RESOURCES
Extras just for you.
Helplines
In case you need immediate help: If ever you are feeling hopeless, suicidal, or simply in need of speaking with someone, there are numerous free and anonymous hotlines with trained operators available.
Suicide Prevention / Depression Support
Rape, Abuse & Domestic Violence
Gay / Lesbian Issues
Pregnancy / Sexual Health
- Planned Parenthood: 1-800-230-PLAN (7526)
- Nat'l. STD Hotline: 1-800-227-8922
- National AIDS Hotline: 1-800-342-AIDS (2437)
- The Teen AIDS Hotline: 1-800-440-TEEN (8336) Medical Emergencies
- Nat'l. Poison Help: 1-800-222-1222
Medical Emergencies
Additional Resources / Organizations
*If you think you have a medical emergency please call your doctor or 911 immediately.
Mental Health Resources
Below is a list of helpful mental health care resources and information.
Depression, Suicide & Chronic Fatigue
General
- CoDA // Codependency Support
- National Domestic Violence Hotline
- No Silence No Violence // DV support
- Inspire Psychiatric // Psychiatry Group in Carlsbad
- Merfleur Wellness // Naturopath
- Inner Optimal // Nuerofeedback in Encinitas
- Cereset // Brain Rebalancing
- To Be Magnetic // Neural Manifestation
- Revolution from Home // Virtual Motherhood Support
- Onsite // Personal Growth Workshops & Intensives
- Hoffman Institute // Personal Growth Intensive
- NAMI//Advocacy for Mental Health
Therapist Associations
- American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
- American Counseling Association
- American Psychiatric Association
- American Psychological Association
- National Institute of Mental Health – Extensive information on a variety of mental health topics
- National Mental Health Association
- National Mental Health Association
Favorite Books
Whether or not you’re currently in therapy, these books, websites, and articles might be helpful for you. Note: While we offer these as recommendations, we cannot endorse everything they contain. If you have any concerns, please contact us.
ADHD
- ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life – Judith Kolberg & Kathleen Nadeu
- More Attention, Less Deficit – Ari Tuckman
- You Need Help: Your AD(H)D is F*cking Up your Focus – Heather Hogan
ADULTING
- Adulting – Kelly Williams Brown
- The Art of Money – Bari Tessler
ANXIETY
- The Anxious Thoughts Workbook – David A. Clark
- Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong – Kelly Wilson & Troy DeFrene
- Turtles all the Way Down – John Green
AUTISM
- Odd Girl Out -Laura James
BODY IMAGE & FOOD
- Intuitive Eating – Elyse Resch & Evelyn Tribole
- The Intuitive Eating Workbook – Elyse Resch & Evelyn Tribole
- Nope, I’m Not Trying to Lose Weight – Jes Baker
BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER
- Borderline Personality Disorder, Demystified – Robert O. Friedel
- The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook – Daniel J. Fox
- What It’s like to Date when You Have Borderline Personality Disorder – Kyli Rodriguez-Cayro
- Stop Walking on Eggshells – Paul Mason & Randi Kreger
BOUNDARIES & HEALTHY COMMUNICATION
- The Art of Comforting – Val Walker
- There is no Good Card for This – Kelsey Crowe & Emily McDowell
CO-DEPENDENCY
- Co-Dependent No More - Melody Beattie
- Facing Co-Dependency - Pia Melody
DEPRESSION
- I don’t want to Talk About IT-Terrence Real
EMOTIONAL HEALTH
- The Wild Edge of Sorrow - Francis Weller
- How to Do the Work - Nicole LePera
- Letting Go - David Hawkins
- Emotional Agility - Susan David
- The Highly Sensitive Person - Elaine Aron
- Energetic Boundaries - Cindi Dale
- Empath's Survival Guide - Judith Orloff
- Bored & Brilliant – Manoush Zomorodi
- Get out of Your Mind and Into Your Life -Steven Hayes
- Superbetter – Jane McGonigal
LGBTQIA+
- Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution – Shiri Eisner
NARCISSISTIC ABUSE
- The Wizard of Oz & Other Narcissists I knew - Eleanor Payson
- Will I Ever Be Good Enough - Karyl McBride
MARRIAGE
- The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work – John Gottman and Nan Silver
PARENTING
- The Whole Brain Child - Daniel Seigel
- The Awakened Family - Shafali Tsabary
- How We Love Our Kids- Milan & Kay Yerkovich
- How to Talk so Kids will Listen & Listen so Kids Will Talk – Adele Farber & Elaine Mazlish
- Mindfulness for Parents-Amber Hatch
- The Child Whisperer - Carol Tuttle
- Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child – John Gottman & Joan Declaire
- The Spirited Child - Mary Kurcinka
- Trauma Proofing Your Kids - Peter Levine and Maggie Kline
- Love & Logic - Jim Fay & Charles Fay
POLYAMORY
- More than Two - Franklin Veaux and Eve Rickert
RELATIONSHIPS
- Getting the love you want - Harville Hendrix
- How We Love - Milan & Kay Yerkovich
- Hold Me Tight - Sue Johnson
- Conscious Uncoupling - Katherine Thomas
- Attached - Amir Levine
SEX
- Come As You Are – Emily Nagoski
- Mating in Captivity - Esther Perel
- What you Really Really Want – Jaclyn Friedman
SOUL
- The Gifts of Imperfection - Brene Brown
- The Road Back to You - Ian Cron & Suzanne Stabile
- Untethered Soul - Michael Singer
- When Things Fall Apart - Pema Chodron
- Daring Greatly - Brene Brown
- Women Who Run with the Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estes
TRAUMA
- When the body Say’s No - Gabor Mate
- Waking the Tiger - Peter Levine
- The Body Keeps The Score - Besser Van Der Kolk
- It Didn't Start with you - Mark Wylon
- In an Unspoken Voice - Peter Levine
- The Courage to Heal – Ellen Bass
- Why Does he Do That? – Lundy Bancroft
