CREATIVE KUPONYA
CK Origin Story
Jamil and Sara Stamschror-Lott founded Creative Kuponya in 2017 as a response to the shortcomings of the traditional medicalized mental health models. Their mission: Provide Room, Relief, and Resource to our relationships with others and within ourselves through creative avenues.
As word spread, Creative Kuponya’s work grew into partnerships with numerous agencies, nonprofits, restaurants, school systems, law firms, faith communities, and municipalities.
During that time, they also developed their Transformative Community Healing model—a bold approach to large-scale community care that goes beyond the therapy room.
Then 2020 happened…
Therapy requests quadrupled under the strain of COVID and the tragic murder of George Floyd. In the civil unrest that followed, Creative Kuponya lost its offices in a fire. Thanks to the community’s generosity, the team rebuilt—and used the remaining donations to launch the Kuponya Therapy Fund, offering no-cost therapy sessions to individuals and families in need.
To date, Creative Kuponya has provided over 6,500 low or no-cost therapy sessions, delivered hundreds of psychoeducation presentations and keynotes, and facilitated countless Transformative Community Healing sessions—meeting people where they are, and changing how healing happens.
