Mental Health and Wellness Resources
Published: November 4, 2024
Categories: Mental Health & Wellness | Resources
A growing list of resources and tools to support your mental health and wellness.
Community-Based Resources
Frye Art Museum Creative Aging Programs
An offering of programs for adults to engage in creative lifelong learning. Programs explore the rich potential of aging and offer opportunities to impact the community’s health and wellbeing.
National Alliance of Mental Health (NAMI) Support Groups
NAMI support groups are are free, drop-in, and peer-led.
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Metro Parks Tacoma Nature is Medicine Mindfulness Meetings
A space for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) to practice mindfulness together in nature. Participants practice breathing, take in the wonders of their surroundings, and write to communally reflect to awaken the mind and heart. Held at the Seymour Conservatory in Tacoma.
Northwest 2-Spirit Society Support 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.
Ingersoll Gender Center Peer Support Group
This trans led peer support group has been meeting every week no matter the weather or holidays for over 40 years. Ingersoll Gender Center’s 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.
Rest of Resistance QTPoC Facebook Group
This Facebook group is for for queer and trans people of color.
RAINS
RAINS seeks to empower, educate, and advocate for the RAINBOW (LGBTQ+) community and its allies in Cowlitz County and surrounding areas. RAINS knows there is a need in Cowlitz County and surrounding areas for LGBTQ+ inclusive services, resources, and educational opportunities. They are working within the community to accomplish this, build a network, and provide safe events where everyone can be accepted, valued, and live authentically as themselves.
Noor Seattle Queer Muslim Collective Facebook Group
Confidential Facebook group & gathering space for BIPOC LGBT+ Muslims* (past & present) in Seattle.
South King Emotional Wellness League
South King Emotional Wellness League (SKEWL) was formed to address the emotional well-being of historically marginalized communities in South King County most impacted by Covid-19 and police violence. They offer free, virtual therapy sessions for BIPOC individuals.
Bloedel Reserve Strolls for Wellbeing
Strolls for Well-Being is a free seasonal program at Bloedel Reserve (located on Bainbridge Island) that supports connection with nature and mindfullness through a series of 12 self-guided walks and group meetings.
New BoyZ Club Support Group
This group is only open to people who are AFAB and who identify as FTM Transgender, Transmasculine, Non-binary, and Gender-queer, as well as questioning their gender identity.
TrikeoneNW
Trikone Northwest has been serving the South Asian community in Seattle for over 20 years. They 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. TrikeoneNW is a community based organization which is 100% volunteer run.
Mother Nation Weekly Healing Circles
Mother Nation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that delivers social and cultural healing services for Native women that nurture, create stability, and inspire growth through sisterhood. They provide cultural healing circles, homeless prevention, mentorship, workshops, and training to transform the journey of Native women into natural leadership and restore the cultural strength of Native people in the world.
Guides, Tips, and Tools
Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (BEAM)
BEAM offers skill based trainings that help Black communities learn healing justice informed peer support practices. They offer virtual trainings, community events, a podcast, and a variety of wellness tools available on their website.
Brown Girl Therapy Instagram
Brown Girl Therapy is an Instagram account filled with resources for children of immigrants.
Granite Recovery Centers
While considered by some as new-age or unconventional, art therapy has emerged in recent years as an incredibly instrumental form of therapy that can be very beneficial. This form of therapy has been found to assist with improving self-esteem, perception, emotional processing, and mindfulness in those recovering from Substance Abuse Disorder.
Psychology Today
Psychology Today is the world’s largest mental health and behavioral science destination online. It is the original and largest publishing enterprise that is exclusively dedicated to human behavior. Our motto is “Here to Help,” and the resources you’re accessing right now are the worldwide destination of choice for expert-authored information about psychology and mental health.
The Nap Ministry
The Nap Ministry was founded in 2016 by Tricia Hersey and is an organization that examines the liberating power of naps. Their “rest is resistance” framework and practice 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.
