Mental Health Resources
Navigating the mental health system and understanding the many facets of mental health can be challenging. Check out a list of directories, organizations, books, and apps that can support your journey.
Free Worksheets
Inner Child Exploration Workbook
A worksheet that allows exploration of emotional and psychological wounds that have developed during formative childhood years, which may impact current sense of self and relationships
Grief Guide & Reflection Workbook
Learn about the basics of understanding the complexity
of what you can experience emotionally, physically, behaviorally, and cognitively in grief.
Mental Health Awareness & Research
Anxiety & Depression Association of America
National Alliance on Mental Illness
Depression & Bipolar Support Alliance
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Service Agency
Mental Health Basics, Center for Disease Control
Depression, Center for Disease Control
Depression, American Psychological Association
Anxiety Disorders, National Institute of Mental Health
Black Emotional & Mental Health Collective
Mental Health Apps
Mental Health Management
Optimism (Depression and Bipolar)
Happify
Recovery Record (Eating Disorder)
Rise Up & Recover (Eating Disorder)
nOCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)
PTSD Coach ( Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
Breathe2Relax ( Anxiety)
SuperBetter (Anxiety)
Mind Shift (Anxiety)
Gottman (Various Relationship apps)
MoodKit
What's Up
The Safe Place (Education App geared towards Black community)
Meditation/Mindfulness
Headspace
Calm
Ten Percent Happier
Color Therapy (Coloring Book)
Pigment (Coloring Book)
Color Fly (Coloring Book)
Color Noir ( Coloring Book geared towards people of African descent)
Books
Reading books is a great way to learn about mental health and mental illness. Below are some of my go-to psychoeducation books.
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The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel A. van der Kolk
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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Dr. Joy DeGruy
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Its Ok that You're Not Ok by Megan Devine
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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
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Healing the Child Within by Charles Whitfield
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Attached by Amir Levine & Rachel Heller
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My Grandmothers Hands by Resmaa Menakem MSW, LICSW, SEP
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Boundaries by Nedra Tawwab