Counseling & Crisis Resources
Whether you're experiencing a mental health crisis or simply looking for affordable counseling options, help is available. Reaching out is a sign of strength, and you don't have to navigate things alone.
Emergency & Crisis Support
If you or someone you know is in immediate emotional distress or experiencing a mental health crisis, please use one of the following resources:
Reduced-Fee & Community Resources
If you're looking for counseling services or need help finding a therapist, these resources may be helpful:
Book Resources
While no book can replace the work we do together in therapy, the right book can offer hope, deepen your understanding, and remind you that you're not alone. Below are some of our favorite recommendations, organized by topic.
Personal Growth & Self-Discovery
Books that inspire self-reflection, resilience, and personal growth.
Grief & Loss
Whether you're grieving the death of a loved one, a life transition, or another meaningful loss, these books offer comfort and guidance.
Trauma & Healing
These books help explain how trauma impacts the mind and body while offering hope for healing.
Anxiety & Emotional Wellbeing
Resources to help calm the nervous system, better understand anxiety, and build emotional resilience.
Diverse Voices
Healing is enriched when we learn from people with different lived experiences, cultures, and perspectives. These authors offer thoughtful insights into identity, relationships, trauma, resilience, and personal growth.
Whether you're experiencing a mental health crisis or simply looking for affordable counseling options, help is available. Reaching out is a sign of strength, and you don't have to navigate things alone.
Emergency & Crisis Support
If you or someone you know is in immediate emotional distress or experiencing a mental health crisis, please use one of the following resources:
- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
- Call or text 988 to connect with a trained crisis counselor 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- Crisis Text Line
- Text HOME to 741741 to receive free, confidential support from a trained crisis counselor.
- National Domestic Violence Hotline
- Call 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or text START to 88788 for confidential support, safety planning, and local resources.
- Veterans Crisis Line--Veterans, active-duty service members, and their loved ones can call or text 988, then press 1, text 838255, or visit VeteransCrisisLine.net/Chat for free, confidential support 24/7.
Reduced-Fee & Community Resources
If you're looking for counseling services or need help finding a therapist, these resources may be helpful:
- Talk with Your Primary Care Physician or Gynecologist - Your healthcare provider can often recommend trusted mental health professionals and connect you with local resources.
- Your Local Community Service Board (CSB) - Community Service Boards provide affordable, sliding-scale, and, in some cases, no-cost mental health services based on eligibility.
- Psychology Today Therapist Directory - Search for licensed therapists by location, specialty, insurance, and more. Reading therapist profiles can help you find someone who feels like the right fit for your needs.
Book Resources
While no book can replace the work we do together in therapy, the right book can offer hope, deepen your understanding, and remind you that you're not alone. Below are some of our favorite recommendations, organized by topic.
Personal Growth & Self-Discovery
Books that inspire self-reflection, resilience, and personal growth.
- The Wealthy Spirit – Cultivating a healthier relationship with money, abundance, and self-worth.
- The Gifts of Imperfection – Letting go of perfectionism and embracing authenticity.
- The Mountain Is You – Understanding self-sabotage and creating lasting change.
- The Four Agreements – Four simple yet powerful principles for living with greater freedom and intention.
Grief & Loss
Whether you're grieving the death of a loved one, a life transition, or another meaningful loss, these books offer comfort and guidance.
- It's OK That You're Not OK – A compassionate reminder that grief isn't something to "fix."
- The Grief Recovery Handbook – Practical tools for moving through unresolved grief.
- Miss You Already – A heartfelt novel exploring friendship, love, and anticipatory grief.
Trauma & Healing
These books help explain how trauma impacts the mind and body while offering hope for healing.
- What Happened to You? – Understanding trauma through compassion rather than blame.
- The Body Keeps the Score – How trauma affects the brain, body, and nervous system.
- My Grandmother's Hands – Exploring racialized trauma and healing through the body.
- What My Bones Know – A moving memoir of healing from complex trauma.
Anxiety & Emotional Wellbeing
Resources to help calm the nervous system, better understand anxiety, and build emotional resilience.
- Calm in the Chaos: A Guide to Finding Peace Amid Political Anxiety
- Buggin' Out: An Anxiety & Mindfulness Guide for Kids & Teens
Diverse Voices
Healing is enriched when we learn from people with different lived experiences, cultures, and perspectives. These authors offer thoughtful insights into identity, relationships, trauma, resilience, and personal growth.
- Permission to Come Home by Jenny T. Wang
- Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawwab
- All About Love by bell hooks
- My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem
- What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo
- Don't Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen
- The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté
- The Deepest Well by Nadine Burke Harris