Resource Materials

Crisis Care
If you are having a true physical or mental health emergency:
Dial 911 or go to your nearest emergency room
Colorado’s Crisis Hotline (844)493-8255
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 988

Introduction to Therapy

  • For tips on how to make the most of your time in therapy, click here.

  • For tips for making the most of telehealth therapy, click here

  • How do I choose a therapist? Click here

About Treatment Modalities

  • For more information about ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), click here
    and The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living by Russ Harris.

  • For an introduction to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), click here

  • For an introduction to the notion of Self-Compassion, click here

Grief and Loss
On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D. and David Kessler

It’s Okay that You’re Not Okay; Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture that Doesn’t Understand by Megan Devine


Compassion Fatigue
Trauma Stewardship: An Everday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others
by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky with Connie Burk


General
For some “guidance” in creation, destruction and letting go, I recommend:

Wreck this Journal by Kerri Smith (scope it out before you buy so you are not surprised).

The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living, by Russ Harris