Los Angeles Area Mental Health Resources
If you have thoughts, a plan, or a timeline of ending your life, there is help. Call the National Suicide and Crisis Hotline 988.
Or call the Los Angeles County Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.
Other Crisis Support
Psychiatric Mobile Response Team (PMRT) 1-800-854-7771 24/7 mobile support for assessing intervention in family members or loved ones in Los Angeles County
Didi Hirsch Suicide Prevention 1-877-727-4747
Trevor Project 1-800-488-7386 24/7 LGBTQ youth suicide hotline
Cal Hope Warm Line 855-845-7415 24/7 non-crisis chats, offered in 50 languages and cultural groups
IPrevail Free chat and coaching programs for all in Los Angeles County
Los Angeles Area Free, Low Cost or Sliding Therapy
Miracle Mile Community Practice low fee narrative therapy
Airport Marina Counseling Services sliding scale therapy and psychiatry, West Los Angeles
Maple Center low fee therapy, groups and psychiatry, West Los Angeles
Southern California Counseling Center sliding scale therapy, groups and limited psychiatry, Mid-City
Valley Community Counseling affordable online therapy, San Fernando Valley
Rose City Counseling Center low cost psychoanalytic therapy, Pasadena
Wright Center group and individual therapy, West Los Angeles
Relational Center group and individual therapy, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Area LGBTQ+ Resources
LGBTQ Center specialized physical and mental health care and therapy groups
Bienestar LGBTQ+ and Latinx health care services and support groups
Los Angeles County 211 LGBTQ+ general resources page (food, shelter, health services, ect)
Recommended Therapeutic Reading
Andrew Solomon, Noonday Demon- a poetic account of depression
Andrew Weil, Breathing- simple therapeutic breath work techniques
Bell Hooks, The Will to Change- alternatives to traditional masculinity
Brene Brown, Rising Strong & Daring Greatly- on vulnerability and courage
Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism- about intentional use of our attention and time
Dan Harris, 10% Happier- about healing through meditation (check out the podcast, too)
Deb Dana, Befriending your Nervous System- on regulation and connection through the body
Edmund Bourne, The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook- cognitive therapy tools and worksheets
Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic- about creativity, fear and writer’s block
Alan Gordon, The Way Out- about neuroplastic pain and healing chronic pain
Gabor Mate, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts- Buddhist perspectives on addiction
Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands- explores how racism also lives in the body
Jack Kornfield, The Wise Heart- accessible teaching on classic mindfulness tools
Jackson MacKenzie, Whole Again- on healing from toxic and abusive relationships
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are- about cultivating meditation by the founder of MBSR
Marshall Rosenburg, Speaking Peace- tools on clear and free of conflict communication
Miriam Greenspan, Healing through the Dark Emotions- on what painful emotions have to teach us
Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart & Comfortable with Uncertainty- managing difficult emotions
Peter Levine, Freedom from Pain- practical guide to simple somatic and relaxation techniques
Russ Harris, The Happiness Trap- ACT skills to improve well-being and peacefulness
Jenny Odell, How to do Nothing- on creativity and resisting the attention economy
David Richo, How to be and Adult in Relationship- on aspects of mindful love
Sarah Schulman, The Ties that Bind- on the challenges of social and familiar homophobia for LBGTQ
Kristin Neff, Yin and Yang and Self Compassion- a short and sweet read on self compassion practices
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me- about the construction of race and family
Tricia Hersey, Rest Is Resistance- about how capitalism and white supremacy hijacks our rest and healing