INSIDE OUT MISSION:

What an exciting time to be a part of our mission! it is now time to bring the inside of HHC’s beautiful new “home“ outside for everyone to see and for our name and advertisement signage and banners to be installed and added to our building

Help us to provide our:new front door with signage with the locking RING access front lock door system that allows clients to have secure entry and exit, or help donate our new planters and plants to beautify our entryway and alleyway areas. You can also send funds to ensure our outdoor signage is placed on State College announcing our non-profit to the area as well as banners calling attention to the vital work we do is facing State College announcing our mission! Be the Light and provide funding for new outdoor lighting to ensure clients enjoy a nice, bright, safe environment as they enter and exit our parking area.

OUR STORY:
High Hopes Counseling Foundation originated from personal experiences struggling to find affordable, quality, mental and behavioral health care. I grew up in a low socioeconomic household with family members exhibiting mental health struggles. I learned how to scaffold my own mental health needs due to lack of parental awareness, financial barriers, and the stigma surrounding mental health treatment in the 1970s.

As an adult, I received six free therapy visits at the Fullerton College Health Center. But I needed more, and was referred to FACES, a nonprofit, low fee counseling agency where graduate students intern to become future clinicians. There was a learning curve, for both the clinician and myself, but I was grateful to find support, especially with the socioeconomic barriers I was facing. This experience was so impactful, years later I’d find myself daydreaming about becoming a therapist and starting my own clinic to give back to the community.

Over the years, I’ve learned that it can be difficult to find collaborative mental health care. While raising my family, I pieced together care for myself, and my children through trial and error, endless appointments, including medical doctors, mental health therapists, speech and language therapists, psychiatrists, school counselors, special education meetings, and vision therapy, to SPECT brain scans, Gene Site testing, and alternative education. I want to make the road less difficult, and to help others find and experience consistent, affordable, quality mental health care and support.

Fast forward to 2020, and my dream became a reality! High Hopes Counseling provides accessible, reduced-fee, quality mental and behavioral health care, while providing learning opportunities to pre-licensed mental health therapists and counselors. Our board of directors represent a diverse group of individuals- folks across the lifespan, people of color, varying orientations and gender identities who understand mental health care-coming together for a shared interest. Together, we believe that clients deserve access to consistent mental and behavioral health care, and that University students and pre-licensed clinicians deserve a supportive, inclusive learning environment.

Inside Out Beautification Campaign

By High Hopes Counseling

Inside Out Beautification Campaign

Bring the Beauty of our New Building “Inside Out” & Need Your Help to Make it Happen!

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