National Mental Health Resource Library

Everyone deserves compassionate, evidence-based mental health support.

This library includes resources for people of all backgrounds, identities, ages, abilities, cultures, and life experiences, including dedicated resources for LGBTQIA+ individuals, Veterans, Native American and Alaska Native communities, caregivers, children and teens, older adults, people with disabilities, and others seeking specialized support.

These resources are provided for education and connection to support. They are not a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

Need Help Right Now?

Mental health or suicide crisis: Call or text 988

Immediate physical danger: Call 911

Sexual assault or sexual abuse: Call 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or text HOPE to 64673

Domestic violence: Call 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or text START to 88788

Veteran crisis: Call 988, then Press 1, or text 838255

Child abuse: Call 1-800-422-4453 or text GO to 1-800-422-4453

Disaster-related emotional distress: Call or text 1-800-985-5990

Need local food, housing, financial, transportation, or community assistance: Call 211

1. Crisis & Immediate Help

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline

Best For: Suicidal thoughts, mental health crisis, emotional distress, substance-use crisis, or feeling overwhelmed.

Purpose: Provides free, confidential crisis support by phone, text, and online chat.

Call or Text: 988

Website: https://988lifeline.org/

Crisis Text Line

Best For: Stress, anxiety, depression, loneliness, bullying, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, or another emotional crisis.

Purpose: Provides free text-based crisis support from trained Crisis Counselors.

Text: HOME to 741741

Website: https://www.crisistextline.org/

SAMHSA National Helpline

Best For: Individuals and families looking for mental health or substance-use treatment information and referrals.

Purpose: Provides free, confidential treatment referral and information services.

Phone: 1-800-662-HELP (4357)

Website: https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/helplines/national-helpline

Find Treatment: https://findtreatment.gov/

SAMHSA Disaster Distress Helpline

Best For: Emotional distress related to natural disasters, mass violence, emergencies, infectious-disease outbreaks, or other disasters.

Purpose: Provides multilingual disaster crisis counseling to people in the United States and its territories.

Call or Text: 1-800-985-5990

Website: https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/helplines/disaster-distress-helpline

Veterans Crisis Line

Best For: Veterans, service members, and people concerned about a Veteran or service member in crisis.

Purpose: Provides confidential crisis support specifically for Veterans, service members, and their loved ones.

Call: 988, then Press 1

Text: 838255

Website: https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/

2. Mental Health Conditions & Support

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

Best For: Depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, psychosis, PTSD, personality disorders, family mental health concerns, and general mental-health education and support.

Purpose: NAMI provides mental-health education, peer support, family support, local affiliates, and a national HelpLine.

HelpLine: 1-800-950-NAMI (6264)

Text: NAMI to 62640

Hours: Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–10 p.m. ET

Website: https://www.nami.org/

Mental Health America

Best For: People trying to understand mental-health symptoms or decide whether additional help may be useful.

Purpose: Provides mental-health education, advocacy, self-help resources, and confidential online mental-health screening tools.

Website: https://mhanational.org/

Screening Tools: https://screening.mhanational.org/screening-tools/

Important: Screening tools can provide useful information but do not provide a clinical diagnosis.

Anxiety & Depression Association of America (ADAA)

Best For: Anxiety, depression, panic disorder, social anxiety, PTSD, OCD, and related conditions.

Purpose: Provides evidence-based education and resources and helps visitors locate mental-health professionals specializing in anxiety, depression, and related disorders.

Website: https://adaa.org/

International OCD Foundation (IOCDF)

Best For: OCD and related disorders.

Purpose: Provides education, treatment information, support groups, and a specialized directory of therapists and treatment programs.

Website: https://iocdf.org/

Find Help: https://iocdf.org/find-help/

CHADD

Best For: ADHD in children and adults, parents, families, and educators.

Purpose: CHADD and its National Resource Center on ADHD provide evidence-based information about ADHD, diagnosis, treatment, school, work, and family life.

Phone: 1-866-200-8098

Website: https://chadd.org/

Autism Society of America

Best For: Autistic children and adults, parents, families, caregivers, and people looking for autism-related information and support.

Purpose: The Autism Society provides education, advocacy, resources, and help connecting people with autism-related services.

Website: https://autismsociety.org/

Helpline: https://autismsociety.org/helpline/

National Alliance for Eating Disorders

Best For: Eating disorders, anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, disordered eating, and body-image concerns, as well as families and loved ones.

