Here’s a non-comprehensive collection of info about therapy modalities I use. You’ll also find lots of mental health resources, some specific to the types of folks I often work with and a couple more general support sections at the end.
Internal Family Systems therapy resources
These are a few resources that help explain Internal Family Systems. The videos are informational. The Integral Guide is a deep dive into both IFS concepts and mental health in general. The last three on the list offer support for folks who want to start exploring their systems on their own.
Internal Family Systems—Meet Your Inner Family
If My Brain Held a Morning Meeting
This super-short video is a good overview of internal parts.
This six-minute video is a good overview of the model as a whole.
This eighteen-minute video talks about the model, the neuroscience behind it, and how this type of therapy differs from other types of experiential therapies.
The Integral Guide to Wellbeing
Collection of IFS meditations on Insight Timer curated by Ash Chudgar, my friend and IFS colleague
All Parts Welcome: The Queer and Trans Internal Family Systems Workbook
Existential therapy resources
It turns out there aren’t a lot of existential therapy resources out there for laypeople. Maybe someday I’ll do something about that, but in the meantime here are a handful of items—some pages and a book to check out.
Existential Therapy: Make Your Own Meaning
Brainspotting therapy resources
Education about Brainspotting and what to expect in a session. If you are good at parsing neuroscience, you will find interesting stuff in the last link, but some of those studies might also just make your brain hurt.
Brainspotting Therapy: A Sketch Animation
What to Expect in a Brainspotting Therapy Session
Research and case studies on the Brainspotting website
Social justice mental health resources
We need so many more of these than we have. The first link is a great roundup. Seize the Awkward looks like an ND-friendly resource and good for folks new to having mental health conversations. Fireweed Collective (formerly The Icarus Project) and Project LETS provide support and education from an abolitionist lens.
101 Online Mental Health Resources for Marginalized Communities
Rest for Resistance: QTPoC Mental Health
Sonia Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology
Resmaa Menakem: Somatic Abolitionism
Peer Support and Alternatives to Suicide
Disability mental health resources
Disability changes your life and shapes your life. These resources are a mix of personal stories and guidance from other disabled people about how to keep going.
How to Get On: A self-advocacy guide for anyone who is homebound or bedbound in the US
After the Diagnosis: From Crisis to Personal Renewal for Patients With Chronic Illness
Disability Visibility Project’s books
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s books
Grief and loss mental health resources
Grief is a wild ride. These resources are for leaning in to whatever experience you have, not giving you a prescribed process to go through. What’s Your Grief is a website with a fantastic collection of articles as well as short courses for grievers and those supporting them.
It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand
Loving Someone Who Has Dementia: How to Find Hope while Coping with Stress and Grief
The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change
Kink and poly mental health resources
There are many books out there about kink in particular that I suggest approaching with caution. The ones included here are by folks I trust. The Sex Geek Blog is pretty much an archive, but still a great kink and BDSM resource. The second half of this list offers some solid resources on polyamory.
The New Topping and The New Bottoming Books
The Anxious Person’s Guide to Non-Monogamy
Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
LGBTQIA+ mental health resources
This list has the classics (Kate Bornstein’s work) and some newer reads, as well as workbooks. “Hey I’m Trans” is good for coming out and transitioning support, and Transbucket is meant for folks seeking gender-affirming surgeries to share experiences with each other. There are also so many great queer and trans memoirs and narratives out there, if you’re looking for stories to relate to.
The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook (full PDF)
How to Understand Your Sexuality
All Parts Welcome: The Queer and Trans Internal Family Systems Workbook
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home
Men’s mental health resources
This is another list I wish was longer. I chose items for this list that don’t reinforce toxic masculinity and that do invite men to consider more deeply the experience of our own and others’ emotional lives.
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
Stiffed: The Roots of Modern Male Rage
Twin Cities Men’s Center (for those in Minnesota)
Immediate mental health support
None of the support lines on this list call the police as a practice, while most standard state or national crisis lines may do so.
Trans Lifeline: 877-565-8860
Thrive Lifeline: 313-662-8209
Call Blackline: 800-604-5841
Wildflower Alliance Peer Support Line: 888-407-4515
LGBTQ National Help Center Hotlines (multiple options)
StrongHearts Native Helpline: 844-762-8483
REP Crisis Line (Friday and Saturday evenings, Twin Cities, MN, area): 952-737-3730
Walk-In Counseling Center, 612-870-0565: Free, in-person support for folks in the Twin Cities, MN, area
Inclusive Therapists: Not an immediate support organization, but a therapist directory where you can actually find good fit therapists based on your identities. Skip Psychology Today and start here.
Therapy fund organizations
Where to get financial support for therapy.
National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network Mental Health Fund: For queer and trans Black, Indigenous, and people of color
The Loveland Foundation: For Black women and girls
BIPOC Therapy Fund: For Black, Indigenous, and people of color/Global Majority adults
The Lotus Therapy Fund: For the Asian American community
REBUILD from Darkness Rising: For formerly incarcerated individuals of color
Project Rainbow Turtle: For Indigenous 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals
Sanar Therapy Fund: For Black and Latina women
United Open Arms: For survivors of child or adult sexual abuse