Ingersoll Gender Center Trans & Gender Non-conforming Resource Guides
These guides are meant for trans and/or gender non-conforming folks in Snohomish, Pierce & Thurston Counties. These guides were created through surveys, meetings, listening sessions, and community conversations with folks in these counties and community based organizations that support and directly work with these communities.
Meditation & Mindfulness
Mindful.org
Website offering a variety of meditation and mindfulness guides and resources.
UCLA Mindful
Free guided meditations in a variety of languages available online and via the UCLA Mindful app.
Podcasts
Latinx Therapy
*Still airing
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
*Still airing
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
*Still airing
The Therapy for Black Girls Podcast is a weekly chat about all things mental health, personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible versions of ourselves.
Wellness for Makers
*No longer airing
Podcast archive aimed to motivate and empower artists 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.
Therapy Directories
Asian Mental Health Collective
AMHC believes in integrating our shared backgrounds with the progressive ideals of emotional well-being and mental health – expressing collectivist ideals while respecting the agency of the individual. It all begins with understanding. Through projects such as their Facebook group, resource library, video web-series, and meetup groups, they hope to not only provide mental health support, but also facilitate the difficult conversations we need to have to move forward together.
Better Help
Making professional therapy accessible, affordable, and convenient — so anyone who struggles with life’s challenges can get help, anytime and anywhere.
Cor Counselling and Wellness
Cor Counselling and Wellness is a team of specialists dedicated to providing counseling services that combine compassionate care with evidence-based treatment. During difficult times they 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.
Consejo Counseling & Referral Service
Consejo Counseling and Referral Service is an award-winning agency that has provided behavioral health services to the Latino community in the state of Washington for nearly four decades, with locations across Western Washington. Most of Consejo’s clients are immigrants from Latin America who speak Spanish, representing the largest growing community in the United States today.
Counseling Washington
Since 1999, THE Directory of Washington State’s Outstanding Counselors/Therapists/Clinical Social Workers.
Inclusive Therapists
Inclusive Therapists centers the needs of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BI&POC) and the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. They amplify the voices and expressions of Neurodivergent and Disabled communities and are a mental health liberation movement creating change through decolonial education, collective care, and activism.
Latinx Therapy
Latinx Therapy was founded in 2018 with the mission to destigmatize mental health in the Latinx community. Since then, they have expanded to become a bilingual podcast and national directory to find a Latinx Therapist (98% of the directory are Spanish speakers). Latinx Therapy strives to provides culturally-grounded workshops and services to their community.
Mental Health Liberation
This community-driven nonprofit empowers BIPOC clinicians to offer therapy and mentorship back to our BIPOC communities. Programs include free, quality therapy services and healing circles for Black, Indigenous, and Communities of Color, prioritizing people with intersecting marginalized identities.
Mindful Therapy Group
Mindful Therapy Group is a collaborative group of diverse and talented Mental Health Professionals coming together with a wide variety of specialties to serve the greater Seattle area. They 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.
MyWellbeing
Therapy is about feeling seen, heard, and understood. At MyWellbeing, they recognize the courage it takes to practice vulnerability; to share, grieve, and heal; and to put language to our wants and needs.
National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN)
NQTTCN envisions a world where all people have access to healing resources rooted in social justice and liberation to recover from trauma, violence, and systemic oppression. They specifically acknowledge the harm and violence perpetuated by the medical-industrial complex and actively work to both intervene directly on this system as well as create new systems of care for their communities.
Open Path Psychotherapy Collective
In partnership with licensed mental health clinicians in private practice throughout the fifty states and Canada, Open Path Psychotherapy Collective provides middle and lower-income level individuals, couples, families, and children with access to affordable psychotherapy and mental health education services.
South Asian Therapists
Founded by Raj Kaur in June 2020, South Asian Therapists has quickly become the largest South Asian mental health community in the world.
TherapyTribe
Since inception, TherapyTribe has been passionate about using the power of the Internet to connect people in need. It is their purpose to help people find key mental health resources like therapists, support groups, and wellness tools, as well as an overall sense of community.
This list was last updated November 4, 2024.
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