The Diversity Center provides free high quality, LGBTQ+ affirming mental health services to Youth, Family members, adults, seniors, & LGBTQ+ residents of Santa Cruz County.
Mental wellbeing services include individual counseling, relational counseling, family counseling, group counseling and case management.
Our approach is strength-based and trauma-informed, engaging one’s self-agency, resiliency and natural- and chosen-family supports whenever possible.
Our mental health services are currently conducted by our licensed therapist Cybele Lolley, LMFT and Tracy Korpela, Associate Licensed Professional Counselor under clinical supervision.
The Diversity Center can offer these services at no charge because of securing grants and receiving generous donations for mental health services.
The Diversity Center Mental Health Program Team 2024-2025.
Master Level Counseling Student Trainees (Left to Right): Hannah Claire Becker, Amanda Helton, Alexia Lomeli & Cybele Lolley, LMFT (Supervisor)
Crisis Services
If you are in a crisis, or need someone to talk to right away:
Call 9-8-8 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline (24/7)
Call The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ confidential free hotline, at 866-488-7386 (24/7)
Call Trans Lifeline at 877-565-8860 to speak with a counselor (24/7).
You can also call the Crisis Stabilization Program at 831-600-2800.
For mental health emergencies, please call 9-1-1 or go to your local emergency room for immediate assistance.
Internship Program Placements
The Diversity Center is growing as a mental health counseling learning environment, and we are actively recruiting other qualified psychology counseling students and post-graduate Associates. Please contact Cybele Lolley, Clinical Program Director, for more internship and/or field placement information.