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Mental Health, Counseling Services, Self-help, Support Groups, Psychologies
- Emotional
Processing - Explores how styles and deficits in handling
emotions contribute to mental health, including the role of
faulty emotional processing in panic attacks, fatigue, pain,
intrusive emotions and physical illness.
- Mental Wellness
- News and information on mental health issues, the history of
mental illness understanding and treatment, basic facts about
various mental illnesses, and tips on living with it.
- MSN
Groups : Alexithymia - Support group for partners, parents,
employees, and others who interact with individuals who suffer
from alexithymia, defined as an inability to talk about feelings
due to a lack of emotional awareness.
- Organic
Mental Disorders - Online book by Dr. Shahul Ameen discusses
the diagnosis and management of conditions with organic causes,
including dementia and other cognitive disorders, traumatic
brain injury, and delusional, mood, and anxiety disorders.
- Psych Central -
Symptoms and Treatments of Mental Disorders - Lists culled
from current diagnostic criteria most commonly used in the
United States by mental health professionals. These are divided
into three broad categories: adult, childhood, and personality
disorders.
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Revolution Health : Mental Health - Find mental health
information, covering symptoms, causes, risks, treatments and
types. Discuss mental health issues with others in forums,
blogs, personal stories and recommendations.
- When
a Patient Has No Story To Tell: Alexithymia - Psychiatric
Times article presents case histories of several patients unable
to express their emotions.
Counseling Services
- About
Psychotherapy - Information explaining what psychotherapy
is, how it works, why it works, what should happen there, why
go, when to stop, how to find and choose a therapist.
- Cancer as a
Turning Point - Lawrence LeShan, PhD and staff offer cancer
support retreats and individual marathon therapy sessions, in
NYC, NC and CT.
- Center for Cognitive
Rehabilitation - Provides evaluation and treatment services
for people with a wide range of physical and emotional problems.
Includes information about the evaluation, links and contact
details. Located in Decatur, Georgia.
- Claremont Behavioral
Services - Resource for personal, practical worksite-focused
EAP services to private and public sector employers, their
employees and family members.
- Connections
Counselling - Offering support on a range of personal issues
via various means. Includes information on support options and
fees.
- Could Counselling
Help? - Information on different types of counselling and
psychotherapy, how they work, FAQs, common issues including
anxiety and depression, and online tests.
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Counseling Approaches - Written by Dr. Daniel Baney, an
ordained United Methodist minister and licensed psychologist,
this article examines what to look for in a choosing a
counselor.
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CounsellingResource.com - Provides educational materials on
mental health and psychotherapy, including diagnostic criteria,
descriptions of different therapeutic approaches, an
bibliography, discussion and support groups, and book reviews.
- Cybershrink.org -
General resource for counseling and psychotherapy. Includes FAQs
staffed by professionals and information on how to find a
qualified mental health counselor.
- Damien O'Farrell
Foundation - Dedicated to personal growth, curing
addictions, nutrition, health, stress management, and self-love.
Private sessions, workshops, courses, and seminars. Located in
Rome, Italy. Travels internationally.
- The Doctors Gurr -
Husband and wife team of psychologists in New York State.
Includes newsletter articles and links for the general public
and mental health professionals.
- Dr. Kathy Marshack,
Ph.D. - Family business counselling, family business online
therapy, psychotherapy and family business consultation. Author
of "Entrepreneurial Couples: Making it Work at Work and at
Home".
- Dr. Marian Stansbury,
Ph.D. - Offers counseling and coaching for individuals and
couples. Online quizzes, tests, and articles. Office in
Connecticut.
- Dr. Ofer Zur, Ph.D. -
Therapy without the constraints and intrusion of managed-care.
Online catalog, free downloads, seminars. California, Sonoma.
- DRB Alternatives
- Articles on general counseling, substance abuse quiz, and
mediation. Participate in on-line infidelity research
questionnaire. Licensed clinical social worker provides general
counseling, in-person or telephone consultations. Naperville,
IL.
- Dr.Deborah Sunbeck and
Infinity Walk - Training, books and videos: an accelerated
sensory motor cognitive language development program for ages
6-adult, special education, occupational therapy, superlearning,
all learning styles, dyslexia, multiple intelligence, whole
brain learning, improved self-esteem, performance skills.
- The Excel Center -
Counselling and hypnotherapy clinic in Alberta Canada. Offers a
mental health therapist referral service, hypnosis audio
programs, and on-line Inspiration Journal and Forum.
- FEI Behavioral Health -
Employee assistance programs. Work, life, and crisis management.
Services are provided in-person, over the phone and through a
customized website.
Psychologists
Online Counseling
- American and International
Association of Online Psychotherapists - AAOP, offers
visitors direct access to educational and professional
resources. Educates clinicians and the public about existing
health and mental health resources as well as to promote ethical
standards in online counseling.
- American Counseling
Institute - Provides e-mail access to clinical psychologists
offering online and telephone counseling for depression,
anxiety, and relationship problems.
