Helpful resources for the healing process
Immediate crisis resources
988 Lifeline: Suicide hotline
Need an in-person crisis center in MA now? Go here: https://www.mass.gov/cbhc-crisis-care
Massachusetts Behavioral Health Help Line: For those needing to speak to someone immediately but not in a crisis situation. The website has a chat component, and you can text or call 833-773-2445. Available 24/7 including holidays.
Florida Warm Line: 800-945-1355 (4-10PM ET, 24/7) - A free, confidential, non-crisis line operated by peers (people who have experienced mental health struggles) in partnership with the Florida Department of Children and Families
Hope For Healing Florida - Helping Floridians access substance use and mental health resources
Domestic Violence: (In Massachusetts) Casa Myrna - Safelink | National domestic violence hotline 800-799-7233
Supplemental Therapy resources
While recommended books link to Amazon, please support your local bookstore or library when possible. All of these audiobooks are available on Audible and Spotify.
The Attachment Project - Learn about how our earliest emotional bonds affect our relationships to this day, and how we can overcome them for greater intimacy with ourselves and our loved ones.
Family Dynamics
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents - How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
It Didn’t Start With You - How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
Raising Good Humans - A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids
Relationship Issues & Emotion Dysregulation
Attached - The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find--and Keep--Love
Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves--and How to Find Our Way Back
Neurodivergence
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD: Embrace Neurodiversity, Live Boldly, and Break Through Barriers
Self-Care for Autistic People: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Unmask!
The Autistic's Guide to Self-Discovery: Flourishing as a Neurodivergent Adult
Loop earplugs - #1 resource for sound-sensitive parents and individuals
Recommended viewing by licensed professionals:
Patrick Teahan, LICSW - Playlist: My Channel As a Childhood Trauma Course
Dr. Ramani Durvasula - Specialist in Narcissism - Playlist: Core Work in Healing from Narcissistic Abuse
Jerry Wise: Self reclamation after toxic and difficult family dynamics
If you are an estranged parent, I recommend starting here: Estranged Parents, Start here
Professor Sol Smith: https://www.youtube.com/@Professor_Sol
Other mental health professionals I recommend:
Prescribers
Robert Terrell, PMHNP - Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (online, accepts most insurances) - 25+ in Psychiatry with specialization in substance use disorder population
Danielle Cogliano, https://www.northeastwomenspsychiatry.com/about.html - Women’s holistic and psychiatric care, OON only
Childrens Therapists
Danielle Cote, LMHC, NCC - Guiding Light Counseling (Neurodivergent children, accepts several major insurances)
Dr. Rachel Schmitt - Serenity Mental Health New England (Wellesley, MA and online) - Neuropsych evals for 18mo - 22yo
Brighter Beginnings (Pocasset, MA & Virtual) - 0-18 specializing in somatic relational therapy
Clinicians for adults (Falmouth, Mashpee, & Virtual)
Kairos Counselings - multiple clinicians, accepts most insurances (This was the practice I trained in and while I do not know every new clinician, the group is highly trained and compassionate). They accept most insurances except for Couples work.
Groups
Together Estranged - a nonprofit community for Estranged Adult Children