Purpose: Provides eating-disorder education, recovery information, resources, and a helpline.

Website: https://www.allianceforeatingdisorders.com/

Cornell University — Self-Injury & Recovery Resources

Best For: Self-harm and non-suicidal self-injury, as well as parents, loved ones, educators, and professionals.

Purpose: Cornell provides research-based information about self-injury, coping, treatment, recovery, disclosure, and supporting someone who self-injures.

Website: https://www.selfinjury.bctr.cornell.edu/

Important: If self-harm is accompanied by suicidal thoughts or an immediate mental-health crisis, call or text 988.

American Academy of Sleep Medicine — Sleep Education

Best For: Insomnia, nightmares, sleep apnea, excessive sleepiness, circadian-rhythm disorders, and other sleep concerns.

Purpose: Provides patient-friendly information about sleep disorders, symptoms, treatments, and when professional evaluation may be appropriate.

Website: https://sleepeducation.org/

3. Alcohol, Drugs, Addiction & Recovery

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)

Best For: People who want help stopping drinking.

Purpose: AA is a peer-support fellowship for people with a desire to stop drinking. Meetings are available in person, online, and by telephone.

Website: https://www.aa.org/

Find AA: https://www.aa.org/find-aa

Al-Anon Family Groups

Best For: Family members and friends affected by someone else's drinking, including people struggling with worry, caretaking, rescuing, boundaries, or feeling responsible for another person's alcohol use.

Purpose: Al-Anon provides peer support for people affected by another person's drinking. In-person and electronic meetings are available.

Website: https://al-anon.org/

Meetings: https://al-anon.org/al-anon-meetings/

Electronic Meetings: https://meetings.al-anon.org/electronic-meeting-page/

Narcotics Anonymous (NA)

Best For: People seeking peer support for recovery from drug addiction.

Purpose: NA is a peer-based Twelve-Step fellowship offering recovery meetings and community support.

Website: https://na.org/

Nar-Anon Family Groups

Best For: Families and friends affected by someone else's drug addiction.

Purpose: Provides Twelve-Step peer support for people affected by another person's addiction.

Website: https://nar-anon.org/

SMART Recovery

Best For: People seeking a non-12-Step approach to recovery from addictive behaviors.

Purpose: Provides mutual-support meetings and practical tools based on behavioral and motivational approaches.

Website: https://smartrecovery.org/

Meetings: https://meetings.smartrecovery.org/meetings/

SMART Recovery Family & Friends

Best For: Family members and friends affected by another person's addictive behavior who prefer a non-12-Step approach.

Purpose: Provides mutual support and practical strategies for coping effectively and responding to a loved one's addictive behavior.

Website: https://smartrecovery.org/family

SAMHSA — Substance Use Treatment

Best For: Alcohol, drugs, opioids, and other substance-use disorders, including co-occurring mental-health concerns.

Purpose: Provides a national treatment locator for professional substance-use and mental-health treatment.

Phone: 1-800-662-HELP (4357)

Website: https://findtreatment.gov/

National Problem Gambling Helpline

Best For: People concerned about gambling addiction or problem gambling, including family members and loved ones.

Purpose: Provides confidential help and connections to problem-gambling resources.

Call or Text: 1-800-MY-RESET

Website: https://www.ncpgambling.org/help-treatment/

4. Trauma, Abuse & Violence

RAINN — National Sexual Assault Hotline

Best For: Survivors of sexual assault, rape, sexual abuse, childhood sexual abuse, and sexual violence, as well as friends and loved ones supporting survivors.

Purpose: Provides free, confidential, 24/7 support and connections to resources.

Call: 1-800-656-HOPE (4673)

Text: HOPE to 64673

Website: https://rainn.org/help-and-healing/hotline/

National Domestic Violence Hotline

Best For: Domestic violence, relationship abuse, emotional abuse, coercive control, threats, intimidation, isolation, manipulation, and gaslighting.

Purpose: Trained advocates provide free, confidential, 24/7 support, safety planning, information, and connections to local services.

Call: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)

Text: START to 88788

Website: https://www.thehotline.org/

Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline

Best For: Child physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect, or anyone concerned about a child's safety.

Purpose: Provides confidential guidance, resources, support, and information about reporting child abuse.

Call: 1-800-422-4453

Text: GO to 1-800-422-4453

Website: https://childhelphotline.org/

If a child is in immediate danger, call 911.

