Resources

These resources are to serve as an adjunct to therapy and are not intended to treat or diagnosis. These resources should be utilized while under the treatment of a trained mental health professional. If you are experiencing a worsening in symptoms or suicidal thoughts, please call 911.

I am not affiliated with these resources listed below. They are checked frequently but there is no guarantee that the links will work. Some resources are at no cost to clients while others charge for usage. Please be mindful of upfront costs or in-app purchases.

Self-Help Strategies

Websites

• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

  • 1-800-273-8255

• The Anxiety Network

• It Gets Better Project

• HealthyPlace: America's Mental Health Channel

• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

• Families Anonymous (For Friends and Family of Individuals with Drug, Alcohol, or Related Behavioral Issues)

• Co-Dependents Anonymous

• SAMHSA's National Helpline

  • 1-800-662-4357

• Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA)

• National Institute of Mental Health (NIH)

• MedlinePlus Psychotic Disorders

Mobile Apps

• What's Up (CBT and ACT to help with depression, anxiety, stress, and more)

• Moodkit (200 CBT exercises to help with improvement of mood. Helps you learn how to change how you think)

• CBT Thought Record Diary (CBT app that works on changing your emotions by identifying negative and distorted thought. Allows you to maintain a record diary)

• Calm (Some in-app purchases)

• Breathe2relax (Helpful for individuals with anxiety and PTSD)

• Headspace (Mindfulness, breathing exercises, works for anxiety, depression, PTSD, and OCD)

• What's my M3 (Allows individuals to monitor their mood and mental state (depression, bipolar, anxiety disorder, and PTSD))

• Self-Help Anxiety Management (Multiple tools to help manage symptoms of anxiety outside of the therapeutic setting)

• Happify (Mood training program that helps you fast-track to a good mood)

Books

• Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by Doug Abrams, Julie Gottman, and Rachel Carlton Abrams

• A Death of One's Own by Gerda Lerner

• A Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

• An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison (BP)

• Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel

• As Nature Made Him by John Colapinto

• Beautiful Boy by David Sheff-Addition

• The Body Keeps Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

• Daring Greatly by Brené Brown

• Dare to Lead by Brené Brown

• Devils in the Details by Jennifer Traig (OCD)

• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

• Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson

• I Think You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• Look Me in The Eyes by John Elder Robison

• My Lobotomy by Charles Fleming and Howard Dully

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

• Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel (MDD)

• Self Compassion by Kristin Neff

• Skin Game by Caroline Kettlewell (SIB)

• The Soloist by Steve Lopez

• Why Am I Like This: True Stories by Cynthia Kaplan

• Why I Jumped by Tina Zahn

Podcasts

• Unlocking Us by Brené Brown

Articles

• Vicarious Trauma in Clinicians: Fostering Resilience and Preventing Burnout by Gertie Quitangon, MD