TESTIMONIALS

July 7th 2020

I’d just like to shout out @PineappleYSW! For 2 months now I’ve been seeing my therapist at price that I can afford. They’re amazing and comfortable with the adult industry, I never feel like I’m facing judgement. They are also knowledgeable about specifics to my mental health.
Specifics that in the past others were not which made it super difficult to navigate certain things. Also, when I hit a few bumps in the beginning with my application @PineappleYSW support team responded quickly and resolved the issues. thank you.

June 25th 2020

This group right here, @PineappleYSW, they helped save my life after my devastating car crash last year heading to @EXXXOTICAtv Portland. My therapist Pam through them has been the best thing to happen to me out of that whole thing. I wouldn’t be here without her. #endthestigma

June 13th 2020

Once again gratitude this resource exists. Having sessions with a sex positive SW friendly therapist is amazing.

1st of all you don’t need to spend 4+ sessions trying to justify your profession & 2nd they work with your budget.

Please use this resource!!!!

June 13th 2020

These folks are legit, in my experience. In these unheard-of times, reach out if you need someone outside your circle to talk to. @PineappleYSW

June 13th 2020

@PineappleYSW are the most helpful humans to make the process super easy 😉

June 3rd 2020

Just had my first therapy session through @PineappleYSW. They matched me with someone local who I don’t need to educate about my work, so I’m pretty happy about that.

June 2nd 2020

Black models that need a black woman as their counselor/therapist @PineappleYSW hooked me up with Kamil.

May 27th 2020

Thank you Pineapple Support for being available for SO many fellow performres. It is VERY difficult for us to find the right type of therapist because of our careers & situations. If you need support please dont hesitate to reach out to them.

May 27th 2020

Therapy went really, really well. That was my first session in years. I like my new therapist and I’m looking forward to more sessions. Thank you @PineappleYSW for helping me find someone who works with my budget and is close to me so I can do office visits if I want.

May 26th 2020

Thank you to @PineappleYSW for finding me a therapist

If you need someone to talk to, help coping, etc! Please please please contact them-

It’s okay to not be okay but please know you aren’t alone and there are resources for you.

May 26th 2020

Just wanted to check in & say I had my first therapy appointment this afternoon. Aimee seems great & have another appointment with her. Thank you for putting us in touch!

May 26th 2020

thank you to @PineappleYSW for hosting a weekly industry-only Distress Tolerance Skills class during this incredibly stressful time; I learned so much

May 18th 2020

I cannot recommend @PineappleYSW enough y’all! The headspace I’m in now, compared to when I called the suicide hotline in December, is night and day. I’m so happy I found someone who is invested in my healing.

May 18th 2020

I just finished my 30 minute chat and guided meditation with Ingrid from Pineapple Support and I feel amazing. THANK YOU Pineapple Support and Streamate for all the opportunities like this that you provide for our industry. Mental health awareness is so important!

May 16th 2020

Pineapple Support got me an absolutely amazing therapist! And in my lifetime I’ve had maybe 15+ so I’m annoyingly picky, but she has made my last month and a half so much better.. definitely contact them!

May 14th 2020

I love Pineapple Support and love my therapist I got through them. Serious lifesavers!

May 12th 2020

If it wasn’t for Pineapple Support I wouldn’t be able to get through my petty problems/drama. This company reminds me why I work so hard for them and my own mental health.

May 6th 2020

For my fellow performers, I very much recommend checking out
@PineappleYSW’s wellness resources. They’ve helped me tremendously this past year with managing my mental health, I can’t recommend them enough–especially right now.

May 5th 2020

I just had my first phone session with my wonderful therapists courtesy of Pineapple Support and I cannot recommend them enough. I feel so seen and heard and validated right now.

May 4th 2020

Pineapple Support are absolutely amazing and I love my SWer & disability-friendly tele-therapist so much. She has SIGNIFICANTLY changed my life for the better.

April 5th 2020

Pineapple Support has given me the tools to turn my life around and ground myself in life and through this industry. Cannot wait until group later and to finish the essay I wrote on how they have helped me.

