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Our Approach Is To Accompany Individuals On Their Journey Of Personal Growth Towards Their Authentic Selves
What We Offer
Your privacy and comfort are paramount. Our mental health support services operate in a confidential and inclusive environment where everyone is respected and celebrated for their unique journey.
If you or someone you know is seeking mental health support, don’t hesitate to reach out.
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One-to-one therapy sessions provide a confidential and supportive space to explore personal challenges, build coping strategies, and work toward emotional well-being with a licensed mental health professional.
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Couples therapy offers a structured and supportive environment to improve communication, strengthen connection, and navigate relationship challenges together with a trained therapist.
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Group therapy provides a safe and supportive space to share experiences, build connection, and gain insight through guided discussions with others facing similar challenges.
Strengthening Social Connections Using Psychodrama
Join us for a powerful and interactive monthly psychodrama support group designed to deepen connection, build empathy, and support personal
Strengthening Social Connections Using Psychodrama
Facilitated by Daisy Martinez-Dicarlo, LMHC, TEP (she/her)
Join us starting back on May 30, 2026, June 27th, July 11th and August 1st
2pm-4pm
Join us for a powerful and interactive monthly psychodrama support group designed to deepen connection, build empathy, and support personal healing through creative expression.
Psychodrama is an experiential form of therapy rooted in action it invites participants to explore real-life experiences, emotions, and relationships through guided storytelling, movement, and role-play. In this supportive and affirming space, participants are encouraged to connect with themselves and others in meaningful ways, fostering stronger social bonds and a deeper sense of belonging.
Facilitated by licensed mental health counselor and certified trainer/educator/practitioner Daisy Martinez-Dicarlo, this group integrates Theater for Social Justice principles centering community voices, lived experiences, and collective healing.
✨ What to Expect:
Guided psychodrama exercises and group activities
Opportunities for self-expression through movement and storytelling
A supportive, confidential, and inclusive environment
Connection-building with others in the community
Exploration of social themes, identity, and personal growth
🗓 When: Monthly on Saturdays
📍 Where: Fab LGBTQIA+ Center, 925 N Lime Ave, Sarasota, FL
💜 Cost: Free and open to the community (18+)
No prior experience with theater or psychodrama is needed just come as you are.
This offering is part of our ongoing commitment to providing accessible mental health and healing-centered programming for our LGBTQIA+ community, where art and connection come together to inspire growth and resilience.
The Susan Terry Legacy Series:
Affirming Care & Radical Healing
Grief & Loss Group
(HIV Affected)
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Structured
Trauma-informed
Educational
Process-oriented
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Participants will experience this group as:
A safe, nonjudgmental space to grieve losses that may feel invisible or misunderstood
A place where grief related to HIV is normalized and shared
A balance of storytelling, emotional processing, and gentle structure
A space to honor both individual loss and collective/community grief
Many participants will come in carrying:
Multiple losses over time
Complicated grief (unresolved, layered, or delayed)
Experiences of stigma that limited their ability to grieve openly
Pre-screening and prior registration required for all participants.
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Length & Format
6 weeks (closed group) A closed group format is important here to:
Build trust
Allow deeper emotional work
Maintain continuity of shared grief narratives
90 minutes per session including break
6–8 participants max (important for privacy, safety and depth)
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Grace@fabaf.org
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Capacity: Limited to 6–8 participants per group to ensure privacy, safety, and depth.
Timeline & Format:
Prescreening & Registration Deadline: Friday, August 14, 2026
Group Cycle Begins: Tuesday, September 1, 2026, at 6:00 PM
Format: 6 weeks (closed group format), 90 minutes per session (including a break).
Please note: Pre-screening and prior registration are required for all participants to ensure
emotional safety, build trust and allow deeper emotional work.
Funded by the Susan Terry Foundation
The Susan Terry Foundation (a 501c3 Charitable organization) was established in 2024 to honor the life of the visionary leader and fearless advocate who founded CAN Community Health.
With a mission to support communities affected by HIV, the Foundation advances prevention, education and care. Dedicated to knocking down the socioeconomic, educational and bureaucratic barriers faced by those living with HIV, the Foundation envisions a future where they are celebrated for their resilience, embraced without prejudice, and empowered to achieve their dreams.
Through its community-focused Grant Program, the Susan Terry Foundation supports mission- aligned opportunities and
Intersectional Identity & Trauma Support Group
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Structured
Trauma-informed
Educational
Process-oriented
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This group addresses the cumulative impact of HIV-related stigma and other forms of discrimination (e.g., race, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status).
