Additional Resources

General Mental Health Resources

• Podcast on coping with grief and loss: Terrible, Thanks for Asking 

• Podcast about coping with work stress and work dynamics: How’s work? with Esther Perel 

• General mental health podcast: Unlocking Us with Brene Brown (the first episode in particular is on coping with the pandemic) 

• Motherhood podcast: Motherhood Sessions

• General Mental Health Podcast: Counselor Toolbox

• Online Sand tray (express your feelings or just play)

• A good TED Talk about boundaries

• Free therapy worksheets

• About the transformative justice model

• Understanding self-harm as more than just physical

• Create your own recovery/life mission statement

• Act Mindfully Free Resources 

• Therapy podcast (with a focus Black identity and experience): The homecoming Podcast with Dr. Thema 

• Open Path collective: sliding scale therapy resource

• Therapist Aid: free therapy worksheets

• Headspace: A Mindfulness and Meditation resource- currently free to LA residents for the duration of Covid

• PTSD coping worksheets

• Owl Comic for mental health support and advice

• https://www.mutualaidhub.org

• When your unsure how to begin with asking for help on any day to day task

Self-Love & Body Positivity Resources

• Self-esteem/building trust with ourselves

• Radical self-acceptance (body and intersectionality focus) 

• Self-Compassion 

  Body image/disordered eating resources: 

  • The Body Image podcast

  • Food Psych podcast 

  • Diets don’t work (intersectional) (facebook)

  • Jameela Jamil (twitter/Instagram) 

  • Sofie Hagen (podcast, twitter, instagram, facebook)

  • HAES (facebook group) 

  • Dieticians Unplugged Podcast

  • Virtual meal support groups : @covid19eatingsupport on Instagram 

  • Eating disorder recovery mentor

  • Another eating disorder recovery mentor resource

  • FEDUP group on Facebook (Fighting Eating Disorders in Underrepresented Populations)

• A good ted talk about women, body image, and boundaries

• Happy Fat by Sofie Hagen

• The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

Relationships & Sex Resources

• Relationship, sex, and sexuality resources

• Relationship podcast: Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel 

• Teen-friendly resources on sex, sexuality, and gender 

• Healing from/coping with the aftermath of childhood sexual assault

• Queer Sex Ed podcast

Queer/Trans/Intersectional Resources

• Non-binary centered news/culture

• National queer and trans therapists of color (they offer therapy scholarships for QTPOC)

• Trans Student Educational Resources

• Intersex information and advocacy

• Queer/trans resources (Sam Dylan Finch’s Website)

• Queer trans disabled Los Angeles collective

• Pidgeon: non-binary intersex person, activist, blogger, filmmaker and youtuber

• A comic about the early stages of figuring out your gender

• Writing project by and for QTPOC survivors of child sexual abuse

• Deadname remover

• Donate binders/get free binders

• Legal name and gender change assistance contact MSW Nick Bell at nbell@lagendercenter.com for 1:1 consult (free, but $25 donation encouraged for those who can afford it)

• Queer and Trans Mutual Aid Facebook Group

• Autostraddle (predominately queer women and lesbian centered news, culture, dating, and community)

• Oliver Quincy: An autistic non-binary person’s instagram where they talk about mental health and debunk harmful myths about gender, autistic, and mental health

• Conversion Therapy Survivors

• Trans, non-binary, and intersex AA meeting (Sundays 7:30 pm PST)

• Jessica Kellgren-Fozard- Disabled Deaf lesbian youtuber talks about chronic illness, mental health, queerness, and invisible disabilities.

