend on privilege. It should depend on your courage to begin and our responsibility to make that path open to all.

Take a moment to explore what inclusive, affirming care can look like for you.
💌 Visit therapycenterofphila.org or call 215-567-1111

11/12/2025

Healing is not a one-time decision. It’s choosing, again and again, to put your well-being at the center, even when stigma, cost, or bias try to convince you otherwise.

Women, communities of color, LGBTQIA, and Trans folx often face disproportionate barriers to care, and are frequently denied affirming spaces altogether. These inequities can deepen wounds, but they don’t erase your right to healing.

Every boundary you set, every therapy session you attend, every time you remind yourself “I am worthy,” those are choices for yourself. And over time, those choices add up to transformation.

Keep choosing you. Healing doesn’t happen overnight, but every step is progress, and you don’t have to walk it alone.
💌 Visit therapycenterofphila.org or call 215-567-1111

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215 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA
19107

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+12155671111

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http://therapycenterofphila.org/

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The Center offers individual couples, and group therapy all on a sliding fee scale. Yoga workshops and psychological testing are available as well as a specific program for resolving experiences of trauma. With a diverse staff of over 20 therapists, the Center offers a wide range of counseling expertise including psycho-dynamic therapy, cognitive-behavioral treatment, EMDR, and gestalt therapy, to name a few. TCP also welcomes anyone who identifies as transgender or gender non-conforming, regardless of s*x assigned at birth or gender identity. This could include but not be limited to trans women, trans men, gender non-conforming and gender-q***r identified folks, as well as transs*xuals or anyone on the transgender continuum. Psychotherapy could include exploring issues around being trans-identified including: emotionally transitioning, coming out to family, friends, partners, or at work, medical transition, isolation, building community, relationship to your body, or dealing with trans-phobia. It could also include issues not related to your gender-identity or transitioning but be offered in a trans-affirming space. Our therapists do not operate solely from a gender binary assumption and come with experience and training around how to be trans-affirming and competent. Some are trans-identified as well.