The intervention promotes healing through culturally responsive, identity-affirming care.
Participants experience this group as:
A deeply validating space where multiple identities are seen (not separated)
A place where they can connect patterns (e.g., “this isn’t just me—it’s systemic + relational + internalized”)
A balance of processing + skill-building (not just venting or storytelling)
A trauma-informed environment where safety and pacing are prioritized
Intended Outcomes:
Reduced trauma-related distress
Increased identity integration
Improved psychological well-being
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Length & Format
6 weeks (closed group) A closed group format is important here to:
Build trust
Allow deeper emotional work
Maintain continuity of shared grief narratives
90 minutes per session including break
6–8 participants max (important for privacy, safety and depth)
Target Population: Individuals with multiple marginalized identities.
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grace@fabaf.org
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Capacity: Limited to 6–8 participants max to ensure privacy, safety, and depth.
Timeline & Format:
Schedule: Meets once a month on the last Thursday of the month.
Group Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2026, at 6:00 PM
Format: 1 hour per session (closed group format).
How to Refer or Inquire: If you know someone who could benefit from these
spaces, or if you have any questions about the registration and prescreening
processes, please reply directly to this email or contact us at:
mailto:shannon.fortner@fabaf.org and mailto:grace@fabaf.org
Support Groups
Together, we hold space for the full range of experiences - joys, challenges, questions, and everything in between.
Facilitated by queer and/or trans mental health professionals, these groups center compassion, respect, and the right to self-define.
They/Them & Friends
Nonbinary & Gender Non-Conforming Support Group
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Join us for our monthly (first Wednesday of the month) Nonbinary & Gender Non-Conforming Support Group, a confidential, affirming space created by and for folks who identify outside the binary. Whether you're exploring your gender, have been out for years, or are anywhere in between, this group offers a space to connect, share, and be supported in community. Together, we hold space for the full range of experiences joys, challenges, questions, and everything in between. Facilitated by queer/ or trans mental health professionals, this group centers compassion, respect, and the right to self-define.
Group will be conducted in person and is open to all nonbinary, genderqueer, gender non-conforming, agender, bigender, and questioning individuals!
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Every First Wednesday starting at 7 pm, at The Maddox Gallery.
Register today!
Celebrating Neurodiversity
A Space for Neuro-Affirming Connection
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Participants will experience this group as:
Our Celebrating Neurodiversity Support Group is a welcoming, affirming space for neurodivergent folks to connect, share experiences, and support one another in community. Whether you’re autistic, ADHD, dyslexic, have sensory processing differences, or identify anywhere along the neurospicy spectrum—you belong here.
This group meets 1PM on the last Saturday of the month and is facilitated by queer and neurodivergent mental health professionals who honor the diverse ways our brains work. Together, we create a space that values self-expression, mutual care, and collective understanding.
Open to all neurodivergent individuals—diagnosed, self-diagnosed, or exploring—especially those navigating life as LGBTQIA+ and/or BIPOC.
🌈 Come as you are: stim freely, use devices, take breaks. Your needs are valid, and accommodations are always welcome.
Group will be conducted in person and is open to all nonbinary, genderqueer, gender non-conforming, agender, bigender, and questioning individuals!
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Every last Saturday starting at 1pm, at The Maddox Gallery+ Center.
Register today!
Our Mental Health Admin
Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Marriage and Family Therapy Intern
National Certified Counselor
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Grace Korley is a licensed mental health therapist and mental health programming chair for Fabulous Arts Foundation.
Their therapeutic approach is holistic, strength-based, and affirming—honoring diverse identities and lived experience as integral to shaping goals for sustainable wellness.
Coming from a background in both group mental health private practice and community mental health settings, and private practice ownership.
Grace’s clinical work shares its mission with Fabulous Arts Foundation, fighting for queer and trans rights in Florida, and acknowledging major discrepancies in access to quality mental healthcare, marginalized communities, and folks left out by traditional mental health services.
Grace’s specialties include
BIPOC identities
College Students
Self-Esteem
Eating Disorders, Disordered Eating, and Body Dysmorphia
Neurodivergence (ADHD/Autism /Sensory Processing Disorders)
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
LGBTQIAA+ identities
Immigrants/ or 1st Gen Immigrants
Trauma Processing
Generational Trauma
Compassion Fatigue
Family, Couples & Relationship Therapy
Borderline Personality Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
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