Mental Health Resources
Trusted mental health information, organizations, and support resources for anxiety, trauma, EMDR, and emotional well-being
Finding Reliable Mental Health Information and Support
Understanding your options can make it easier to identify the information and support that may be helpful to you. I have gathered resources from reputable organizations covering anxiety, depression, EMDR, CBT, and other mental health concerns, along with crisis services and additional sources of support. Whether you are looking for information for yourself or someone you care about, these resources can be a helpful place to start.
Crisis & Immediate Support
If you or someone you know is experiencing emotional distress, a mental health crisis, suicidal thoughts, or a substance use concern, immediate support is available.
The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is available nationwide, including Colorado and Pennsylvania, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Call or text 988 to connect with a trained crisis counselor for free, confidential support, or visit the 988 Lifeline website to chat online.
If you are in immediate or life-threatening danger, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.
Anxiety & Depression
Anxiety and depression can affect how you think, feel, sleep, work, and connect with the people around you. Find helpful information on what you may be experiencing, what can help, and where to turn for support.
NAMI – (National Alliance on Mental Illness)
NAMI provides mental health education, support, resources, and information for people living with mental health conditions and their families.
SAMHSA – (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)
SAMHSA provides information, resources, and support for mental health and substance use concerns, including tools for finding treatment and other services.
The Mental Health Coalition
A collection of trusted mental health resources from leading organizations, offering information on mental health conditions, practical coping strategies, guidance for supporting loved ones, and resources for finding professional help.
Help Guide
An independent nonprofit offering accessible, research-based mental health information and practical guidance. Its resources cover mental health conditions, emotional well-being, relationships, and healthy lifestyle changes to help individuals better understand their challenges and improve their quality of life.
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project provides crisis support, information, and mental health resources for LGBTQ+ young people.
CBT: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Sometimes the way we think about a situation can make it harder to cope with, especially when the same thoughts and reactions keep showing up. These CBT resources can help you notice those patterns, understand how they’re affecting you, and find more helpful ways to respond.
ABCT (Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies)
If you’re considering CBT, it can help to know what therapy will actually look like before you walk into that first session. The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies explains what you and your therapist may work on together, why CBT often includes practicing new skills between sessions, and how those skills can help you handle difficult thoughts, feelings, and situations differently.
Mayo Clinic
CBT is about noticing the thoughts that can pull you into a spiral and learning how to respond to them differently. Mayo Clinic explains how that process works, what you can expect in therapy, and how CBT can give you practical tools for dealing with difficult emotions, stressful situations, and everyday challenges.
Self-Guided CBT Techniques to Improve Your Mental Health
When your thoughts start running away with you, it can be hard to know how to interrupt the cycle. Kaiser Permanente shares four CBT techniques you can try on your own, including calming your body’s stress response, looking at a situation from a different perspective, and challenging the negative thoughts that can make a difficult moment feel even bigger.
EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
EMDR therapy can help people work through trauma, anxiety, and other difficult experiences that continue to affect daily life. Explore how EMDR works, what happens during a session, and the concerns it may be used to treat.
Somatic Therapy
Stress and difficult experiences do not always live just in our thoughts. These resources look at how they can show up in the body, too, and how somatic therapy works with that connection.
Somatic Exercises
Sometimes slowing down and paying attention to what your body is telling you can make a real difference in how you feel. Gold’s Gym walks you through simple somatic exercises that use gentle movement and breathing to help ease tension, feel more grounded, and reconnect with your body.
Harvard Health
If you’ve noticed that stress or difficult emotions seem to settle into your body, there may be a reason for that. Harvard Health explains how somatic therapy works with those physical responses and how things like breathing, movement, and body awareness can become part of the healing process.
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Johns Hopkins offers short, guided somatic practices you can actually try, rather than just read about. The exercises use breathing, stretching, grounding, body awareness, and gentle movement to help release tension, reconnect with your body, or find a little more calm and energy when you need it.
Women's Issues
Women often juggle work, relationships, family responsibilities, and the pressure to handle it all. Explore information on burnout, self-doubt, caregiving stress, workplace pressures, and other challenges that can affect women’s emotional well-being.
HelpGuide
That nagging feeling that you somehow fooled everyone into thinking you know what you’re doing can be hard to shake, even when you’ve worked hard to get where you are. HelpGuide looks at why imposter syndrome can make it so difficult to own your accomplishments and offers ways to quiet the self-doubt, stop comparing yourself to everyone else, and give yourself a little more credit.
The Mental Health Coalition: Women’s Wellbeing at Work Guide
Work can affect your mental health in ways that aren’t always obvious. This guide looks at the personal, social, and workplace pressures that can weigh especially heavily on women, including self-doubt, role overload, gender expectations, feeling depleted, and trying to balance work with everything else in your life.
American Psychological Association: How Working Women Can Manage Work-Life Balance
The idea of perfectly balancing work, home, family, and everything else is often unrealistic. This APA article takes some of the pressure off by encouraging women to let go of perfection, decide what needs their attention right now, ask others to share the load, and recognize that different parts of life will need more from them at different times.
OASH (Office on Women’s Health)
Women’s mental health can be affected by so much more than what is happening in the moment. WomensHealth.gov looks at how anxiety, depression, hormonal changes, caregiving, stress, and even social media can affect women at different stages of life, along with signs that it may be time to ask for help and ways to take better care of yourself.
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