VictimConnect Resource Center

Best For: Victims and survivors of crime, including violence, stalking, trafficking, and other victimization.

Purpose: Provides confidential information, referrals, and help locating victim services.

Call or Text: 1-855-4-VICTIM (1-855-484-2846)

Website: https://victimconnect.org/

Narcissistic Abuse, Gaslighting & Manipulative Relationships

The term narcissistic abuse is commonly used to describe harmful relationship patterns involving behaviors such as manipulation, gaslighting, chronic blame, humiliation, exploitation, intimidation, or coercive control.

Someone can exhibit traits or behaviors associated with narcissism without having Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

The goal is not to diagnose another person—or ourselves—but to recognize patterns of behavior and understand their effects. Diagnosis belongs to appropriately qualified professionals.

Some unhealthy behaviors may have been learned or developed as coping or survival strategies. Understanding how a behavior developed can provide insight without excusing harm.

We can recognize and address unhealthy behavior without diagnosing the person displaying it.

For intimate-partner abuse:

National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)

Text: START to 88788

Website: https://www.thehotline.org/

A Note About Trauma Recovery

Trauma can affect thoughts, emotions, relationships, physical responses, sleep, sense of safety, and the way people respond to reminders of difficult experiences.

Recovery does not look exactly the same for everyone.

Established trauma-focused psychotherapies for PTSD include Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Prolonged Exposure (PE), and EMDR.

Other approaches—including mind-body and complementary approaches—may also be helpful for some people, but the strength of evidence varies by approach and condition.

See Therapy & Treatment Approaches below for more information, including EFT/Tapping.

5. LGBTQIA+ Mental Health & Support

The Trevor Project

Best For: LGBTQ+ young people experiencing crisis, suicidal thoughts, emotional distress, bullying, family difficulties, identity concerns, or simply needing someone to talk with.

Purpose: Provides free, confidential crisis support specifically for LGBTQ+ young people.

Call: 1-866-488-7386

Text: START to 678678

Website: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help/

LGBT National Help Center

Best For: LGBTQIA+ people looking for confidential peer support related to identity, coming out, relationships, family, isolation, bullying, and other concerns.

Purpose: Provides LGBTQIA+ peer support and resource information.

LGBT National Hotline: 1-888-843-4564

Coming Out Support Hotline: 1-888-688-5428

Website: https://lgbthotline.org/

PFLAG National

Best For: LGBTQ+ people, parents, families, friends, and allies.

Purpose: Provides education, peer support, local chapters, and virtual support opportunities.

Website: https://pflag.org/

Find Support: https://pflag.org/meetings/

Family Acceptance Project — San Francisco State University

Best For: Parents, caregivers, families, LGBTQ+ children and youth, and professionals.

Purpose: Provides research-based resources and an evidence-informed family support model designed to help diverse families support LGBTQ+ children and youth, reduce health and mental-health risks, and strengthen family connection.

Website: https://familyproject.sfsu.edu/

LGBTQ+ Healthcare Directory

Best For: Finding LGBTQ+-inclusive therapists, behavioral-health professionals, and healthcare providers.

Purpose: Helps LGBTQ+ people locate healthcare professionals knowledgeable about LGBTQ+ health needs.

Website: https://lgbtqhealthcaredirectory.org/

6. Grief & Loss

The Compassionate Friends

Best For: Parents, grandparents, and siblings grieving the death of a child, grandchild, brother, or sister.

Purpose: Provides peer support through local chapters, online communities, and grief resources.

Phone: 1-877-969-0010

Website: https://www.compassionatefriends.org/

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP)

Best For: People grieving a death by suicide, as well as people seeking suicide-prevention information.

Purpose: Provides suicide-loss resources, support-group information, education, and programs connecting survivors of suicide loss with others who understand.

Website: https://afsp.org/

Dougy Center — National Grief Center for Children & Families

Best For: Children, teens, young adults, and families grieving a death.

Purpose: Provides grief education and resources for grieving young people and the adults supporting them.

Website: https://www.dougy.org/

Postpartum Support International

Best For: Miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth, infant loss, pregnancy after loss, postpartum depression or anxiety, and other perinatal mental-health concerns.

Purpose: Provides specialized perinatal mental-health information, peer resources, support groups, and a HelpLine.

