Mental Health Links

The following links are listed to provide you with additional online mental health care information. Please also check the links provided for physical health for a more comprehensive understanding of your over-all well-being. The following is not meant to be an exhaustive list, nor is it an endorsement of all the content of all listed sites/books.

I do not treat most of the conditions listed below, but these resources are here as a public service. My services and specialties are enumerated on this website.

Associations & Institutes

• American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
• American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
• American Counseling Association
• American Psychiatric Association
• American Psychological Association
• American Psychological Society
• Center for Mental Health Services
• Mental Health America
• MentalHealth.gov/
• National Institute of Mental Health
• National Mental Health Association
• National Eating Disorders Association
• National Sleep Foundation
• National Women’s Health Resource Center
• The National Child Traumatic Stress Network
• NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness)
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Suicide Awareness and Hotlines

• American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
• Suicide Awareness Voices of Education
• Suicide: Read This First

Depression

• Bipolar Disorder News – Pendulum.org
• Depression and How Therapy Can Help
• Depression Screening
• Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA)

Anxiety Disorders

• Answers to Your Questions About Panic Disorder 
• Don’t Feed the Monkey Mind, by Jennifer Shannon
• The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook, by Edmund Bourne

Happiness, Meaning, and Purpose in Life

• The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, by Jonathon Haidt
• Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl
• The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, by Jonathon Haidt

Couples

• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country’s Foremost Relationship Expert, by John Gottman and Nan Silver
• The Man’s Guide to Women: Scientifically Proven Secrets from the Love Lab About What Women Really Want, by John Gottman
• Books on Amazon by John Gottman
• Gottman Connect for Couples
• Not Just Friends: Rebuilding Trust and Recovering Your Sanity After Infidelity, by Shirley Glass
• How Infidelity Causes Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Post-Infidelity Stress Disorder: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments (not a clinical diagnosis, but a way of describing similarities between PTSD and how betrayed partners often feel)
• Healing From Infidelity: The Divorce-Busting Guide to Rebuilding Your Marriage After an Affair, by Michele Weiner Davis
• Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love, by Sue Johnson

Grief and Loss

• Books by David Kessler
• Books by Alan Wolfelt

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

• Beyond OCD
• International OCD Foundation
• Trichotillomania Learning Center

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

• National Center for PTSD
• Give an Hour— for veterans and their families
• National Center for PTSD Real Warriors (U.S. Department of Defense)— for veterans and their families
• The Gift From Within
• Sidran Institute
• Post-Infidelity Stress Disorder: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments (not a clinical diagnosis, but a way of describing similarities between PTSD and how betrayed partners often feel)

Addiction and Recovery

• Alcoholics Anonymous
• Center for On-Line Addiction
• Web of Addictions

Eating Disorders

• American Dietetic Association

Personality Disorders

• Personality Disorders

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

• ADDA – Attention Deficit Disorder Association
• Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, NIMH

Child Abuse and Domestic Violence

• Childhelp USA®
• Questions and Answers about Memories of Childhood Abuse
• The National Domestic Violence Hotline Website

Diagnosis

• DSM-V: Diagnoses and Criteria

Medication

• DrugWatch.com provides up-to-date information about prescription and over-the-counter medications, including details about associated side effects.