April 5th 2020

Sex workers: if you’re in need of a therapist I can’t recommend going through
@PineappleYSW enough. My therapist is amazing and it’s pay what you can if your budget is limited

March 24th 2020

I just wanted to thank you for the addiction support group. I’ve gotten a lot out of the first two weeks and am looking forward to the upcoming weeks. Nicki is amazing! 🙂

March 10th 2020

I just had the best therapy session Beating heart if you’re struggling or want to help other SWs, I can’t recommend @PineappleYSW enough!

March 5th 2020

Thank you for all that you do and providing this space. I think it’s so important to normalize discussing these issues. Pineapple is doing a wonderful job of giving us a place to do that.

March 5th 2020

A huge thank you to @PineappleYSW, if they didn’t exist I wouldn’t be seeking any sort of help so thank fuck they do.

February 28th 2020

Thank you for letting me reach out for therapy and helping support my sessions! This is such a great service to provide SW’rs.

February 26th 2020

This a great place for a plug for my @PineappleYSW therapist. The ability to be TOTALLY honest about what’s going on in my life has helped more in the last month than all the therapy in my last 30 years combined!

February 26th 2020

Therapy is the shit, I don’t care what kinda bullshit stigma surrounds it…. I AM HEALING AND I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT IT. Everyone (SERIOUSLY everyone) should have a therapist. We’ve all experienced trauma. Go to @PineappleYSW for all of your SW friendly therapist needs.

February 20th 2020

Big thank you to Pineapple Support, I have restarted therapy through them and it has helped me so much. I was definitely spiraling, again (ugh). Taking steps to take care of myself has brought so much relief.

February 12th 2020

Therapy today with Pineapple Support was revelations. Only you can do you and only you can have your own back.

February 6th 2020

Just had my 1st session of therapy and i am so happy. I never thought I would find a therapist that I truly felt comfortable with!.

December 30th 2019

Thank you Pineapple Support.

You just started me on my journey to a better me, stronger me and happier me.

I don’t know what I’d do without you.

December 20th 2019

Thank you Pineapple Support for your connection to my amazing therapist. Not only do I have solo & couple sessions with her regularly, but she went above and beyond to help me get in contact with a good psychiatrist who was able to help with treating my mental disorders.

December 8th 2019

So thankful for Pineapple Support, especially where I’m at right now. In a several week long group program and looking forward to tomorrow’s meeting!

December 7th 2019

I used Pineapple Support for online therapy when I was too down to leave the house and couldn’t afford therapy on my own. Please help them out if you can and reach out to them if you’re a sex worker and think their services could benefit you.

December 4th 2019

Pineapple Support is literally the only reason I’m healthy and thriving and happy.

December 4th 2019

I’m a patient with a therapist in the Pineapple Support network and I’m starting therapy again tomorrow. Thank you Pineapple for changing my rate to I can afford to go.

December 3rd 2019

We need more non-profits like Pineapple Support. I worked at a mental health clinic (as a MSW therapist) that received tons of money but I was never able to fully help clients the way they needed to be helped. I burned out and lost hope. You restored my faith.

November 25th 2019

I love that I am getting my services through Pineapple Support. Definitely has been making it easier to talk about things because they work with SWs – so that feeling of do I bring it up isn’t there. It’s talked about before even being matched with a therapist.

November 12th 2019

Pineapple Support are great. The person I’m in contact with is fantastic and very easy to talk to. And trust is not an issue!

November 11th 2019

Pineapple Support – I can vouch for them; accessible services and it was the best decision I ever made for myself. Because of them you get the sexiest me possible!

October 30th 2019

As I cruise around this summit, all I can think of is how to thank you for this amazing treatment I’ve needed for so long.

October 29th 2019

I had a significantly better day today and I really want to credit Pineapple Support. I have made more progress this month with my new therapist than the entire time spent with any previous therapist.

October 27th 2019

I highly recommend Pineapple Support for any sex worker that needs the extra support. Last month I was struggling with suicidal ideology and Pineapple Support was able to refer me to a local therapist. I’ve been for four weeks consistently and am beginning EMDR therapy.
I’m finally feeling emotionally stable and supported. I’m no longer caught in the all so familiar shame spiral. I still have a lot of work head of me but the key is asking for help and then actually using those resources.

October 27th 2019

I’m just super thankful for my new therapist with Pineapple Support. She’s been amazing helping me process things.

October 27th 2019

I want to personally thank you for being a part of my finding a therapist who is qualified to help me. I am so grateful that your organization made it so easy for me to get the access I needed in my situation.

