Rewriting Survival Into Emotional Freedom for Black Men.
Identity. Masculinity. Intimacy. Healing. Leadership.
You deserve a space where your full self is not questioned, shamed, or reduced to survival.
This is where Black men learn to reconnect with themselves, deepen emotional intelligence, and build relationships rooted in truth, vulnerability, and worth.
📌 Featured Program:
Black Masculinity, Identity & Intimacy
A 6-session transformational program for Black men ready to heal deeply, love fully, and lead with emotional mastery.
Available nationwide.
Make a donation.
🌟 Support Our Mission: Healing for Black, Queer, Latinx & BIPOC Communities
Universal Therapies Healing in Color (UTHC INC) is a Black-, queer-, and BIPOC-led nonprofit dedicated to expanding mental health access for communities who have historically been denied culturally grounded, identity-affirming emotional support.
We serve the people who are too often overlooked, misunderstood, or priced out of care — Black men, queer and trans individuals, Latinx communities, and BIPOC individuals navigating trauma, identity conflict, financial hardship, and generational wounds.
Your donation helps us provide life-changing support through:
✨ Sliding-scale therapy for Black queer men and BIPOC clients
Ensuring that culture-centered healing is accessible — not a privilege.
✨ Free emotional support workshops + community healing spaces
Creating safe, affirming spaces where people can learn, connect, and heal together.
✨ Digital mental health tools for Black MSM (Hush Health)
Bringing wellness to those who cannot access traditional care.
✨ Identity, intimacy, and trauma healing support
Helping men navigate the intersections of race, masculinity, queerness, and survival.
✨ Care for individuals who cannot afford mental health services
Removing the financial barriers that keep too many of us out of the healing process.Founding Supporter Levels
$50 – Supports a mental health resource
$100 – Provides a therapy toolkit
$200 – Sponsors a sliding-scale session
$500 – Supports a community workshop
$1,000 – Founding Circle Leader (name optional)
🌟 Your Impact
Black, queer, Latinx, and BIPOC communities carry some of the deepest emotional wounds — while having the fewest pathways to safe, culturally grounded care.
Your gift directly removes those barriers.
It brings healing within reach for people who have survived trauma, silence, shame, and systems that were never designed with them in mind.
Your support doesn’t just fund services — it transforms lives, restores dignity, and makes emotional freedom possible.
WHY OUR WORK MATTERS
1. Only 1 in 3 Black adults who need mental health care receives it.
Black communities experience significant barriers to accessing affirming and culturally competent mental health support.
(National Institute of Mental Health, 2023)
2. Black LGBTQ+ individuals are 2–3 times more likely to experience depression, anxiety, and trauma.
Intersecting experiences of racism, homophobia, and identity-related trauma increase emotional distress and decrease access to safe, affirming care.
(Human Rights Campaign, 2024; The Trevor Project, 2023)
3. Over 55% of BIPOC individuals cite cost, stigma, and lack of culturally competent providers as major barriers to mental health treatment.
This includes financial limitations, fear of not being understood, and negative experiences with non-diverse providers.
(American Psychological Association, 2022; Mental Health America, 2023)
4. Black Americans experience financial stress at nearly twice the rate of White Americans, with queer populations experiencing 3–4 times higher rates of financial trauma overall.
Financial trauma intersects deeply with race, sexuality, and trauma histories.
(APA Stress in America Report, 2023; Williams Institute, 2022)
5. Representation in mental health care is critically low: only 4% of U.S. therapists are Black, and only 2% are Black men.
Lack of representation contributes to mistrust, misdiagnosis, and cultural disconnection in care.
(APA Workforce Data, 2021)
Healing & Empowerment for Black, Brown + LGBTQ+ Professionals
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Healing & Empowerment for Black, Brown + LGBTQ+ Professionals 〰️
Trauma-informed, culturally grounded therapy that honors all parts of who you are. Private-pay sessions for Texas-based clients, with sliding-scale options available.
Dr. John Satchel Horatio Page Jr.,DSW, LCSW
Who I Work With
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Who I Work With 〰️
I support adults who are carrying a lot — emotionally, professionally, spiritually, and often in silence. Many of the people I work with are Black, Brown, and LGBTQ+ individuals, high-achieving professionals, caretakers, creatives, and leaders who are exhausted from surviving and ready to start living with more ease, clarity, and integrity.
My clients are often navigating:
• Complex, racialized, or identity-based trauma
People whose stories have been misunderstood or minimized, and who need a space built for the full truth of their experiences.
• Black, Brown, and LGBTQ+ folks seeking culturally grounded care
Individuals wanting therapy or coaching where they don’t have to translate, shrink, or defend who they are.
