If you—or someone you know—has lived experience with foster care and is looking for consistent, no-cost therapy, A Home Within can help. Complete the Therapist Availability Inquiry Form below and we will be in touch to let you know if we have a therapist available to work with you.
We connect people who have experienced foster care with a licensed therapist who provides open-ended, individual psychotherapy, free of charge.
Through A Home Within, volunteer therapists offer one free, 50-minute therapy session each week, in person or virtually, within their independent private practices. A Home Within does not recruit volunteers to provide care coordination or case management. Each therapist manages their own practice and determines what services they provide outside their volunteer work with A Home Within.
The first step is to complete our Therapist Availability Inquiry Form. We’ll check whether a volunteer therapist is available in your area and, if so, invite you to submit a referral.
Once we receive your referral, we’ll learn what matters to you in choosing a therapist and look for people who may be a good fit. This can take up to four weeks. We’ll share information about the therapists so you can choose whom you’d like to meet. After you tell us your choice, the therapist will contact you to arrange a consultation.
If you both decide to work together, you’ll arrange your sessions directly with your therapist. A Home Within’s matching work ends there, giving you and your therapist the space to build your relationship together.
Keep an eye out for emails from admin@ahomewithin.org during this process. Hint: Check your spam folder if you don’t see an email from us in your inbox!
Complete the service agreement and referral within 3 business days of receipt.
My intuition and my discernment is something that is held in high regard in our work together. That’s something I wasn’t used to. I’m used to receiving the treatment and something being done to me. At AHW, my therapist gives me the space to bring my whole self into the session and explore some of the wisdom that I already hold.
– A Home Within Client
My life has been a series of bad lucks and good lucks. The parents I got were bad luck. Some of my foster homes were really bad luck. My last foster family was one of the best lucks I’ve had. Finding A Home Within is very, very good luck.
– A Home Within Client
I can’t believe something like this exists, with no deadline for ending. I can’t think of a group of people who need that more than us [foster youth].
– A Home Within Client
This is all I want for her. This little girl has had more forced changes than anyone should have their whole life. I’m trying to be as consistent as I can for her, but she needs more of that. She needs to see that I’m not the only one.
– Adopted mother of A Home Within Client
My therapist has helped me so much in just the first 6 sessions. I look forward to it every week. Thank you for matching me with her, I can’t thank you enough!
– A Home Within Client
I don’t want to be known as someone that just survived and made it through. I was resilient. I did what I was supposed to do, but also, I still need love, I still need support even though I was strong, I still needed someone to ask me if I was okay. And often we’re not checking on the strong people.
– A Home Within Client
A Home Within… provide[s] proof to foster youth that we matter as much as everyone else who walks this earth. That recognition alone gives me a source of strength to keep going when I’m struggling to justify my existence.
– A Home Within Client
