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Crisis Resources

Crisis Connections

Call 988 or 1-866-427-4747

Crisis Connections has multiple helplines including: 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, Washington Teen Link, Washington Recovery Help Line, and Washington Warm Line. In addition to their helplines, Crisis Connections supports survivors of suicide, provides community outreach, and offers youth suicide prevention education.

Crisis Text Line

Text HOME to 741741

Crisis Text Line offers free, 24/7 support for those in crisis. Text 741741 from anywhere in the US to text with a trained Crisis Counselor.

Trans Lifeline

Call 877-565-8860.

Trans Lifeline is a hotline and microgrants organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis. It is staffed by trans people, for trans people.

The Trevor Project

Call 1-866-488-7386 or text 678-678.

The Trevor Project provides information & support to LGBTQ+ 
young people 24/7 all year round. Young people can reach out to a counselor if they’re struggling, find answers and information, and get the tools they need to help someone else.

 

Local Resources

A Resting Place

A Resting Place is a community grief support center located in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District, which offers a space for people to explore their grief through cultural work and resources. Specifically, A Resting Place draws from aspects of Filipino identity, language, cultural values & psychology to bring comfort and connection to all people in their path of loss.

Antioch University Community Counseling and Psychology Clinic

The Community Counseling and Psychology Clinic provides counseling services to people of all ages and incomes in the community. Trained in a variety of clinical psychology and counseling techniques, student therapists consult with you to identify the best approach for your situation. In partnership with seasoned, licensed psychologists and counselors, the Clinic provides supervised learning opportunities for graduate students, with special attention to understanding multicultural differences. Sessions as low as $0.

Asian Counseling & Referral Service

Asian Counseling and Referral Service (ACRS) is a nationally recognized nonprofit organization working for social justice and offering a broad array of behavioral health programs, human services and civic engagement activities for Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders and other communities in King County and beyond.

Atlantic Street Center

Atlantic Street Center provides educational, family support, and behavioral health counseling services for children, youth, and their families. They primarily serve no- and low-income African American families and other families of color who reside in the Greater Seattle area.

Bastyr Center for Natural Health

Counseling services at Bastyr are ideally suited to provide short-term treatment (typically no more than 12 sessions). Appointments are generally scheduled on a weekly basis. Student clinicians are closely supervised by a licensed mental health professional who oversees the sessions. We refer to outside services or providers when appropriate. Sessions cost $35.

Benson Heights Rehabilitation Center

Benson Heights Rehabilitation Center offers skilled nursing and behavioral health services in addition to short-term rehabilitation. Benson Heights Rehabilitation Center is located in Kent, WA.

Bridges Center for Grieving Children

Bridges offers support groups for grieving children ages 4-18 who have experienced the death of a parent or sibling or who are living with someone who is seriously ill.

Catholic Community Services of Western Washington

Catholic Community Services and Catholic Housing Services are outreaches of the Catholic Church in Western Washington. They provide integrated services and housing support to individuals, children, families, and communities struggling with poverty and the effects of intolerance and racism.

City University Counseling Center

The City University of Seattle Counseling Center is an outpatient counseling center that offers low-cost counseling services and is open to the public. Their counselors are trained to provide professional and compassionate services in a safe, confidential environment. Sessions cost as low as $5-25.

Community House Mental Health Agency

Community House helps people with severe and persistent mental illness increase their social, vocational, and life skills. Their services include therapy, case and medication management, housing, and more.

Consejo Counseling & Referral Services

Consejo is a licensed, award-winning treatment center offering outpatient behavioral health care, trauma-informed care, and supportive transitional housing to survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, as well as their families. Consejo provides services to children, youth, adults, and elders in King, Pierce, and Thurston/Mason Counties.

Domestic Abuse Women’s Network (DAWN)

DAWN operates a 24-hour Advocacy and Support Line to provide information and resources, safety planning, support, and to connect survivors to advocacy services. DAWN also offers training aimed at providing professionals, volunteers and community partners with the information they need to advocate for survivors of domestic violence.

Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC)

DESC works to end the homelessness of vulnerable people, particularly those living with serious mental illnesses, substance use disorders, and/or chronic health conditions.

EvergreenHealth’s In-Home Mental Health (IHMH)

EvergreenHealth’s IHMH team provides counseling and case management services to adult King County Medicaid clients at their private residence, adult family home, assisted living facility or skilled nursing facilities when situations exist that interfere with traveling to an agency setting for support services.

Fairfax Behavioral Health

Fairfax Behavioral Health is a private, free-standing mental health hospital that specializes in psychiatric and detox treatment. Programs are available for teens (ages 13-17) and adults (18+).

