Mental Health: Some Ideas
Basic Self-Care
Next Session Worksheet/Starting therapy:
- Behaviors that directly impact your chemical nature
- Behaviors aligned with your Meaning-Intention
Specialized Therapies
- Individual AND Couples/Family
- Group Therapy
- Public support groups/Online forums
- Professional Group Therapy
- Retreats
- Trauma
- EMDR-Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing
- DBT- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
- TIR- Trauma Incident Reduction
- ART- Accelerated Resolution Therapy
- Rapid Resolution Therapy (cousin of ART)
- CID- Critical Incident Debriefing
- MBT- Mentalization Based Therapy (for BPD)
- IFS- Internal Family Systems Therapy
- Trauma Informed Yoga
- Creative Therapies
- Art Therapy
- Sandtray Therapy
- Drama Therapy
- Animal Assisted & Equestrian Therapy
- Exposure Therapy (anxieties)
- Medical Therapy
- Neurofeedback/EEG Biofeedback/Quantitative electroencephalograph (qEEG)
- TMS- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
- ECT- Electroconvulsive Therapy
- Ketamine infusions
- Evaluation for medication
- PCP, ARNP, Psychiatrist
- Genetic Metabolism Testing (for medications)
- Inpatient/Partial Hospitalization/Intensive Outpatient
- Addiction Therapy
- AA(Alcoholics) / NA(Narcotics) /Ala-Non (for loved ones of addicts) / ACOA (Adult Children of Alcoholics)
- CODA (Codependents Anonymous) / Sex + Love Addicts
- Overeaters Anonymous + Eating disorder groups
- Gambling
- Low cost: Interns & Charities
Virtual Therapies + Apps
- crisistextline.org
- talkspace.com
- betterhelp.com
- 7cups.com
- Facebook “Mental Health Movement” Online Support Group
- App: How We Feel
- App: Positive Focus
- App: Sanvello
- App: Finch (young adults)
- Cope Notes (text messages, not an app, $13/month, inspirational messages & digital journal- they don’t respond back)