The San Mateo County Pride Center provides high quality, LGBTQ+ affirming mental health services to community members living throughout San Mateo County. Mental wellbeing services include individual therapy, relationship therapy, family therapy, group therapy, and case management. Our work is strength-based, trauma-informed, engaging both natural supports and the whole family whenever possible.
WHAT ARE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES?
CONTACT
Referrals and/or service inquires should be directed to our
Clinical Coordinator,
Fern Farley, at:
fern.farley@sanmateopride.org
650-591-0133 ext. 146
Fax: 650-393-5210 (ATTN: Fern Farley)
For decades, San Mateo County residents seeking accessible, community-based LGBTQ+ mental health services have had to travel north to San Francisco, south to San Jose, or even across the bridge to Oakland or Berkeley. Those who could not travel simply could not access such services. Situated in the heart of the San Mateo County, the Pride Center embraces this historically isolated region by not only providing high quality mental health services to LGBTQ+ community members, but also by delivering these services right here at home.
- Care coordination
- Collaborative treatment planning
- Individual counseling
- Group therapy
- Relationship therapy
- Family therapy
- Community based services
- Case Management
- Depression
- Anxiety
- PTSD and trauma
- Domestic violence (both perpetrators and survivors)
- Self-harm and suicidal ideation
- Work with siblings and blended families
- Couple and relationship counseling
- Gender identity
- Polyamory and nonmonogamy
- Anger management
- BDSM/kink
- Working with survivors of violent crime
- LGBTQ+ adults, families, and youth
- Other mental health and medical providers
- Teachers
- Parents
- Administrators and school support staff
Our Multi-Modal lens includes Evidence-Based and Strength-Based practices as well as Cross Cultural Therapy Modalities and Expressive Arts Therapy. Our work is trauma-informed and engages natural supports, including the whole family, whenever possible.
We are committed to providing mental health services to the LGBTQ+ community throughout San Mateo County. We accept private pay on a sliding scale (depending on monthly income) as well as those who are or can qualify as a Medi-Cal beneficiary.
Services will be prioritized to:
- Low income
- Marginalized and underserved communities
- Emotional and behavioral disturbances over a prolonged period of time with identifiable symptoms such as depression, mood swings, hyperactivity, marked anxiety, difficulty concentrating or sitting still, extensive trauma history, etc.
- Relationship problems
- Poor social skills
- Troubled or destructive peer or family relationships
- Isolation and/or social anxiety
- Marked mental health symptoms causing difficulty and distress in relationships at home, school, work and/or community.
- High risk for increasing level of severity of presenting issues without mental health intervention
- Expressed need by participant or family for mental health services to meet social-emotional, behavioral, and/or educational goals
- Self-endangering behavior
- History of suicide attempts or ideation
- Victim or witness of violent crimes (bullying, gun violence, domestic violence, etc.)
- Difficulty managing anger and/or history of domestic violence perpetration
There are several options:
- If you have Medi-Cal please call the ACCESS line and let them know you would like therapy services at the San Mateo County Pride Center: (800) 686-0101, TDD: (800) 943-2833
- Call or email the San Mateo County Pride Center and set up an intake appointment with the Clinical Coordinator, Fern Farley, LMFT #92100: farley@sanmateopride.org or 650-591-0133 ext. 146
- Fax: 650-393-5210 (ATTN: Fern Farley)
Referrals and/or service inquires should be directed to our Clinical Coordinator, Fern Farley:
fern.farley@sanmateopride.org
650-591-0133 ext. 146
Fax: 650-393-5210 (ATTN: Fern Farley)