Guided Pathways Support

Guided Pathways Support empowers and supports families and youth in King County struggling with behavioral health challenges in navigating resources to achieve wellness and resilience. They provide peer support to guide youth through their hard times, and provide classes, trainings, and one-on-one support to parent support providers.

Harborview Mental Health & Addiction Services

Services available include care for substance abuse and addiction, depression and other mood disorders treatment, integrated behavioral health, medication management, outpatient mental health, personality disorders treatment, individual and group psychotherapy, schizophrenia treatment, senior psychiatry, suicide prevention, and supported employment and housing.

Healing Center

Grief is a universal experience, but we don’t talk about it universally. The Healing Center creates space for people experiencing loss to share memories, learnings, challenges, and even laughter. Their grief support options span all ages and stages in your grief process.

HealthPoint

HealthPoint is a community-based, community-supported, and community-governed network of non-profit health centers dedicated to providing expert, high-quality care to all who need it, regardless of circumstances. HealthPoint has 20 locations offering a broad array of services that include medical care, dental care, naturopathic medicine, behavioral health care, social services, and case management.

Hero House

HERO House NW is the administrative and advocating body for three clubhouses in Washington State: Seattle, Bellevue, and Everett. Clubhouses are organized to support people living with mental illness by providing an integrative approach that helps members acquire skills within a safe, friendly and structured environment. Clubhouse members gain access to opportunities to rejoin the worlds of friendships, family, employment and education, and to the services and support they may individually need to continue their recovery.

King County Housing Authority

King County Housing Authority provides rental housing and rental assistance to low-income people and families.

King County Sexual Assault Resource Center (KCSARC)

KCSARC provides services that include medical advocacy, information and referral, legal advocacy, therapy, parent support, and a 24-hour support line.

MEND

MEND Seattle provides quality, reasonable-cost mental health counseling to individuals, couples and groups. MEND is a collective of healers with diverse educational backgrounds and identities committed to an anti-oppressive and liberatory approach to therapy. We emphasize serving the QTBIPOC (Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color) Community. Sessions cost between $50-120.

MultiCare Behavioral Health

MultiCare Behavioral Health provides care throughout Pierce County in an atmosphere of dignity and respect for patients facing serious mental health and substance use disorders.

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Seattle

NAMI Seattle provides advocacy, education, support and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives.

Navos

Navos is a “health care home” that provides integrated care where clients can receive primary care as well as treatment for their mental illness or addiction, coordinated and supported by staff to ensure the best chance of a healthy outcome. Navos can also help clients find a job, tell them about housing options, and more.

Pacific Lutheran University Couple and Family Therapy Center

CFTC offers affordable, high-quality therapy to individuals, couples, and families. CFTC offer support for people experiencing a wide range of concerns, including family challenges, parenting issues, depression, anxiety, divorce, trauma, communication problems, anger management, sex and sexuality concerns, grief and loss, religious and spiritual struggles, and couple/relationship issues. Sessions cost between $5-60.

Pioneer Human Services

Pioneer Human Services assists people reentering society from prison or jail as well as those who are overcoming substance use disorders and mental health issues. The organization offers an integrated array of treatment, housing, training and employment services.

Psychotherapy Cooperative

The Psychotherapy Cooperative provides affordable counseling and therapy services to those who are not otherwise able to afford these services from therapists in private practice or from community mental health agencies. Their goal is to provide quality counseling services where the duration and style of therapy is determined by the needs of the client rather than by limits imposed by insurance companies, managed health care, or limited income. Pay what you can afford per session.

Ryther

Ryther provides therapeutic services to young people who are struggling emotionally and behaviorally with mental illness, trauma, substance use, and autism spectrum disorders. Ryther’s services include sub-acute residential care, mental health outpatient services, neurodiverse services, child and family counseling and support, and chemical dependency outpatient assessments and treatment for teens.

Sea Mar Community Health Centers

Sea Mar Community Health Centers is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to Latinos.

Seattle Children’s Hospital

For more than 100 years, Seattle Children’s Hospital has specialized in meeting the unique physical, emotional and developmental needs of children from infancy through young adulthood. Through the collaboration of physicians in nearly 60 pediatric subspecialties, Seattle Children’s Hospital provides inpatient, outpatient, diagnostic, surgical, rehabilitative, behavioral, emergency and outreach services – regardless of a family’s ability to pay.

Seattle Indian Health Board (SIHB)

SIHB provides community health care and services targeting the urban American Indian and Alaska Native population in the greater Seattle/King County area. With doctors, nurses, and staff from various cultural and educational backgrounds, SIHB’s medical team is equipped to provide integrated care in a comfortable environment for relatives of all ages. SIHB educates on preventative care and works with relatives to develop health plans to address physical, mental, and behavioral issues in a culturally attuned way.