HelpLine: 1-800-944-4773

Text in English: HELP to 800-944-4773

Text en Español: 971-203-7773

Hours: 8 a.m.–11 p.m. ET

Important: PSI's HelpLine does not handle emergencies.

Website: https://postpartum.net/

TAPS — Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors

Best For: Anyone grieving the death of a military service member or Veteran.

Purpose: Provides military-bereavement support, peer connection, grief resources, counseling referrals, suicide-loss support, children's programs, and other survivor services.

Helpline: 1-800-959-TAPS (8277)

Website: https://www.taps.org/

7. Relationships & Family Life

A Note About Labels & Diagnoses

You may recognize behaviors described in this Resource Library in someone else—or in yourself.

The goal is not to diagnose people, but to notice patterns of behavior and understand how those patterns affect relationships and well-being.

People can exhibit behaviors associated with narcissism, gaslighting, manipulation, avoidance, codependency, or other unhealthy relationship patterns without having a personality disorder.

Some behaviors may have been learned in families, relationships, workplaces, cultures, or other environments. Others may have developed as coping or survival strategies.

A behavior that helped someone cope in one environment can still become harmful in another.

Understanding a behavior's origins does not require accepting behavior that continues to cause harm.

Al-Anon Family Groups

Best For: Codependency-like patterns, boundaries, caretaking, rescuing, worry, or family stress related to someone else's drinking.

Purpose: Provides peer support for family members and friends affected by alcohol use.

Website: https://al-anon.org/

American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT)

Best For: Relationship counseling, marriage, family conflict, divorce, separation, parenting, and communication difficulties.

Purpose: Provides information about marriage and family therapy and resources for locating qualified marriage and family therapists.

Website: https://www.aamft.org/

RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association

Best For: Infertility, fertility treatment, family-building challenges, and infertility-related emotional distress.

Purpose: Provides education, advocacy, peer support, and support groups.

Website: https://resolve.org/

National Maternal Mental Health Hotline

Best For: Pregnant and postpartum people and loved ones experiencing depression, anxiety, grief, overwhelm, or other maternal mental-health concerns.

Purpose: Provides free, confidential mental-health support.

Call or Text: 1-833-TLC-MAMA (1-833-852-6262)

Website: https://mchb.hrsa.gov/programs-impact/national-maternal-mental-health-hotline

Family Caregiver Alliance

Best For: Caregiver stress, family conflict related to caregiving, and people caring for adults with chronic illness, disability, dementia, stroke, Parkinson's disease, or other conditions.

Purpose: Provides caregiver education, practical guidance, resources, and connections to services.

Website: https://www.caregiver.org/

8. Children, Teens, Schools & Bullying

StopBullying.gov

Best For: Bullying, cyberbullying, bullying prevention, warning signs, parents, children, teens, and schools.

Purpose: Provides federal information about identifying, preventing, and responding to bullying and cyberbullying.

Website: https://www.stopbullying.gov/

Bullying Is Not Every Conflict

Not every disagreement, friendship problem, argument, rude comment, or unkind interaction meets the definition of bullying.

Bullying involves unwanted aggressive behavior, a real or perceived power imbalance, and repeated behavior or the potential for repetition.

Focus on Behavior—Not a Permanent Label

A young person engaging in bullying behavior needs accountability, appropriate intervention, and clear boundaries.

But behavior does not have to become identity.

Rather than simply labeling a child "a bully," adults can:

Protect the young person being harmed.

Identify and interrupt harmful behavior.

Establish appropriate accountability and consequences.

Help the young person engaging in harmful behavior learn healthier emotional, social, and relationship skills.

Understanding why behavior developed does not excuse the harm.

People deserve protection from harmful behavior, and people engaging in harmful behavior may be capable of learning healthier ways of responding.

CASEL — Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning

Best For: Parents, educators, school leaders, and communities interested in social-emotional learning, belonging, relationship skills, emotional regulation, responsible decision-making, and schoolwide SEL.

Purpose: CASEL provides a research-based framework addressing self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.

Website: https://casel.org/

CASEL Framework: https://casel.org/fundamentals-of-sel/what-is-the-casel-framework/

Schoolwide SEL Guide: https://schoolguide.casel.org/

SEL can strengthen protective skills and healthier school environments, but it does not replace appropriate adult intervention, school safety procedures, or mental-health treatment when needed.

Child Mind Institute

Best For: Children's anxiety, depression, ADHD, autism, trauma, behavior, learning difficulties, school anxiety, and parenting concerns.