• Gender Affirming Letter Access Project

• Everyone Is Gay (Advice and Resources for LGBTQ+ Youth)

• Gender Diversity (family resource/support groups for parents of trans and non-binary youth and for trans and non-binary youth)

BIPOC Resources

• Inclusive Therapists Resource List

• Therapy for Black Girls

• Melanin and Mental Health

• Black Mental Health Matters

• BEAM: Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective

• A reparations Facebook group where POC can ask for financial support and where everyone can make offerings of things they can give (items, services, etc)

• African American Therapists Directory

• Mental Health Issues Facing the Black Community (Contact for additional “free or low-cost sources for mental health treatment in the Black community”) * This is not an endorsement of Sunshine Behavioral Health

• 5 Myths that Uphold Mental Health Stigma in Latinx Communities

• 4 Ways People of Color Can Foster Mental Health and Practice Restorative Healing

• Being Biracial: Figuring Out Where Home Is

Neurodiversity Resources

• ADHD Alien Comic

• How ADHD can impact depression/anxiety/your self concept

• Autism and gender diversity overlap

• One woman shares about her experiences as an autistic Black woman

• Black autistic artist shares about their experiences

Anti-Oppression Resources

• The Blackful: Anti-Racist Training and Consultation

• @portia.noir on TikTok

• How to Be Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi

• Fearing The Black Body by Sabrina Strings

• Radical Copy Editor (making your writing more anti-racist, trans affirming, up to date, and inclusive)

• bit.ly/ANTIRACISMRESOURCES

• Learning about Microagressions:

  • Microaggressions and micro-affirmations

  • The Impact of Microaggressions – An Introductory Training

  • Tone Policing

  • Racial Microagressions in everyday life

  • Sexual and Gender Microagressions and access to healthcare

Additional Mental Health Resources

• Chronic Illness Support

• Healing from/coping with the after math of childhood sexual assault 

• Support and community for people who hear voices created by someone who hears voices (from a non-stigmatizing perspective)

• Los Angeles Covid 19 Mutual Aid Resources

• Los Angeles Covid 19 Mutual Aid Facebook Group

• Aids Healthcare Foundation (free HIV testing, affordable housing, and more services)

• International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation

Los Angeles Based Low Fee Therapy Resources

• Los Angeles and Long beach LGBT centers

• Individual and Family Therapy Center in North Hollywood

• Southern California Counseling Center

• The Place Within

• Mitchell family Counseling Clinic

• Into The Woods Therapy Center

• West Valley Counseling Center

• The Relational Center

• Maple Counseling Clinic

• Hollywood Sunset Free Clinic

• Open Paths counseling

• Westminster Center

• Valley Community Counseling Clinic

• USC and UCLA both have clinics you don’t have to be a student to go to

• Playa Vista Counseling

• Telebehavioralhealth (virtual therapy services that take medicare and medicaid as well as other providers)

Resources to Find a Therapist (United States):

• Mentalhealthmatch.com

• Inclusivetherapists.com

• National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network

• Therapy Den

• Talk Space

• Therapy for Black Girls

• Melanin and Mental Health

• Find a Therapist

• Good Therapy

• Psychology Today (be mindful of their issues with publishing racist and transphobic articles and/but they have one of the most extensive lists of therapists- so I didn’t want to leave off the list)

• Neurodivergent Therapists- https://ndtherapists.com

Fun Things to Do During a Pandemic

• Free virtual board games (play alone, with friends, or with strangers)

• Make free digital art: https://www.canva.com/ (posters, flyers, collages)

• Make free digital art: https://www.pixilart.com/draw (MS paint style art)

• Your local library (has free virtual resources you can access)

• Open Source Books and Articles on Muse

• Free Movie Streaming

• Monterey Bay Aquarium Life Camera Feed

Book Recommendations:

• The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

• Unmasking Autism by Devon Price

• Adults Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal From Distance, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson

• Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Amelia and Emily Nagoski

• Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

• Self Therapy by Jay Earley (I know some IFS traditionalists are not a fan but I found this a lot less dense/easier to read than the books by Richard C. Schwartz. However, check out Richard C. Shwartz’s Internal Family Systems Model if you want the original text on IFS)

• Self Compassion by Kristen Neff