Advocating for men’s mental health through dialogue and education
2024 Diwali Fundraiser: Finding Light Through the Darkness
Thursday, November 7th | 7 PM
City Hall Events | 838 W Kinzie | Chicago
Our Mission
Brown Man Therapy (BMT) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting mental health awareness, education, and community engagement among South Asian men. Our mission is to normalize mental health discussions, foster inclusivity, and advocate for the benefits of psychotherapy and mental healthcare.
What is Brown Man Therapy?
Brown Man Therapy started as a social media account and is on its way to a movement.
This is a space, a medium, for creating dialogue that redefines strength, vulnerability, and masculinity in the South Asian community. We don’t have to completely shed all of our lessons about what it means to be a man, but we also don’t have to hold on to what doesn’t work anymore. Strength is not about avoidance and minimizing, it is validating, it is digging deeper, it is facing that which is difficult to face.
Therapy was not created by people who think, look, or feel the same ways as South Asian men (or other “brown” men), so we get to adapt it to work for us, and that is what we envision for Brown Man Therapy.
Our vision is a world that prioritizes you.
BMT envisions a world in which we, ironically, don’t only define ourselves by our physical or inherent traits, but by our interests, our emotions, our relationships, our work, our play, and our lifestyle.
BMT hopes to instill confidence in men to prioritize their mental health as a means to building healthier and stronger community.
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Why we got started.
Initially excited by early social media platforms, my perspective shifted as I observed its negative impact on mental health, particularly among teens, who experienced increased anxiety, shame, and a sense of disconnection. The Covid-19 pandemic intensified our reliance on digital connections, leading to a surge in health and wellness content online, including discussions on mental health. This shift inspired me to re-engage with social media, a space I had grown wary of, to foster dialogue about mental health and therapy, especially among demographics traditionally hesitant about counseling.