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E-mail and Chat Therapy Research Study - A university
sanctioned study needs internet therapy participants with five
free minutes a week to provide their experiences of
exchanges/sessions and of the therapist-client relationship.
Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
- Emotional Relief
- Free public service resource of information, tools,
techniques, and practitioners. Free sessions of the latest
energy therapy techniques for rapid relief of trauma and stress.
- Life Therapy -
Online counseling with Gretchen Dittmar by e-mail and live chat.
Sessions for depression, anxiety, marriage and relationships.
Find details about e-therapy, Ms Dittmar and the services
offered.
- Tranquil
Counseling - Online counseling via secured encrypted chat
and email. Find a FAQs, fees and service information, code of
ethics, and contact details.
Self-help
- ABCs of Personal Growth
- Psychological tests and quizzes together with book excerpts
and a variety of articles.
- As a Man Thinketh So
Is He - Ways to improve thoughts. Information on creating
reality with thought process and belief systems. Links to
articles, books, and self improvement resources.
- Ask KRS Edstrom - Free
advice column for help with stress reduction, motivation,
relaxation, wellness and spirituality. Offers a variety of
self-help tools, news and reviews, and details of seminars and
retreats.
- The Calm Centre -
Offers calming advice and tests as well as selling books and
music on calm.
- Connects - Mental
health and learning disabilities portal. A worldwide,
interactive, personalised forum for the sharing of information
by people whose lives are touched by mental health problems
and/or learning disabilities. (Requires free registration.)
- Coping.org - Free
onsite manuals for coping with a variety of life's stressors
including: variety of adult mental health issues and parenting
especially dealing with children with disabilities.
- Emotion Toolkit -
Notes and quotes from the journal of a psychology student about
self-help topics.
Courses
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Affirmations For Positive Thinking - Offers personal
affirmations tutorials, together with a free daily affirmation.
Includes pricing and order details.
- AspireNow - On-line
seminars and programs for individuals to discover your purpose
and live more abundantly. Interactive help for success with
goals, relationships, and work.
- Careapy - Distance
learning courses developed by Barbara and Glenn Smyly through
their work in the Alivening Project. Personal development,
spiritual psychology and character education programs.
- Counselors
Association Inc - Offering LifeChange program which combines
hypnosis with a workbook. Tutorials, resources and associated
articles.
Support Groups
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Adult Children of Mentally Ill Parents - Community forum and
links for adult children of mentally ill parents.
- American Mental Health
Association - Schizophrenia, depression, bipolar and
schizoaffective disorder, NBD, alcoholism, and drug addiction
are discussed in terms of cause, treatment, prevention,
recovery, and online self-help therapy.
- Angel Survive - A
support site (chat and forum) for victims and survivors of
abuse. Includes forums for triggers, articles, partners,
survivors' stories, self-harm, eating disorders, and happy
endings.
- Breath of
Fresh Air - Contains articles, stories, experiences, art,
and poetry submitted by patients, caregivers, families, and
medical professionals. Includes mental health news, advocacy,
and recovery.
Anger
- AJ Novick Group
- Offers anger and stress management classes for adults,
adolescents, businesses and court referrals. They also offer
workshop programs, home study courses and professional training.
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American Psychological Association HelpCenter - Warning
Signs on-line brochure providing information on detecting a
tendency of violence and on controlling the anger driving it.
- Anger Management Services
Online - Learn anger management techniques by Leonard Ingram
that will help you improve your personal and family
relationships, relationships with co-workers, or deal with the
loss of a loved one.
- Anger
Management Techniques - Offers tips and techniques for anger
control and management. Contains articles, tips and contact
details.
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Anger Profile - A free Anger Management Test scored on-line.
Evaluates the ability to deal with anger in various types of
situations.
Child Abuse
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ABA: Child Law Practice - Informational Journal in Adobe
Acrobat (PDF) format. Contains Tips for Representing Teen
Clients and Tips for Caseworkers on Testifying in Court
- Adults and
Children Together Against Violence (ACT) - Sponsored by the
American Psychological Association and others, ACT seeks to
prevent violence by providing young children with positive role
models and environments that teach nonviolent problem-solving.
Information on managing anger, resolving conflicts, and violence
prevention.
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Almanac of Policy Issues: Child Abuse - Find articles,
information and links related to child abuse in America.
- American Professional
Society on the Abuse of Children - Addresses all facets of
the professional response to child maltreatment: prevention,
assessment, intervention, and treatment.
- At
Health.com - This newsletter issue provides links to child
abuse information, treatment and prevention resources.
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Stress
Mental Disorders
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Abnormal Psychology - Lecture notes from the University of
Toronto's Abnormal Psychology class taught by Prof. Rector.
- APA Help Center -
Information on many topics including family and relationships.
Quality articles and a resource for finding psychologists.
Resources for dealing with everyday problems. From the American
Psychological Association.
- At Health -
Covers mental health diseases and conditions. Newsletter,
practitioner directory, treatment center directory, featured
articles, and a bookstore.
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Australian Mental Health - Aiming to help, assist, support
and educate the wider community on mental health illnesses.
General mental health information and links for Australian
resources.
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