Purpose: Provides extensive family-friendly education about children's mental health, learning, behavior, and treatment.

Website: https://childmind.org/

The Jed Foundation (JED)

Best For: Teens, young adults, and college students seeking mental-health information and suicide-prevention resources.

Purpose: Focuses on protecting emotional health and preventing suicide among teens and young adults.

Website: https://jedfoundation.org/

9. Specialized Communities

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs — Mental Health

Best For: Veterans experiencing PTSD, depression, anxiety, grief, substance use, military sexual trauma, anger, sleep difficulties, or readjustment concerns.

Purpose: Provides Veteran-specific mental-health treatment, education, telehealth, peer support, and specialized services.

Website: https://www.mentalhealth.va.gov/

Indian Health Service — Behavioral Health

Best For: American Indian and Alaska Native people, families, and Tribal communities.

Purpose: Supports behavioral-health, substance-use, suicide-prevention, and related services through IHS, Tribal, and Urban Indian health programs.

Website: https://www.ihs.gov/DBH/

Rural Health Information Hub — Mental Health

Best For: People in rural communities and professionals working to improve rural mental-health access.

Purpose: Provides information about rural mental-health services, provider shortages, telehealth, suicide prevention, and behavioral-health resources.

Website: https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/topics/mental-health

CDC/NIOSH — Impact Wellbeing

Best For: Healthcare workers and healthcare organizations dealing with burnout, workplace stress, moral injury, violence, and working conditions.

Purpose: Provides resources for improving healthcare-worker mental health and addressing organizational conditions contributing to burnout.

Website: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/healthcare/impactwellbeing/

Eldercare Locator

Best For: Older adults, families, and caregivers looking for aging services and community support.

Purpose: Connects older adults and families with local aging and community resources.

Phone: 1-800-677-1116

Website: https://eldercare.acl.gov/

Disability Information and Access Locator (DIAL)

Best For: People with disabilities looking for independent-living resources, community services, peer support, and disability organizations.

Purpose: Helps people locate disability and independent-living resources in their communities.

Website: https://dial.acl.gov/

10. Find Professional Help

SAMHSA — FindTreatment.gov

Best For: Finding mental-health and substance-use treatment throughout the United States and territories.

Purpose: Federal treatment locator helping people identify treatment programs and services.

Website: https://findtreatment.gov/

American Psychological Association — Psychologist Locator

Best For: Finding a psychologist.

Website: https://locator.apa.org/

American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy

Best For: Finding marriage and family therapists for individuals, couples, and families.

Website: https://www.aamft.org/

American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Best For: Parents looking for a child or adolescent psychiatrist.

Website: https://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Families_and_Youth/Resources/CAP_Finder.aspx

EMDR International Association

Best For: Finding a mental-health professional providing EMDR therapy.

Website: https://www.emdria.org/find-an-emdr-therapist/

International OCD Foundation

Best For: Finding OCD specialists, treatment programs, medication prescribers, and support groups.

Website: https://iocdf.org/find-help/

LGBTQ+ Healthcare Directory

Best For: Finding LGBTQIA+-affirming therapists and healthcare professionals.

Website: https://lgbtqhealthcaredirectory.org/

National Center for PTSD

Best For: Finding information about PTSD treatment and qualified trauma care.

Website: https://www.ptsd.va.gov/gethelp/find_therapist.asp

Choosing a Mental Health Professional

A directory is a starting point, not a guarantee that every provider will be the right fit.

Consider asking:

Are you licensed to practice in my state?

What experience do you have with the concern I am seeking help for?

What treatment approaches do you use?

What training have you received in those approaches?

How will we determine whether treatment is helping?

Do you provide telehealth?

Do you accept my insurance?

Are you accepting new clients?

What is the current wait for an appointment?

11. Therapy & Treatment Approaches

Different approaches have different levels of research support for different conditions.

An approach may be well supported for one condition without being an established treatment for another.

A useful question is not simply: "Does this therapy work?" but: "What does the evidence show about this approach for the particular problem I want help with?"

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Used For: Depression, anxiety, and many other mental-health concerns.

Purpose: Helps people identify relationships among thoughts, emotions, and behavior and develop healthier patterns of responding.

Website: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/psychotherapies

Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)

Used For: PTSD and trauma.