• High-functioning professionals dealing with burnout, pressure, and emotional overload
Those who look strong on the outside but are overwhelmed internally — and need tools, not judgment.
• People healing from family patterns, attachment wounds, and relationship cycles
Individuals wanting to break generational patterns, reconnect with themselves, and build healthier ways of loving and being loved.
• Those navigating grief, identity shifts, transitions, and emotional turning points
People moving through losses, endings, transformations, or seasons of self-discovery that require deeper support and reflection.
My Approach
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My Approach 〰️
How I Work
My work is trauma-informed, culturally grounded, and rooted in emotional intelligence. I blend traditional psychotherapy with narrative, somatic, and liberation-focused approaches. Together, we make space for all of you—your grief, your brilliance, your doubt, your hope—and we work toward a life where you’re not just getting through the day but actually feeling more present, powerful, and aligned.
Therapy with me is collaborative, direct, and deeply compassionate. I won’t ask you to shrink, perform, or translate your experience to be understood.
Specialty Packages
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Specialty Packages 〰️
Emotional Intelligence & Self-Mastery
A 60-minute deep-dive session designed for emotional overwhelm, painful turning points, or big decisions. We map what’s happening, name the patterns, and create a plan you can actually use.
Trauma Reset Intensive
A 90-minute deep-dive session designed for emotional overwhelm, painful turning points, or big decisions. We map what’s happening, name the patterns, and create a plan you can actually use.
Black Masculinity, Identity & Intimacy
A 6-session program for Black men navigating emotional armor, intimacy fears, and identity conflict, who are ready to feel more whole in relationships and within themselves
About / Credentials
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About / Credentials 〰️
✨ What I Believe
I believe that healing is both deeply personal and profoundly political. People are not broken—systems break people. Trauma, racism, homophobia, financial instability, and family legacies of survival all leave impressions on the body and psyche, but they never erase your inherent worth. My work exists at the intersection of identity, emotional intelligence, and liberation because I believe therapy should affirm who you are, not force you to shrink to be understood.
I believe in honoring the full complexity of Black and Brown people, queer people, masculine-presenting people, and anyone who has had to survive more than they were ever meant to. In therapy with me, you never have to translate your identity or minimize your truth. Your cultural reality, your spiritual experiences, your sexuality, your body, your grief, and your brilliance all belong in the room.
Healing is an act of reclamation. Emotional intelligence is a skill that can be learned. Vulnerability is a form of wisdom—not weakness. And every person deserves a space where they can exhale, unravel what’s heavy, and rise into a more grounded, aligned version of themselves.
Human Touch
Outside of my professional work, I’m someone who values culture, creativity, and connection. I’m a Black queer man who loves music—everything from Bobby Caldwell to Yoruba spiritual rhythms—and I often find clarity in cooking, travel, and storytelling. My spiritual life is grounded in ancestral reverence, cultural wisdom, and deep emotional introspection.
I believe in joy, humor, and softness as revolutionary practices. I love good food, thoughtful conversations, beautifully designed spaces, and the kind of laughter that makes your chest feel lighter. I bring all of who I am into my work: my cultural identity, my lived experiences, my intuition, my academic mind, my spiritual grounding, and my commitment to seeing people fully and without judgment.
Dr. John Satchel Horatio Page Jr., DSW, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker — Texas (LCSW #112335)
I am a licensed clinical social worker, scholar-practitioner, and CEO with over a decade of clinical experience across private practice, hospitals, community mental health, and city government leadership roles. My work sits at the intersection of trauma, identity, financial stress, queer masculinity, and post-survival leadership.
Education
Ph.D. in Human Development (in progress) – Fielding Graduate University
Concentrations: Inclusive Leadership for Social Justice; Somatics/Phenomenology/Communicative Leadership
Dissertation: Reclaiming Worth: Financial Trauma, Queer Identity, and Post-Survival Leadership Among Black Men in the African Diaspora
(64 doctoral credits transferred from NYU)Doctor of Social Work (DSW) – University of Southern California
Capstone: HushHealth – A Culturally Competent Mobile Solution for Mental Health Equity
(Foundation for the launch of HushHealth Inc.)Ph.D. Coursework (2016–2021) – New York University, Silver School of Social Work
Research focus: Black MSM identity, depression, and public health interventionsMaster of Social Work (MSW) – Columbia University (Advanced Clinical Practice)
Minor: International Social Welfare | Field: Aging & Gerontology
Study Abroad: Social Work in Havana, CubaBachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Psychology – Long Island University
Professional Experience & Leadership
Founder & CEO, Universal Therapies Healing in Color (UTHC Inc.)
