Mental Health Hotline Articles
How to Find Therapy That Your Insurance Covers
Approximately 67 million people, or 20% of the population of the United States, have a mental illness. Despite the prevalence of mental illness, millions struggle to find the money to gain access to effective forms of treatment, and it’s fair to wonder if your health insurance covers therapy. Knowing your
What To Do If You’re Not Clicking With You’re Therapist
Picture this: You’re excited to start therapy and improve yourself. You find a therapist, attend a few sessions and start thinking to yourself, “I don’t like my therapist.” If this scenario sounds familiar to you, know that you’re not alone. Keep reading to find out how to tell your therapist
What Do Therapists Do with Assessment Tests?
Starting therapy can help you turn the page to a better phase of life, but it can also be intimidating and even a little scary, especially if you’ve never sought help before. It doesn’t make it any easier that many therapists start the process by giving you a psychological evaluation.
How Does Relationship Counseling Work?
With dating apps like Tinder and Bumble, it can often feel like there are endless options for partners right at your fingertips. As a result, people are quick to break off relationships. Psychiatrist and author Dr. Carole Lieberman says, “Nowadays, people are often too quick to give up on relationships
Self Harm and Mental Health
When feelings of intense sadness, anger or stress get the better of us, it’s human nature to seek relief from our pain — even if it hurts us. Self-harm, also known as nonsuicidal self-injury, refers to deliberately injuring yourself without suicidal intent. People use self-harm as a “release valve” to
Sexual Abuse and Mental Health
Scandals have made headlines recently involving sexual abuse of minors in major organizations such as the Catholic Church, Southern Baptist Convention, Boy Scouts of America, and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It’s no surprise, then, that thousands of people are living day to day with highly traumatic