Mental Health Month in 2025

In a season often associated with renewal, May 2025 arrives with added gravity. It’s Mental Health Month—a time we’ve long acknowledged at Gould Farm with resources, conversations, and quiet encouragement. But this year, the moment feels more urgent.

In recent weeks, we’ve witnessed the unraveling of critical support systems across the country. The federal cancellation of over $11 billion in mental health and addiction services is not just a budgetary line item—it’s a loss that reverberates through communities already stretched thin. It’s a stark reminder that in many places, the structures meant to support people’s healing are being dismantled just when they’re most needed.

Mental Health America’s toolkit for May offers tangible ways for anyone, anywhere, to reach out for support or take action—whether it’s setting a boundary, exploring creative expression, joining in a public health campaign, or reaching out for help. These resources are free, accessible, and full of encouragement. No one should feel like they have to navigate their mental health journey alone.

A non-exhaustive list of additional resources:

OutCare Health - Find an LGBTQ+ Affirming Provider Near You

Crisis Text Line - Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a volunteer Crisis Counselor

The Trevor Project - crisis services, advocacy, and peer support for LGBTQ+ young people

National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network

Asian Mental Health Project

LoveLand Foundation Therapy Fund - With the barriers affecting access to treatment by members of diverse ethnic and racial groups, the Loveland Therapy Fund provides financial assistance to Black women and nonbinary individuals seeking therapy nationally.

LatinxTherapy - resources and opportunities to support mental health and cultural empowerment in the Latinx community.

The Mental Health Coalition - working to catalyze like-minded communities to work together to destigmatize mental health and empower access to vital resources and necessary support for all.

Hearing Voices Network - This international collaboration offers an empowering, non-pathologizing approach to understanding and coping with voice-hearing and other extreme experiences, developed by professionals, people with lived experience, and their families.

The Fireweed Collective - offering mental health education and mutual aid through a Healing Justice and Disability Justice lens.

7 Cups of Tea - free 24/7 chat, affordable therapy, and an online community many call home.

NAMI Connection Recovery Support Group - a free, peer-led support group for any adult who has experienced symptoms of a mental health condition.

At Gould Farm, we feel both the weight of this loss on the national level and the unique position we occupy. We are a small nonprofit. We receive no federal funding. Our income consists of treatment fees and donations, and thanks to the generosity of our community, we can offer financial aid through a sliding fee scale. In many ways, we are shielded from the immediate consequences of these federal cuts. And that is a privilege.

But we do not see that privilege as permission to look away. Instead, we see it as a responsibility—a call to deepen the work already unfolding here.

This year’s theme in our spring print newsletter was unfinished work. It’s a phrase that speaks not only to our history, but to our present. Our DEI efforts are not a completed checklist; they are living, breathing commitments. Our upcoming conference on psychosis—focused on humanizing care, reducing stigma, and building bridges between clinical practice and lived experience—is not a solution to the broken system, but a contribution to the conversation. Even our daily rhythms—baking bread, mucking stalls, sharing meals—are small acts of resistance. There is no "us" and "them", only "we".

We can’t undo sweeping policy changes or stop layoffs in distant cities. But we can keep showing up. We can keep inviting people into a place where healing is possible. We can keep removing barriers—financial, cultural, systemic—to care.

Here at Gould Farm, we believe that doing the work in front of us—honestly, humbly, and with love—is itself an act of resistance. We aren’t immune to the pain around us, but we are committed to holding space for healing anyway.

To all who are feeling discouraged by the state of mental health in our country right now: you are not alone. There are still places of refuge. There are still people who care. There is still work to be done. And together, we will keep doing it.

What resources are useful to you? Drop a link or comment below so we can share in what’s available, and hopefully, create a healthier future together.