Mental Health & Wellness Resources
Artwork detail: Asia Tail, 2019 Fellowship recipient
With new restrictions set in place, attention to mental health and wellness is even more important. Here is growing-list of resources for Washington State artists. If you want to include other resources, please feel free to email Luther at luther@artisttrust.org.
Community-Based Resources
NAMI Seattle BIPOC Support Group
NAMI Seattle
This group is open to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color seeking support around mental health issues. This group meets every Tuesday, 5-6pm on zoom.
BIPOC Linkup
Seattle Works
The BIPOC Link-Up focuses on topics that promote positive well-being for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color to connect, build community, share resources, discuss racial equity, promote healing, & make an impact. This group meets bi-weekly on zoom.
QTPoC Facebook Group
This facebook group is for for queer and trans people of color.
Peer Support Group
Ingersoll Gender Center
Our trans led peer support group has been meeting every week no matter the weather or holidays for over 40 years. Our peer support groups provide a great place for trans folks, gender nonconforming and questioning folks, friends, family and community allies to come together for information and mutual support. The group meets Wednesday, 7-9pm PST.
TrikeoneNW
Trikone Northwest has been serving the South Asian community in Seattle for over 20 years. We are a vibrant, diverse group of individuals creating a social, supportive, educational, and political space for LGBTQ and differently-oriented South Asians and their family, friends, allies and community. We are a community based organization which is 100% volunteer run. To know more about some highlights of our history please scroll through the timeline.
Seattle Queer Health Facebook Group
This is a group for Seattle community members to post and share about healthcare providers, experiences, important information, and community events. Our physical, mental, and spiritual health affects our ability to function and to be whole humans. This group exists to provide is an explicitly anti-racist, feminist, LGBTQ space to grow together.
Support Group
New BoyZ Club
This group is only open to people who are AFAB and who identify as FTM Transgender, Transmasculine, Non-binary, Gender-queer as well as questioning their gender identity.
Support Groups
Seattle Counseling Service
SCS support groups can help by providing a place to discuss your feelings, share information, and talk with peers and other members of our LGBTQ community. Including “Connexions,” a support group from queer and trans people of color.
LGBTQ-Two Spirit Workgroup
Indian Health Services
The LGBTQ-Two Spirit Workgroup offers advice to IHS leadership in order to ensure that LGBTQ-Two Spirit AI/ANs, their families, and the communities where they live receive equal access to health services by providing enhanced resources for LGBTQ-Two Spirit health issues.
Northwest 2-Spirit Society Facebook Group
This group is open to those who identify as Two-Spirit and our valued Allies. Two-Spirit people being those who are Aboriginal/First Nation/Native American/American Indian/Alaskan Native, Metis, Inuit AND Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender.
Counseling Washington
Counseling Washington website helps Washington State residents find & contact local WA Licensed mental health counselors (LMHCs), marriage and family therapists (LMFTs), clinical social workers (LICSWs), and/or psychologists, and provides educational content pages of interest to counselors, students, and the general public.
National Alliance of Mental Health
NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.
Mindful Therapy Group
We are a collaborative group of diverse and talented Mental Health Professionals coming together with a wide variety of specialties to serve the greater Seattle area. We see children, adolescents and adults with a multitude of mental health issues including depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, relationship problems, behavioral and learning issues including ADHD.
Cor Counseling and Wellness
We are a team of specialists dedicated to providing counseling services that combine compassionate care with evidence-based treatment. During difficult times we are here to talk about the challenges you are facing and guide the healing process. All therapists are now providing online telehealth counseling sessions for your safety and convenience.
Tips, Tools, and Stories
Artist Wellness Video Series
Artist Relief
Artist Relief is producing a weekly video series on the subject of wellness. These sessions are led by artists representing a broad spectrum of creative practices and voices, and include discussions of movement, meditation, herbalism, sound therapy and music, poetry/writing prompts, and more. Each video is created by a different artist for the broader artistic community.
Arts in Health
Arts Walla
Art Walla has created an ongoing video series of artists sharing ways they can use art to better their mental health and wellness.
BIPOC Mental Health Month Toolkit
Mental Health America
In this toolkit are lists of resources specifically for Black, Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ communities; handouts on racism and mental health and racial trauma; an infographic built from Mental Health America screening data on BIPOC and LGBTQ+ mental health; and more – including a Call to Action for people to share how discrimination and/or racism have affected their mental health, using the hashtag #ImpactofTrauma.
Care for Your Coronavirus Anxiety
Virus Anxiety
Resources for anxiety and your mental health in a global climate of uncertainty.
Guidance for a Better Mental Health
Rehab 4 Addiction
The coronavirus might affect not only your physical wellbeing but also your mental health. As we might be instructed to stay home due to the pandemic, the mental health symptoms might worsen. Here are some tips, tools, and other resources to better your mental health during this time.
11 Self-Care Tips According to Expert Queer Healers
Them
Through interviews with over a dozen expert queer healers — including traditional psychologists, sex therapists, personal trainers, reiki masters and hypnotists — Them compiled a guide for self-care during these scary times.