Purpose: Trauma-focused psychotherapy helping people examine and change upsetting beliefs that developed following trauma.

Website: https://www.ptsd.va.gov/understand_tx/cognitive_processing.asp

Prolonged Exposure (PE)

Used For: PTSD and trauma.

Purpose: Helps people gradually approach trauma-related memories, emotions, and safe situations they have been avoiding.

Website: https://www.ptsd.va.gov/understand_tx/prolonged_exposure.asp

EMDR

Used For: PTSD and trauma.

Purpose: Trauma-focused psychotherapy involving processing traumatic memories while attending to bilateral stimulation.

Website: https://www.ptsd.va.gov/understand_tx/emdr.asp

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Used For: Particularly established for Borderline Personality Disorder, and also used for emotion regulation, self-destructive behaviors, and other concerns.

Purpose: Combines acceptance and change strategies and teaches mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion-regulation, and relationship skills.

Website: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/borderline-personality-disorder

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Used For: A variety of emotional and behavioral concerns.

Purpose: Emphasizes psychological flexibility, acceptance, mindfulness, personal values, and meaningful action.

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT/Tapping)

Used For: EFT has been studied for PTSD, anxiety, stress, and related psychological symptoms.

Purpose: EFT/Tapping combines psychological techniques with tapping on specific acupressure points while focusing on thoughts, emotions, memories, or physical sensations.

EFT is offered in some VA settings. However, use within a VA setting is different from receiving the VA/DoD's strongest clinical-practice-guideline recommendation for PTSD.

For PTSD, CPT, PE, and EMDR currently have the strongest guideline support.

This does not mean EFT is being dismissed or that people cannot find it helpful. It means the strength of evidence should be represented accurately for the particular condition being treated.

Website: https://www.ptsd.va.gov/understand_tx/

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Purpose: Explores internal emotional states or "parts" and the protective or reactive roles they may take on.

IFS is used by mental-health professionals, but the evidence for any approach should be considered in relation to the specific condition being treated.

Somatic & Body-Oriented Therapies

Purpose: A broad category of approaches emphasizing physical sensations, body awareness, movement, and physiological responses.

"Somatic therapy" does not describe one standardized treatment. Training and evidence vary among approaches.

Ask providers what specific approach they use, what training they have received, and what evidence supports it for the condition being treated.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

Purpose: Structured mindfulness practices designed to increase present-moment awareness and alter responses to stress.

Research suggests possible benefits for several areas of well-being, but results and research quality vary by condition.

Website: https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/meditation-and-mindfulness-effectiveness-and-safety

Biofeedback & Neurofeedback

Purpose: Biofeedback uses physiological information to help people learn greater awareness or regulation of certain bodily processes. Neurofeedback uses information about brain electrical activity.

Evidence varies by technique and condition.

Find a Practitioner: https://www.bcia.org/consumers-find-a-practitioner

Art Therapy

Purpose: Integrates art-making and creative processes within a therapeutic relationship.

Website: https://arttherapy.org/

Music Therapy

Purpose: Uses clinical music interventions to address individualized therapeutic goals.

Website: https://www.musictherapy.org/

Equine-Assisted & Animal-Assisted Approaches

These terms can describe different kinds of services.

When a service is presented as mental-health treatment, ask who is responsible for clinical treatment, what professional license they hold, and what training they have received.

PATH International: https://pathintl.org/

Pet Partners: https://petpartners.org/

Trauma-Sensitive Yoga

Purpose: Adapts yoga practices to emphasize safety, choice, body awareness, and sensitivity to trauma experiences.

Trauma-sensitive yoga may be used as a complementary or adjunctive approach rather than automatically replacing established PTSD treatment.

Website: https://www.va.gov/wholehealth/

12. Community Support & Basic Needs

211

Best For: Housing, food, utilities, transportation, healthcare, financial assistance, caregiving, and other local needs.

Purpose: Connects people throughout the United States with local community and social-service resources.

Phone: 211

Website: https://www.211.org/

HUD — Find Shelter

Best For: Homelessness, emergency shelter, housing instability, food pantries, health clinics, and related needs.

Purpose: Helps people locate shelters and homelessness-related resources in their communities.

Website: https://www.hud.gov/findshelter

Feeding America

Best For: Food banks, food pantries, groceries, and meal assistance.

Purpose: Helps individuals and families locate food banks and community food resources.

Website: https://www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-local-foodbank

National Hunger Hotline

Best For: Emergency food assistance and help locating food programs.

