Mental Health Crisis Response in California
You can access your local crisis hotline 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The California Coalition for Youth also has a youth line available. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, stressed, or just need someone to talk to, call or text 1-800-843-5200. If you are experiencing thoughts of suicide, you can always call the National Suicide Prevention hotline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
The State of Mental Health in California
California ranks 21st in the United States for mental healthcare. California Mental Health Service Authority aims to increase accessibility and utilization, and improve outcomes by focusing on early prevention, transparency, and cultural competency. Training qualified therapists, counselors, and psychologists ensures that Californians will receive high quality care. California’s diverse population requires the workforce to learn to learn about unique challenges they may encounter. Therapists are trained in an array of skills and techniques to enable them to work with racially, ethnically, and culturally diverse populations. Focusing on early diagnosis in youth, CalMHSA makes it easier for youth to get their mental health needs met. This includes increasing access through California’s school systems. By increasing awareness, easing access to therapists, psychologists, and school counselors, and developing the workforce, California is armed with the initiatives to increase prevention of mental health illnesses.
Community Mental Health Services Block Grant
The Community Mental Health Services Block Grant is dedicated to alleviating the financial burdens associated with receiving mental healthcare. Adults with severe mental illness and children with severe emotional disturbance are prioritized for these funds. The California State Department Health Care Services (DHCS) allocates this money, and administers care that encompasses over 150 individual programs that are supported by the block grant. Learn more about the CMHS Block Grant here.
For assistance in navigating treatment for substance abuse in California, contact the California Substance Abuse Line at 1-844-326-2626. This line is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
If you are LGBTQ+ and you need support, contact The Trevor Project at 1-866-488-7386.
NAMI California
The National Alliance for Mental Illness, or NAMI, is open to anyone struggling with mental illness. NAMI is an inclusive and community-based resource geared towards raising awareness and supporting group members on their journey to recovery. With group counseling sessions led by a trained member with a diagnosis (past or present), meetings follow a set of 12 principles for support. NAMI meetings are meant to complement your existing treatment plan with your counselor or psychologist. There are many chapters of NAMI that meet in California. Find yours here.
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Work together finding the most effective approach to meet your therapeutic needs. My goal is to provide you with a safe space and I feel very humbled to be a participant in the change process of my clients.
Work together finding the most effective approach to meet your therapeutic needs. My goal is to provide you with a safe space and I feel very humbled to be a participant in the change process of my clients.
I consider my work with clients to be a collaborative process to help children, adolescents, and adults find the most effective ways to cope with emotional experiences that might arise as a result of various life situations or trauma.
Clients I work with identify how old protective mechanisms and acknowledge there purpose. My clients work to allow space for those behaviors to step back as they move towards more effective skills. My clients move towards living not just surviving.
Clients I work with identify how old protective mechanisms and acknowledge there purpose. My clients work to allow space for those behaviors to step back as they move towards more effective skills. My clients move towards living not just surviving.
Therapy is hard! However, I try to create a space where my clients feel comfortable going towards those difficult places so that they can move through them. My clients work to live in line with their values and authentically, which increases peace.
Work through stressors, trauma, life changes, or anything else that may be affecting your current emotional well-being.
Work through stressors, trauma, life changes, or anything else that may be affecting your current emotional well-being.
The therapeutic relationship is extremely important to me. I hope to create an atmosphere where you feel comfortable expressing and exploring difficult feelings and emotions. I utilize different modalities based on what works best for you.
work through feeling anxious, scared, alone, fearful, defeated, disappointed, confused, tired, depressed, unmotivated and/or lost - I am absolutely here to help. Steering you towards your ultimate path will always be the goal.
work through feeling anxious, scared, alone, fearful, defeated, disappointed, confused, tired, depressed, unmotivated and/or lost - I am absolutely here to help. Steering you towards your ultimate path will always be the goal.
My intuition and skills work hand-in-hand. You don't just get the text-book me, but you get the real me - the honest me that helps push you in the direction you want for your life.
We will work together to identify your goals and develop a plan of action to help you achieve them. I will teach you new skills that you can practice, and then we will decide if these skills are beneficial or if we should try something new.
We will work together to identify your goals and develop a plan of action to help you achieve them. I will teach you new skills that you can practice, and then we will decide if these skills are beneficial or if we should try something new.
My approach is very collaborative and I work together with my client to find new solutions to their struggles. I try to help you view things in a different light to help relive anxiety. I will self-disclose when appropriate to offer personal insight.