October 17th 2019

I highly recommend sex workers use this service! Pineapple Support has been a blessing!

October 13th 2019

I started therapy through Pineapple Support and they are amazing! I now do text sessions with a therapist who is also a sex worker and sex work friendly and she is amazing! I’m so grateful for Pineapple! I hope it is helpful for you as well!

October 10th 2019

Thanks to Pineapple Support I’ve been able to see a therapist regularly again despite being uninsured.

If you need help, know that it’s okay to reach out.

October 10th 2019

I would like to say thank you to Pineapple Support for helping me find such an amazing therapist. She is understanding, she is caring, she makes me feel like I have the tools to go on when sometimes I feel that I don’t. She’s helped me tremendously.
I’ve been in and out of therapy since I was a young child and she is by far the BEST therapist I’ve ever had including those I have met in person. I highly recommend her practice (Blue Pearl Therapy) & their services offered by Pineapple Support. It really helps. There’s hope.

October 4th 2019

Just had my first therapy session with a therapist set up by Pineapple Support. Soo grateful to have affordable access to sex positive mental health support.

September 25th 2019

Thank you for connecting me with a SW friendly therapist in my area Pineapple Support.

I have my first appointment tomorrow and it makes a difference knowing I have support.

September 25th 2019

Thanks to Pineapple Support, a complete blessing, my therapist is an angel.

September 8th 2019

Pineapple Support is a fantastic resource for anyone and everyone! Not only are they available 24/7 with listeners, therapists and various other resources- but they make getting the help that I personally need at an affordable price so that I may speak with a therapist more often without needing to go through the perils of insurance companies and deductibles just to get stuck with someone who may not listen or even worse, have a bias against my line of work that presents an obstacle so large that deeper issues are never addressed. I myself struggle with PTSD, or C-PTSD if working out of the DSM-5 and I need help. I need someone to talk to, and then obviously, I need to be able to speak about work and how all of these things come together and affect my everyday life. Pineapple Support makes this possible. I cannot sing their praises more often or loudly enough. Thank you, Pineapple Support!

September 8th 2019

The support that I have received and continue to receive from Pineapple Support has been overwhelming amazing and magnanimously helpful. Every person with which I have interacted has been extremely friendly and I can’t help but feel comfortable discussing everything on my mind- including some of my most private issues. One of my biggest struggles that they are currently assisting me with is getting over sexual abuse that happened when I was younger and being able to open up and trust the people closest to me whom I love and those who love me for who I am, as well as accepting that these people do in fact love me for who I am. Pineapple Support are helping me find my voice so that I may speak up, speak out and be the person who I want and am meant to be!

September 3rd 2019

I’ve suffered with mental health issues for a while. As an adult model I have been stigmatised with the support I have been given previously. I had always been told that moving away from the industry would solve all my issues.
Thankfully, Pineapple support provided me with a therapist who has helped me in ways I couldn’t imagine and I’m so grateful. I am giving back to other performers by being a listener for Pineapple and helping support others like me who are missing out on stigma free care.

September 1st 2019

I’ve been using Pineapple Support for therapy and it has been AMAZING. Just another resource.
My therapist I got through there has been my rock. And the app they are connected to has some great resources as well.

August 31st 2019

Since growing up in a neglectful and abusive household depression and anxiety have always been a part of my life. Losing my own mother to suicide as a pre-teen put me into a deep state of self destruction that lasted years.
When I reached out to Pineapple and was received with love and support from leya and her team, I felt a new found feeling of support and love. A judgement free environment that not only allowed me to work out the issues I was having at that time, being cyber bullied, but to also begin the process of truly loving myself and moving forward after a childhood or trauma and hardship that my immature mind was too young to understand or process.
The unconditional support and care provided to the clients of pineapple is like nothing we’ve ever had or experienced before. Pineapple provides judgement free listeners and professional therapists who embrace who you are and what you do. They are there to help and I am beyond grateful to have found them.

August 29th 2019

I know with life, death happens, but i never wanted it to happen to my family or friends. I always dreaded the day that my grandmother would leave this world but never did I expect my mothers life to be taken before her own mothers. I am my mother’s only child and never ever did I think about losing her, more or less watching cancer slowly take her away from me or having rush home from Mexico to find her in a morphine induced coma to barely make it back in time to say my final farewells to her. I know she heard me and as I begged her not to leave me. I begged for forgiveness, I begged her to stay, I held her hand her last breath. I will never ever forget this moment and it will always bring tears!