Snoqualmie Behavioral Health Services

Snoqualmie Behavioral Health Services provides a wide spectrum of individual and group outpatient mental health services and substance use disorder treatment.

Sound

Sound provides comprehensive recovery-oriented outpatient counseling and case management for King County residents experiencing current mental health symptoms, including specialized programs for adults, children and families, older adults, individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color), the developmentally disabled, and criminal or juvenile justice involved adults and youth.

Therapeutic Health Services (THS)

THS serves thousands of men, women, children and young adults struggling with behavioral health issues in Washington state. THS supports people challenged by substance use and mental health conditions. THS accepts Medicaid and Apple Health so people with little to no income can get care.

Transitional Resources

Transitional Resources serves low-income adults in King County who are living with serious mental illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder. Transitional Resources offers a full spectrum of optimistic and respectful mental health services and supported housing to their clients, the vast majority of which come from living houseless or long psychiatric hospitalizations in state hospitals.

UTOPIA Washington

United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliance Washington (UTOPIA Washington) is a queer and trans people of color led grassroots organization born out of the struggles, challenges, strength and resilience of the Queer and Trans Pacific Islander community in South King County. They aim to create a safe, welcoming, supportive, and vibrant space to address basic needs, build pathways toward new expanded career and life opportunities, foster a sense of common purpose, and advocate for social justice, education, and overall wellness among members of the Pacific Islander LGBTQIA+ community.

Valley Cities Counseling & Consultation

Valley Cities provides inpatient and outpatient mental health and substance use disorder treatment, along with support services for adults, children, and families living in King County.

Washington State Department of Veteran Affairs: Counseling Services & Wellness Programs

The Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs maintains a one-of-a-kind, state-funded outreach/counseling program designed to provide confidential counseling services to Washington State veterans and family members.

YMCA of Greater Seattle: Counseling Services

YMCA of Greater Seattle provides counseling services that span mental health, substance use, and psychiatric care for people in King County. YMCA accepts Medicaid and cash payments, and they offer financial aid using a sliding scale in order to expand access to services. The Y also has programs for youth and young adults. In addition, the Children’s Crisis Outreach Response System provides help for kids, young adults, and/or families who may be experiencing an acute mental health crisis.

YouthCare

YouthCare works to end youth homelessness and to ensure that young people are valued for who they are and empowered to achieve their potential. YouthCare’s services include shelter and housing, workforce development, high school diploma and GED programs, and basic need fulfillment.

 

National Resources, Hotlines, & Helplines

AAKOMA

The AAKOMA Project offers 5 sessions of FREE virtual therapy with culturally competent providers nationwide. Patients must be 12-30 years of age, a member of a racially/culturally marginalized community to qualify for this support, and the program is only open to those new to therapy.

Cancer Lifeline

Cancer Lifeline offers a variety of services for individuals and families who are living with cancer including free classes, consultations, a 24-hour support line, and community center.

Deaf Hotline

The Deaf Hotline is a 24/7 hotline that is ASL accessible for people experiencing abuse. With the Deaf Hotline, you can consult with a culturally-adept and trained advocate in ASL.

Domestic Abuse Women’s Network (DAWN)

DAWN operates a 24-hour Advocacy and Support Line to provide information and resources, safety planning, support, and to connect survivors to advocacy services. DAWN also offers training aimed at providing professionals, volunteers and community partners with the information they need to advocate for survivors of domestic violence.

DVHopeline

DVHopeline advocates listen, talk, provide resources, and help you stay safe. DVHopeline connects you to free, confidential places for help in King County, Washington, and other locations in Washington State. You can contact the DVHopeline in any language and we will provide an interpreter.

Help.org is dedicated to providing drug and alcohol rehab resources and support. They maintain comprehensive resources and guides, and connect people with treat programs that are right for them.

King County Sexual Assault Resource Center (KCSARC)

KCSARC provides services that include medical advocacy, information and referral, legal advocacy, therapy, parent support, and a 24-hour support line.

National Domestic Violence Hotline

The 24/7 National Domestic Violence Hotline provides essential tools and support to help survivors of domestic violence so they can live their lives free of abuse. Contacts to The Hotline can expect highly-trained, expert advocates to offer free, confidential, and compassionate support, crisis intervention information, education, and referral services in over 200 languages.

StrongHearts Native Helpline

StrongHearts is a 24/7, national domestic and sexual violence helpline that is culturally-appropriate for Native Americans and Alaska Natives. They also help concerned friends and relatives understand how best to support a victim-survivor or someone who is abusing their partner to talk about change and find help.

Trans Lifeline

Trans Lifeline is a hotline and microgrants organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis. It is staffed by trans people, for trans people.

