Imagine being a complex childhood trauma survivor, needing specialized trauma therapy, being ready and willing to do the work, but there's no clinician within a 2+ hour radius able to help you.


Imagine having treatment options nearby, but no money to get there, no insurance approval to pay for their services, and no funding from us or others available to help get you the care you need and deserve. You made it to adulthood by your own sheer will and grit, but the world is once again telling you there's no help for you and this pain will never end. What about these survivors? Who helps them? Enter in our project.

We call it a Therapy Box.

What is it exactly? While nothing can compare to face-to-face therapy, survivors who'd otherwise go without any help, support, or guidance can now receive a collection of trauma-informed materials loosely tailored to their individual needs.

Every box includes no less than:

  • 1-2 trauma-focused workbooks/books. With input from the survivor, we choose which books are most likely to supply them with the best trauma education, guidance for managing symptoms, and the physical/emotional support they need during this time without a therapist.

  • A journal

  • Several grounding, distraction, self-care, and fidget items

  • A comfort item (may be a blanket, stuffed animal, or other source of comfort - depending on the donations we receive and the needs of the survivor!)

  • Many more encouraging, life-affirming items that are based on their need and YOUR donations and support!


HOW CAN YOU HELP

We are confident recipients will treasure not only the life-changing information and self-care tools you made possible, but the much deeper gift in knowing someone out there cared about them. That you see value in their life and wouldn't let them go without. Your generosity allows us the ability to bundle, tape, and ship out these glimmers of real hope.

No matter your budget or means, there are several ways you can get involved. If you need inspiration on items you can contribute, visit our Amazon Wishlist. If shopping’s not your thing or you feel called to make an even bigger impact, try one of these:

  • Opt to sponsor and complete an entire therapy box

  • Contribute a monetary donation that allows us to fill, package, and ship boxes with the items lowest in our inventory

  • Contact businesses who may want to donate bulk promotional items

  • Reach out to friends, family, coworkers, and/or local businesses and create your own donation drive

  • Purchase items from the Wishlist itself, or

  • Mail in items that you've personally created or chosen independently!

Now, imagine receiving a box with this much heart, consideration, and support. Your thoughtful generosity transformed into something tangible, delivered right into the hands of someone waiting for a chance to do more than just survive.

WHERE TO GET INVOLVED

Please invite your friends, therapists, doctors, colleagues, and loved ones to join us for our year-round initiative. We know it's equally as painful to clinicians to have to turn survivors away. This is a chance to ease that ache and hold a survivor's hand until they CAN be in your (or another therapist's) care. Together, we close the gaps that none of us can bridge alone.

 

Completed Boxes

Examples of past boxes — highly customized with and for each survivor based on their needs, personal desires, and considerations of space in their home, what they may or may not already own, unique sensitivities, and more.

 
 

Donated items

A look at some of the donated items as they come in and a bit of our inventory at different points throughout the year. You can keep up with these things and what we’re in need of on our Therapy Box FB page.