If it wasn’t for Leya and the Pineapple support team and her truly compassionate team of listeners, i honestly don’t know how I would’ve coped with my first death, my mothers death, suffering and now my own internal suffering now and always. My Mother supported me in my adult work more so than anyone else in my life. I will forever be grateful for her allowing me to follow my dreams and support me in every way she could.

Altho I know others deal with death, I never thought I would have too and if it wasn’t for Pineapple support, I honestly don’t know if I would still be here. They gave me strength, the time, their time, their words of empowerment to keep going and that I was not and still am not alone.

I am comforted knowing Pineapple Support listenrs are there for me when I am feeling low, sad, alone, or depressed, and this is a godsend to me. Thank you for listening to me, even when it was simply the sound of tears being heard, just knowing someone cares about my well being gives me the strength to keep on doing what I love in the adult business.

August 27th 2019

To anyone having a tough day, week, year, whatever, you deserve support. You deserve to be heard. Please contact Pineapple Support to be connected with a therapist in your area that is non biased about sexwork and wants to help. You only have to pay what you can afford.

As someone who got connected with a therapist via Pineapple Support I promise it’s worth it. Therapy has helped me, so many of my friends, and I know it can help you 💜

August 16th 2019

Pineapple Support couldn’t have been better at helping me find amazing mental health support.

August 13th 2019

Such fantastic people! The industry is so fortunate to have folks like them and all the labour they put in for SW and survivors! Thank you Pineapple Support! Your work is so transformative and important!

August 11th 2019

Pineapple Support’s help literally saved my life.

July 31st 2019

Thank you Pineapple Support for connecting me with a therapist who is sensitive to the needs of the adult industry. 💙

July 11th 2019

I care about my mental health and my life and how I treat myself and others. Therapy is an amazing tool and I’m so fortunate to have access to it! Looking forward to my weekly appointment with my therapist who is both sex worker friendly and an actual sex worker. I love her.

I’ve been searching for adequate and affordable therapy for my mental health since I was a teenager, before I was even a sex worker. It was that much harder after. I’m so appreciative of everyone involved with this idea and privilege! ❤️

July 11th 2019

I love my therapist. What a relief. I’m so happy I finally found someone. 😭 Thank you so much @PineappleYSW for connecting me to her.

July 10th 2019

Bb’s, if you’re a SW who struggles with mental health of any kind once again I’d like to recommend Pineapple Support (@PineappleYSW ). I’ve been seeing my therapist they connected me with for almost a month and she’s drastically helping my mental state & entire life. Your services are appreciated. (& blue pearl therapy services specifically is an amazing provider) thank you😌

As you know, our income can vary and sometimes we don’t have insurance for traditional healthcare. Pineapple Support helps you find an affordable way for care. Plz. Reach out.

July 3rd 2019

@PineappleYSW is here to help. I actually get my therapy via Pineapple. The sigma w/ this industry is no joke. That’s hardest aspect to deal with. Often many of us lead double lives bcuz many people in RL cannot separate or work from who we are. I’ve found @PineappleYSW is here to help. I actually get my therapy via Pineapple. The sigma w/ this ind understands our unique lifestyle & situations.

The general public doesn’t deal with situations like being “outed” in their community. Or the type of isolation a performer can feel. Even if I preach mental toughness getting help is part of it.

July 3rd 2019

I am lucky to have found @PineappleYSW I suggest any one who needs help in the adult industry turn to them.

July 2nd 2019

Just had my first therapy session through @PineappleYSW … If you are having a hard time & you’re the industry, PLEASE utilize this resource. It was SO easy to apply, had my session online from home, it is sliding scale so anyone can afford it.

June11th 2019

I get my therapy through this organization and it is awesome. If you ever are looking for an awesome way to support sex workers may I recommend Pineapple Support.

April 26th 2019

Just had an awesome first session with a new therapist thanks to Pineapple Support.

April 1st 2019

I just had my consultation session w/ the only therapist I’ve ever had the balls to see thanks to @PineappleYSW My therapist is a SWer, too, and such a breath of fresh air! I HIGHLY recommend visiting https://pineapplesupport.org  if you are a SWer in need of mental health services!