English: 1-866-348-6479

Spanish: 1-877-842-6273

Website: https://www.usa.gov/emergency-food-assistance

USAGov — Financial Hardship

Best For: Food assistance, housing, utilities, unemployment, healthcare expenses, and other financial needs.

Purpose: Provides a central government starting point for identifying assistance programs.

Website: https://www.usa.gov/financial-hardship

Disability Information and Access Locator (DIAL)

Best For: People with disabilities seeking independent-living resources, disability services, peer support, and advocacy.

Website: https://dial.acl.gov/

Legal Services Corporation

Best For: People with limited financial resources needing civil legal assistance.

Purpose: Helps people locate nonprofit legal-aid organizations.

Website: https://www.lsc.gov/about-lsc/what-legal-aid/i-need-legal-help

U.S. Department of Labor — Mental Health at Work

Best For: Workplace mental health, accommodations, stress, employee rights, mental-health benefits, recovery, and supportive workplaces.

Purpose: Provides federal information about mental health at work, legal protections, accommodations, workplace stress, and employee resources.

Website: https://www.dol.gov/general/mental-health-at-work

Job Accommodation Network (JAN)

Best For: Employees and employers seeking information about workplace accommodations for disabilities, including mental-health conditions.

Purpose: Provides free guidance about disability employment and workplace accommodations.

Website: https://askjan.org/

Family Caregiver Alliance

Best For: Family caregivers needing education, emotional support, practical resources, or connections to services.

Website: https://www.caregiver.org/

Not Sure Where to Start?

Suicidal thoughts, mental-health crisis, or overwhelming emotional distress: Call or text 988

Sexual assault or sexual abuse: RAINN — 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) — Text HOPE to 64673

Domestic violence, emotional abuse, coercive control, or relationship abuse: National Domestic Violence Hotline — 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) — Text START to 88788

Child abuse or sexual abuse of a child: Childhelp — 1-800-422-4453 — Text GO to 1-800-422-4453

Veteran crisis: Call 988, then Press 1 — Text 838255

LGBTQ+ young person needing specialized crisis support: The Trevor Project — 1-866-488-7386 — Text START to 678678

Concerned about your own drinking: Alcoholics Anonymous — https://www.aa.org/

Someone else's drinking is affecting you: Al-Anon — https://al-anon.org/

Drug or alcohol treatment: SAMHSA — 1-800-662-HELP (4357) — https://findtreatment.gov/

Problem gambling: 1-800-MY-RESET — https://www.ncpgambling.org/help-treatment/

Loss of a child: The Compassionate Friends — https://www.compassionatefriends.org/

Suicide loss: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention — https://afsp.org/

Pregnancy or infant loss: Postpartum Support International — 1-800-944-4773 — https://postpartum.net/

Bullying or cyberbullying: https://www.stopbullying.gov/

Eating-disorder concerns: https://www.allianceforeatingdisorders.com/

Self-harm: https://www.selfinjury.bctr.cornell.edu/ — If suicidal thoughts or an immediate crisis are also present, call or text 988.

Need a therapist or treatment program: https://findtreatment.gov/

Need housing, food, financial help, transportation, or community services: Call 211 — https://www.211.org/

A Final Note About Finding Help

Finding support can take more than one attempt.

A resource that is right for one person may not be right for another. It is reasonable to ask questions, explore options, seek a second opinion, or try another provider or support group when something does not feel like the right fit.

Throughout this library, we also distinguish between people and behaviors.

Recognizing bullying, manipulation, gaslighting, unhealthy relationship patterns, substance use, emotional dysregulation, or other harmful behaviors does not require us to permanently define a person by those behaviors.

People deserve protection from harmful behavior.

People who cause harm should be held appropriately accountable.

And people may also be capable of learning healthier ways of thinking, communicating, relating, and responding.

We can recognize patterns without diagnosing people. We can protect ourselves and others without giving up on the possibility of positive change.

Support Can Take Many Forms

Mental-health support isn't always a therapy appointment.

Sometimes support means finding a safe place to live, having enough food, connecting with people who understand, learning healthier relationship skills, getting help caring for someone you love, finding protection from abuse or discrimination, joining a recovery community, or simply knowing where to turn next.

You don't have to solve every problem at once. Finding the next useful resource is a place to begin.

Resources and contact information reviewed August 2026.