Black Healing Event | Resource Guide

If you missed the live stream, watch the video recap below!

Topics

Healing from trauma and protecting your mental health

• PTSD

  • Signs, symptoms, treatments

• Community 

  • Finding support, creating community

• Feeling Safe 

  • What is consent/how do you ask for consent?

• Moving Forward

  • Coping & resilience 

Resources

• Michigan Laws related to consent, statutes of limitation, confidentiality laws, legal definitions and more {link}

• Find a CBT therapist. CBT has been found to be effective for treating PTSD {link}

• Domestic Shelter Database. Features shelters for people experiencing domestic violence. Resources for those facing verbal, physical, emotional or psychological abuses and/or their supporters {link}

• Psychology Today features lots of valuable search databases. 

  • Find local therapist here

  • Find telehealth services - via internet or phone here

  • Search for support groups here

  • Check out their overview of PTSD here

  • Check out their overview of anxiety here

  • Check out their overview of trauma here

  • Check out their overview of depression here

  • Check out their overview of eating disorders here

  • Check out their overview of happiness here

  • Check out their overview of relationships here

  • Check out their overview of therapy here

  • They also have a slew of self-tests to help you self-identify here

• The Breathe Network connects survivors with holistic practitioners who offer services on a sliding scale. They encourage holistic practices such as acupuncture, massage, cranial-sacral therapy, somatic therapy, sound healing, yoga, hypnotherapy, dance, fung shui and more. 

  • Check out their list of healing modalities for sexual trauma and providers here

• The Somatic Experiencing Institute is a great resource for how trauma manifests in the body and how you can cope.

  • Their website features a great graphic if you are in a crisis moment, to help you recenter your body check out there SCOPE technique here

  • If you are looking for a SE practitioner they have a directory here

• The Healing Honey mental health posts

  • Resilience | A Guide to Getting Through Your Life Trauma & Maintaining Positive Mental Health here

  • 10 Tips for Seasonal Depression here

  • 50 Affirmations for Self Love here

  • Let’s Talk About Suicide…here

  • 3 Simple Steps to Self-Care here

  • Silencing Your Inner Saboteur here

  • 5 Ways Meditation Will Improve Your Life here

  • 11 Grounding Tips here

• Calm App meditation resources here

• YouTube Videos

  • Diaphragmatic breathing here

  • Progressive muscle relaxation video suggestions here

    • Here’s a quick video demonstration

  • Breathing techniques

    • 2:1 technique video

    • 4-8-7 technique video

    • 10 Minute Guided Meditation for Self-Love and Compassion video

    • 15 Minute Meditation for Self Love video

• SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has a large online database containing data, programs, locators and other resources for mental health and substance use supports. 

  • View SAMHSA’s Behavioral Health Treatment Services Locator here

  • View SAMHSA’s Opioid Treatment Program Directory here

  • View SAMHSA’s Early Serious Mental Illness Treatment Locator here

  • View SAMHSA’s Treatments for Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs here

  • View SAMHSA’s Implementing Behavioral Health Crisis Care (PDFs) here

  Hotlines

• RAINN 

  • National Sexual Assault Hotline (24/7 800-656-4673

  • RAINN live chat link

• National Suicide Hotline 

  • 1(800)-273-8255 

  • Lifeline chat link

• SAMHSA National Hotline (24/7) (English & Spanish) for mental health and substance use support

  • 1(800)-662-4357

  Therapy Worksheets

• Available PDFs to view or download

  • 10 Commandments for Stress Reduction

  • Chill Out Exercise

  • Controlled Breathing Log

  • Diaphragmatic Breathing

  • Progressive Muscle Relaxation

  • Safe Coping Skill Ideas

  • Safety Plan

  • Self Care Checkup

  • Sleep Problems Self Help

  • Stress & Mood Self Help

  • Stress Relievers

  • Ways to Feel Better Right Now

  • You Can Change the Way You Think

  Local Therapist

• Jewel, MA, LLPC, NCC

  Holistic Counselor & Wellness Coach

  admin@thehealinghoney.com

  248-622-2024

• LaKema Covington

  Reiki 1 & 2 Practitioner 

  Covington’s Kitchen of Healing and Wellness

  ckhealingandwellness@gmail.com

  (248) 397-4676

• Christopher C. Harris, LPC, NCC

  Professional Counselor

  ccharrispc.com

  313-205-6597

• Raynard Meridith, MA, LPC, LLC

  Clinical Therapist

  RaynardTheCounselor@gmail.com

  True Thoughts, LLC

  22511 Telegraph Rd

  St 129

  Southfield, MI 48033

  (248) 759-8853

  Currently accepts BCBSM and BCN insurances

• Thierra Lane, MA, LPC, TLLP, NCC

  Mind Management Institute, Founder and CEO

  www.Themmi.org

  Thrive Therapy Group

  42500 Hayes Rd

  Clinton Township, MI 48038

  (313) 251-1124

  See Thierra’s bio for more info here