Please note: I offer outpatient services, and do not case-manage mental health emergencies. If you need immediate support, please consider the following options:

1). Project LETS provides support by text for urgent issues that involve involuntary hospitalization, and offers specific resources for crisis care that do not involve the police.

“Project LETS is a national grassroots organization and movement led by and for folks with lived experience of mental illness/madness, Disability, trauma, & neurodivergence. We specialize in building just, responsive, and transformative peer support collectives and community mental health care structures that do not depend on state-sanctioned systems that trap our folks in the medical/prison-industrial complex.” 

2). Blackline is a hotline geared toward the Black, Black LGBTQ+, brown, Native, and Muslim communities.

3). Trans Lifeline is a hotline for trans and questioning individuals. “Trans Lifeline’s Hotline is a peer support phone service run by trans people for our trans and questioning peers. Call us if you need someone trans to talk to, even if you’re not in a crisis or if you’re not sure you’re trans.”

4). Jewish Family Service of Western MA offers, “Behavioral Health programs [that] provide strength based services supporting individual and family resiliency.”

5). Kiva Centers is a nationally recognized indigenous-led, peer-run, and trauma-informed organization that offers training, technical assistance, and networking opportunities. The Kiva Centers’ focus is the development and promotion of healing communities for people experiencing different social class impacts like trauma, mental health, and substance use.

6). The Wildflower Alliance, a peer organization that, "...supports healing and empowerment for our broader communities and people who have been impacted by psychiatric diagnosis, trauma, extreme states, homelessness, problems with substances and other life-interrupting challenges." 

7). Peer Support Space hosts virtual peer support groups twice a day Monday through Saturday.

8). National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), a "... free, nationwide peer-support service providing information, resource referrals and support to people living with a mental health condition, their family members and caregivers, mental health providers and the public. HelpLine staff and volunteers are experienced, well-trained and able to provide guidance."

9). Calling 988 when in crisis is also an option. Please consider reading this article about the pros and cons of calling 988 before doing so – ideally, before you are in crisis. “...risks [of calling 988 include] police involvement, involuntary treatment at emergency rooms or psychiatric hospitals, and the emotional and financial toll of those experiences.” While these risks are not guarantees, it is important to know and consider that they are possibilities.

Thank you to NPR for this article, which provided links to many of the resources listed above.