A barber and beauty shop in southwest Baltimore strives to create a safe space where people can talk about mental health.The barbershop is the T.I.M.E. Organization's self care station. The T.I.M.E. Organization is an outpatient mental health clinic and shelter. It's so much more than a barbershop. To Tevin Harper, it's a place and a time he looks forward to."Not even just to get my hair cut, for conversation," Harper said.Harper has conversations with barber Derel Owens about everything from mental health to past traumas to ways to create a better future."As a barber, we are like clinical therapists almost. This is a therapy session for myself and for the person who is in the chair," Owens said.Shareese Kess worked with Rob's Barbershop Community Foundation and the T. Rowe Price Foundation to bring the shop into T.I.M.E. Organization so that people already receiving mental health treatment and other resources could have another safe space."A lot of people are suffering with trauma, with grief, with loss, and some individuals were taught not to express their feelings, and in general, Black and brown men. So here, we have a strong Black and brown man who is providing the services who is saying it's OK to get help," said Kess, director of community-based program engagement and development at the T.I.M.E. Organization."I feel like it is the most important thing for Black men to be able to have a space to express themselves, to be vulnerable, to deal with the trauma, to unpack whatever issues it is that they are going through, because, like suicide, suicidal ideologies, these things happen," Owens said.The death of celebrity DJ Stephen "tWitch" Boss is sparking conversations across the country about mental health, specifically in Black men. But there are so many more cases, so many more names that aren't known.According to the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, suicide rates within the Black community are peaking in teens and young adults. The stats also show the suicide death rate for Black men is more than three times the rate for Black women. That's why Owens takes his job as a barber very seriously, knowing he can also be a listening ear or a lifeline."To have the opportunity to provide a safe space, to provide resources, to do outreach so that a person has the ability to unpack the issues they're dealing with is the single most important issue that I can think of," Owens said.Since October, more than 70 people have had their hair done at the shop for free. The shop needs more beauticians to help out. For more information on how you can get involved, e-mail skesslewis@timeorganization.org or call 443-872-2230.If you or someone you know needs help, you can talk with the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by calling or sending a text message to 988, or you can chat online here.