When a 28-year old Boston artist and entrepreneur who goes by HAAWWS went looking for therapy earlier this year, he found it in a barbershop.
Barbershops have long been known as places where Black men go for fellowship and support, as well as informal therapy. But through the mental health initiative The Barbershop Clinic, a Nubian Square barbershop is the gathering place for formal group therapy sessions.
On his first visit, HAAWWS says, he wept…