This page provides links and resources for the interested reader. Links are to other counselling and psychotherapy websites. Resources include information for Service Veterans and how to improve your sleep.
Counselling and Psychotherapy Websites
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
British Psychological Society (BPS)
My listing on the Counselling Directory
An interview with me on Relationships are Complicated website
My listing on the Find a Therapy website
An interview with me on Welldoing website
My listing on Psychology Today
If you would like to talk with someone right now on the telephone, the organisations below should be able to help:
The rest of the links and resources page is a miscellany of information ending up with a poem at the end of the page. For ideas on self help and other therapy books, please see my Bibliotherapy page.
Therapists
Actuality Counselling (Steve Manning, counsellor, supervisor & coach)
Psychotherapy & Counselling in Liverpool
Addictions Specialist Oxfordshire
Recovery Centres
This centre has provided me with three useful links:
How Isolation Impacts Your Mental Health
And one of my favourite themes:
Foods to improve mental health
The following centre offers information about drugs, alcohol, and PTSD:
The Recovery Village, Palm Beach
Here is a friends and family resource from the same organisation
Here are three more centres in the USA offering personalised addiction treatment etc, and accredited by the Joint Commission:
Ark Behavioural Health (“we strive to have our website be an educational resource by providing up-to-date, accurate, and evidence-based information related to substance abuse, mental health, and more” – personal communication).
New from Ark Behavioural Health on COVID:
How Covid-19 may affect mental health
Bedrock Recovery Center (“decades of knowledge in recovery treatments”; “up-to-date, accurate, and evidence-based information related to addiction, substance abuse, mental health, and treatment” – personal communication).
The following sites provide useful information about detox and finding drug/alcohol rehabilitation centres (in the USA):
The best drug and alcohol rehab center near you
A drug and alcohol detox center resource
Other Resources
The following article is from an organisation called Silent Professionals:
Will PTSD disqualify me from employment?
Here’s an interesting blog giving useful advice for students based on research studies from MyUrbanJungle:
How students can get ahead post-Covid
For information about sleep and how it can affect your mood:
FutureLearn (at the University of Michigan): this site offers training courses on dealing with sleep deprivation
Information for Services Veterans compiled by Lily Jones
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Poems
Our Deepest Fear by Marianne Williamson. A poem.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness
That most frightens us.
We ask ourselves
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small
Does not serve the world.
There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking
So that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine,
As children do.
We were born to make manifest
The glory of God that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us;
It’s in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we’re liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.