What is POCQunity?
POCQunity is an initiative in cooperation with the municipality of Utrecht and GGD region Utrecht to provide free (anonymous) psychosocial counselling to individuals from racialised queer communities.
Who is POCQunity for?
POCQunity is open to anyone who identifies as racialised, ethnicised, or migrantised (as a migrant, undocumented migrant, asylum seeker, or refugee), and is need of psychosocial support.
Are you in need of psychosocial counselling due to mental health, gender diversity and gender dysphoria, family-related issues, problems with the IND, race-, ethnic- or culture-related issues or other socio-cultural conflicts, discrimination, or due to any other reason?
Colored Qollective provides free, accessible, inclusive, and where necessary, anonymous psychosocial counselling by specialised psychosocial service providers who are part of our racialised queer community, for the racialised queer community.
What will POCQunity offer?
POCQunity was set up to provide specialised psychosocial support by people like us, for those of us who experience multiple forms of exclusion or are disillusioned from the regular mental healthcare system.
Our service providers, through their (lived) experiences and expertises, deeply understand the struggles of racialised queer people through an intersectional approach. We seek to provide a safe environment for racialised queer people to get help, and to be supported, guided, and referred to the resources and pathways they need.
How can I get access to POCQunity services?
POCQunity conversations and counselling sessions can be done online or in person, in both Dutch and English.
You can reach out to our counselors to make an appointment with them via info@pocqunity.nl or by contacting them directly via their number below during their office hours.
Meet our psychosocial service providers
Cheyenne Achthoven (she/her)
Office hours: Fridays, 10:00-16:00
Phone/WhatsApp: 0638510983
The office hours are intended for brief inquiries or introductions, after which appointments can be scheduled for further contact. Further appointments are flexible to arrange, and the waiting times are not long.
My name is Cheyenne Achthoven, and I work as a psychosocial service provider at Colored Qollective. Additionally, I am a specialised GGZ-Agoog, Cognitive Behavioral Therapist (CGW) and POH-GGZ.* In daily life I engage with social-societal or political issues and developments. As a service provider, I recognise the importance of an inclusive society, in which the diversity of our community is reflected in the existing institutions and government or welfare organisations. My goal is to be able to provide support for the recovery and empowerment of queer/trans people of colour.
GGZ stands for Geestelijke Gezondheidszorg, the Dutch mental healthcare system. The GGZ-Agoog is a mental healthcare worker specialised in supporting the personal and social recovery of people with a psychiatric disorder or addiction, either as a therapist or supervisor.
CGW stands for cognitief gedragstherapeutisch werker.
POH-GGZ stands for praktijkondersteuner huisartsenzorg GGZ, the nurse practitioner of a GP for mental healthcare.
Selina Boye (she/her)
Office hours: Thursdays, 10:00-16:00
Phone/WhatsApp: 0616021907
The office hours are intended for brief inquiries or introductions, after which appointments can be scheduled for further contact. Further appointments are flexible to arrange, and the waiting times are not long.
My name is Selina Boye, and I work as a psychosocial service provider at Colored Qollective. I am a transcultural systemic therapist, politicised psychologist, and philosopher. After years of working within the Dutch MHIC (Mental Health Industrial Complex), I am now running an independent practice.
For QT BIPOC, individual healing alone is not enough—we need systemic and structural change. In my work at POCQunity, I aim to support and empower our community in navigating the Dutch healthcare system, and finding the most appropriate care. Additionally, I offer a low-threshold therapeutic space where individuals can access compassionate, listening support when needed.