9 Strategies for Quarantining in a Non-LGBTQ+ Affirming Environment
Them
With help from queer therapists and experts from The Trevor Project, here’s how to endure isolation with those who might not accept your identity.
Rest for Resistance
A catalog of art and writing by queer and trans people of color.
Queer Community Conversations
Gay City
Conversations amongst queer and trans folks discussing concerns affecting their communities in Washington State during COVID-19. Conversations take place first and third Tuesdays, 12:30-1:30pm PST.
Mindfulness Meditation
Frye Art Museum
In this uncertain time, the practice of mindfulness meditation can offer a sense of calm amidst our to-do lists and more fully appreciate the gift of each day. The Frye Art Museum is offering virtual Mindfulness Meditation sessions throughout the summer.
Online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
Palouse Mindfulness
This online MBSR training course is 100% free, created by a fully certified MBSR instructor, and is based on the program founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Brown Girl Therapy
Brown Girl Therapy is an Instagram account filled with resources for children of immigrants.
Decolonizing Therapy
Decolonizing Therapy is an Instagram account filled with resources for BIPOC communities.
The Asian Mental Health Project
The Asian Mental Health Project will begin as a website offering different types of resources. As the project grows, it will provide live events and community engagement opportunities catered to the needs of its audience.
Dragging My Baggage into Paradise by Jane Orelman
Jane Orleman, author of Telling Secrets: An Artist’s Journey Through Childhood Trauma, tells the story of how, through therapy and art, she came to terms with her childhood experiences of sexual assault and domestic violence.
Click here to read Jane’s story.
Mental Health Issues Facing the Black Community
Several guides, tools, resources, and support for the Black community around mental health and racism.
Meditation
Meditation. For Us, By Us.
Liberate
Liberate is the #1 meditation app for the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color community.
Mindfulness Meditation
Frye Art Museum
In this uncertain time, the practice of mindfulness meditation can offer a sense of calm amidst our to-do lists and more fully appreciate the gift of each day. The Frye Art Museum is offering virtual Mindfulness Meditation sessions throughout the summer.
Online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
Palouse Mindfulness
This online MBSR training course is 100% free, created by a fully certified MBSR instructor, and is based on the program founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Therapy and Support for Queer Artists
National Queer and Trans Therapists Network
National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN) is a healing justice organization committed to transforming mental health for queer and trans people of color (QTPoC).
Indigo Mental Health
Many individuals who are in the LGBTQI community have worked through the coming out process and are comfortable with their sexual/gender identity for the most part. They may have sought therapy in the past for issues such as depression, anxiety, addictions, past trauma, or relationships and found that the therapist did not understand, or at worse pathologized their sexual identity. Indigo Mental Health is a warm and supportive practice that can help you to recover from many issues while affirming your sexual/gender identity.
Seattle Counseling Center
If the thought of therapy makes you uncomfortable or afraid, you are not alone. Despite increasing acceptance and public awareness, there is still a stigma attached to the idea. Therapy is a way of getting an experience outside perspective to help you gain insight about yourself so you can make better choices. At SCS, all counseling is LGBTQ-affirmative and is conducted in an atmosphere free from homophobia, cisexism, prejudice, fear, and ignorance.
My Trans Help
MyTransHealth is a free online directory that connects trans and gender non-conforming people with qualified, culturally competent healthcare providers. Our location-based search tool offers resources for medical and mental health services.
Fennec Oak Counseling
No one is broken. What does it mean to be you? What are your heart’s secret longings? What are the heavy parts you carry in your body and the hopes that you have yet to speak aloud? Healing is not a linear process. Let us explore the winding path that is you: in the memories of your past, in the experience of the present, and in the possibilities of the future.
Trans Lifeline
Trans Lifeline is a grassroots hotline and microgrants 501(c)(3) non-profit organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community. The hotline number 877-565-8860.
Resonant Relationships
All of us at Resonant Relationships share a commitment to providing affirmative, competent, and quality care to our clients. Many of us have pursued additional training and education in working with the communities we serve, and most of us are members of those communities ourselves.
Therapy and Support for BIPOC Artists
Therapy for Black Girls
Therapy for Black Girls is an online space dedicated to encouraging the mental wellness of Black women and girls.
Ayana
We strive to address the strong lack of engagement between minorities and the mental health care industry which arises as a result of cost, stigma, and lack of cultural competency. We achieve this by matching users with licensed professionals that share their unique traits, values, and sensibilities.
The Loveland Foundation
Loveland Foundation is committed to showing up for communities of color in unique and powerful ways, with a particular focus on Black women and girls.
The Washington Counselors of Color Network
The Washington Counselors of Color Network serves an array of ethnic clients needing counseling and therapy from providers who understand the specific needs of people of color and various cultures. As licensed therapists and counselors, we have a variety of backgrounds, experiences, ethnicities and language skills needed to assist many ethnicities in Washington.