Leading a nonprofit dedicated to mental health equity for Black MSM, LGBTQ+ communities of color, and trauma survivors; directing clinical services, policy advocacy, and research initiatives.Founder & CEO, Hush Health Inc.
Established a Texas S-Corporation; filed a provisional patent for a digital mental health platform designed for Black MSM and LGBTQ+ communities; building therapist networks, digital tools, and national partnerships.Clinical Therapist (Private Practice)
Specializing in trauma; Black queer mental health; sexuality, identity & intimacy; financial trauma; and post-religious healing. Providing culturally responsive care for high-achieving adults, couples, and families.Administrative Director of Social Services, NYC Human Resources Administration / DHS
Directed citywide Ombudsman operations and Veteran Services; led complaint monitoring, policy development, and inter-agency coordination.Clinical Social Worker, New York-Presbyterian Hospital & Mount Sinai Hospital
Provided bilingual clinical services to patients with HIV/AIDS and high-risk medical populations; collaborated with interdisciplinary teams.
Research & Publication
Research Consultant – Temple University CPH (Couples-Based HIV Prevention Study for Latino MSM)
Research Assistant – Columbia University NIH-funded interventions for stimulant-using MSM of color
Publication in American Journal of Men’s Health (2015)
Specializations
Trauma (racialized, complex, survival-based)
Black & LGBTQ+ mental health
Emotional intelligence & relational healing
Financial trauma & post-survival leadership
Grief, sexuality, identity development
Somatics, embodiment & liberation-focused frameworks
Digital mental health innovation (HushHealth)
Call to Action
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Call to Action 〰️
It’s Time to Choose Yourself
You’ve carried so much for so long — the expectations, the silence, the survival, the shame, the heavy emotions you were never given the tools to name. You’ve held it together professionally, emotionally, spiritually… even when it felt like no one saw the weight you were dragging behind you.
But you don’t have to keep living that way.
Not another year.
Not another month.
Not another day.
There is a version of you that is clearer, softer, more grounded, more confident, and more emotionally free — a version of you that isn’t reacting from survival, performing strength, or shrinking your truth just to make it through.
That version of you is possible.
It’s real.
And it starts with one choice:
Choosing yourself.
Choosing your healing.
Choosing your emotional growth.
Choosing relationships that don’t drain you.
Choosing boundaries that protect your peace.
Choosing a life you don’t have to recover from every night.
This is your moment to step into something deeper, healthier, and more aligned.
If you’re ready to stop surviving and start living with clarity, courage, emotional intelligence, and integrity — let’s work.
Start your healing journey today:
👉 Book a session
👉 Join a program
👉 Take a workshop
👉 Become a member
👉 Support this mission
Whatever your next step is, take it.
Your future self will thank you.
You don’t have to carry this alone anymore.
Let’s do this together.
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Coaching & Identity Work (Available Nationwide)
Coaching is for Black, queer, and Latinx individuals seeking guidance, identity exploration, clarity, confidence, and relational growth.
Coaching is not therapy. It’s transformational work focused on emotional intelligence, relationships, masculinity, confidence, self-mastery, and leadership.
Coaching includes:
Black Masculinity, Identity & Intimacy (flagship program)
Post-Survival Leadership Coaching
Latinx Identity & Healing
Relationship & intimacy coaching
Documentation coaching
Workshops & group intensives
Clinical Therapy (Texas Only)
Therapy services are provided under my Texas LCSW license and are available to residents physically located in Texas.
These services focus on emotional healing, trauma, mental health, intimacy barriers, depression, anxiety, attachment, and identity-related distress.
Specialties in therapy include:
Trauma & emotional wounds
Sexuality & identity exploration
Depression/anxiety
Financial trauma
Family conflict
Intimacy fears & relationship patterns
ADHD screening & evaluations
Letters & evaluations (ESA, gender-affirming, hardship)
Para la Comunidad Latinx
Para la Comunidad Latinx
La sanación emocional es para todos.
Ofrezco servicios de coaching, exploración de identidad y apoyo emocional para personas Latinx, queer, y biculturales que desean sanar conflictos internos, entender sus raíces, y crear relaciones más sanas y auténticas.
Servicios disponibles en inglés y español.
Para terapia clínica, debe encontrarse en Texas. Coaching está disponible en todos los estados y países.
Our brand vision
At the forefront of mental health support, we are redefining the boundaries of care through innovative approaches and cutting-edge solutions.
Our mission is to empower individuals to thrive in a rapidly changing world, providing tools and resources that enhance well-being and personal growth. Learn more
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