The Trevor Project

The Trevor Project provides information & support to LGBTQ+ 
young people 24/7 all year round. Young people can reach out to a counselor if they’re struggling, find answers and information, and get the tools they need to help someone else.

 

Therapy Directories

Asian Mental Health Collective

The Asian Mental Health Collective aspires to make mental health easily available, approachable, and accessible to Asian communities worldwide. They have a directory of Asian American therapists.

Asians for Mental Health Directory

Asians for Mental Health was created to help Asians feel seen, heard, and empowered in their journeys towards better mental health.

Association of Black Psychologists

The Association of Black Psychologists sees its mission and destiny as the liberation of the African Mind, empowerment of the African Character, and enlivenment and illumination of the African Spirit. ABPsi has a directory of Black Mental Health and Wellness Professionals.

Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective (BEAM)

BEAM is a national training, movement building, and grant making institution that is dedicated to the healing, wellness, and liberation of Black and marginalized communities. They operate the Black Virtual Wellness Directory.

Deconstructing the Mental Health System (DMHS)

DMHS was founded as means to bring anti-racist therapists and wellness practitioners together to address the mental health system’s racial and financial inequities. They offer a B.I.PoC. Provider Directory with 300+ listings of mental health and cultural wellness professionals who are Black, Black Indigenous, Indigenous, People of Color, and QTPOC & LGBTQIA+ and affirming providers.

Inclusive Therapists

Inclusive Therapists believes connecting with a therapist, counselor, or coach should not feel like a gamble. Everyone, especially those with marginalized identities, deserves equitable access to radically affirming and culturally responsive mental health care. Inclusive Therapists centers the needs of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and LGBTQIA2S+ intersections (QTBIPOC); their mission prioritizes the voices and expressions of Neurodivergent and Disabled Communities of Color. Their directory allows you to explore a diverse range of specialties, identities, and payment options.

InnoPsych

InnoPsych’s mission is to bring healing to communities of color by changing the face and feel of therapy. They offer a directory to help people find therapists of color.

Institute for Muslim Mental Health

The Institute for Muslim Mental Health is committed to optimizing the Muslim community’s emotional health and well being by mobilizing a network of mental health professionals to ensure all American Muslims have access to high-quality resources. They operate the largest global directory of Muslim Mental Health Care providers to find a therapist aligned with your values.

Latinx Therapy

Latinx Therapy was founded with the mission to destigmatize mental health in the Latinx community. They operate a national directory for Latinx Therapists in private practice.

Melanin and Mental Health

Melanin & Mental Health was born out of a desire to connect individuals with culturally competent clinicians committed to serving the mental health needs of Black & Latinx/Hispanic communities. They are committed to promoting the growth and healing of communities through our website and online directory.

National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network

National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN) is a healing justice organization actively working to transform mental health for queer and trans Black, Indigenous and People of Color (QTBIPOC). They offer a mental health practitioner directory that helps QTBIPOC connect to QTBIPOC health practitioners.

Open Path Psychotherapy Collective

Open Path Psychotherapy Collective is a nonprofit nationwide network of mental health professionals dedicated to providing in-office and online mental health care—at a steeply reduced rate—to clients in need. Sessions cost between $40-70 ($30 for student intern sessions).

Seattle/King County Therapists of Color

A Google sheet including name, location, contact information, specialty/focus and applicable insurance information for therapists of color located in Seattle/King County.

South Asian Therapists

South Asian Therapists is the largest South Asian mental health therapist and counseling community in the world. Their directory has hundreds of South Asian therapists, including Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Afghani and Nepali heritage. Here you can find culturally competent South Asian mental health professionals to help you get the support you’re looking for.

Therapinay

Therapin*y (Therapist+Pin@/xy) is a space where ancestral healing and mental health services intersect. Their mission is to build Filipino resiliency through collective care, kapwa, and liberation. They offer a directory of therapists and healers who understand the Filipino/a/x experience.

Therapy for Black Girls

Therapy for Black Girls is an online space dedicated to encouraging the mental wellness of Black women and girls. Find trusted, culturally responsive therapists to provide support using their directory.

Therapy for Black Men

It’s no secret that finding the right therapist or coach can be a lengthy and challenging process. The Therapy for Black Men directory aims to make it simpler, by allowing you to search for a therapist or coach by their location and specialization.

Therapy for Latinx

Therapy for Latinx describes their directory as a Yelp for therapists for the Latinx community.

Therapy for Queer People of Color

Therapy for Queer People of Color strives to connect queer and trans people of color to affirming anti-oppressive mental health professionals. They center anti-racism, social justice, and the intersectional identities of every client they serve. They operate a QPoC Therapist Directory.

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. These licensed therapists and counselors have a variety of backgrounds, experiences, ethnicities and language skills needed to assist many ethnicities in Washington.