Resonant Relationships
While all of our therapists share a commitment to cultural humility and anti-oppression work, several have sought out additional training, experience, and self-work to more effectively address the role of culture, oppression, racism, and discrimination within our intersecting identities. In our bios, we specifically disclose information about our own identities because we recognize it may be important for you to have a therapist that reflects or aligns with your experiences.
Asian, Pacific Islander, and South Asian American (APISAA) Therapist Directory
Through projects such as our Facebook group, resource library, video web-series, and meetup groups, we hope to not only provide mental health support, but also facilitate the difficult conversations we need to have to move forward together.
Inclusive Therapist
To that, add the challenges that marginalized populations face such as micro-aggressions, prejudice, and language/ financial barriers. Getting the right help can become an overwhelming task.
National Queer and Trans Therapists Network
National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN) is a healing justice organization committed to transforming mental health for queer and trans people of color (QTPoC).
Mental Health Resources for Young People of Color
Young people of color are resilient. But being a young person of color in America today can mean consistent exposure to traumatic incidents directed at their communities, whether in person, on television or through social media. While awareness can spur action that results in change, it can also take an emotional toll on young people that can impact other facets of their lives like schooling and relationships.
Podcasts
The Hilarious World of Depression
Clinical depression is one of the most common and yet most stigmatized mental health conditions. And not all forms of depression are created equal. Depression can take as many forms as there are people who have it. That’s what host John Moe hopes you’ll take away from his numerous interviews with public figures like Darryl McDaniels from hip-hop group Run-DMC and Peter Sagal of the popular NPR show “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!”
Latinx Therapy
Tune in with Adriana Alejandre, LMFT to the weekly podcast that discusses mental health topics related to Latinas, Latinos and Latinx individuals in efforts to demystify myths and diagnoses. Cultural and commonly stigmatized themes will be discussed with Latinx mental health professionals, psychiatrists, doctors, bloggers, tv personalities, social media influencers, entrepreneurs and many more. Spanish segments are aired every other week!
Mental Illness Happy Hour
So many of us have dealt with mental and emotional trauma in our lives. Yet so few of us feel comfortable or even safe talking about it out loud. Host Paul Gilmartin hopes to change this with his lauded podcast, “Mental Illness Happy Hour.” Gilmartin interviews a variety of noted figures and celebrities about their experiences with mental illness or trauma.
Therapy for Black Girls
Founded by clinical psychologist Joy Harden Bradford, “Therapy for Black Girls” offers mental health resources and advice for both personal and professional development for African American women and beyond. Bradford also helps demystify therapy itself and the stigma surrounding it with her doctorate-level background in counseling psychology from the University of Georgia.
Wellness for Makers
My mission is to motivate and empower artists like you through education, mindful-living, and movement! In each episode, I will make information about the body more accessible by teaching you the tips, tricks, and strategies I use in my everyday routine.
Ripe Podcast w/ Barry Lee
“Ripe” is a podcast hosted by Barry Lee where Queer folks personally share their stories on how they’ve navigated their mental health.
Queer Public Health
Queer Public Health (QPH) podcast is a monthly podcast produced by Tagg Magazine, a media company dedicated to serving “Everything lesbian, queer, and under the rainbow.” QPH is your resource for queer health and wellness in the news.
Queer MEDucation
Please enjoy a series of expert interviews featuring medical providers, mental health professionals, advocates, and community members.
Pride In Our Health
Join Fenway Health as we explore a different LGBTQ health topic each episode. We’ll discuss the latest care options, learn about lifesaving medical breakthroughs, and gather expert advice on how to be a happier, healthier you.
Queer Women of Color
Join Money and Nikeeta, two Black Queer Troublemakers, by listening to the podcast – an insurgent audio syllabus that unites, ignites, and excites the QWOC community. QueerWOC is a space for queer women and folks of color rooted in reimagining healing, organizing, and community.
Techniques and Workshops
Coping with COVID: Centering Wellness and Self Care for Creatives
Creative Capital
In this online workshop Rhonda Wheatley leads a consideration of how this challenging period is highlighting changes artists might implement after the world settles into whatever new normal is emerging. Wheatley closes the workshop with a relaxing and grounding guided meditation and leave artists with wellness practices they may use on their own after the workshop.
Click here to view the workshop.
The Nap Ministry
The Nap Ministry engages with the power of performance art, site-specific installations, and community organizing to install sacred and safe spaces for the community to rest together. They facilitate immersive workshops and curate performance art that examines rest as a radical tool for community healing.
Self Care + Studio Practices
CERF+
Each video focuses on some of the common problems faced by artists with an active studio practice and includes tips that help relieve strain and reduce the risk of injury.
Grounding Techniques for Panic Attacks, Anxiety, Trauma Symptoms & Racing Thoughts
Dr. Maria Espinola
In this video, Dr. Maria Espinola shares grounding skills for panic attacks, high anxiety, trauma symptoms (e.g. dissociation, flashbacks), and racing thoughts.
Click here to watch the video.
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