Fresh Hope for Mental Health - Support groups for mental health issues, offered in-person and online. 

Hope for Mental Health Community - A monthly upstream effort at Saddleback Church to address the need for social connection, meaningful interactions, and psychoeducation for people living with mental illness and their families. 4pm ET, fourth Sunday of the month.

Living Grace @ NCC - This group uses the Living Grace workbook by the Mental Health Grace Alliance to discuss, discover, and develop practical steps to cultivate a healthy mind and heart and encourage one another’s mental health journeys.

Mental Health Grace Alliance -- Online and regionally available in-person support groups for mental health issues.

Reboot Recovery: Crisis Edition - 5-part video series intended to help you understand, cope with, and move forward from the current COVID-19 crisis or whatever trauma you may be facing.

The Sanctuary Course from Sanctuary Mental Health Ministries - This course was created to raise awareness and start conversations about mental health in the Church. The course combines clinical research, theological practice, and lived experience. The following eight sessions will help you reframe your views of mental health through psychological, social, and theological perspectives.

Tools for Living in Crisis: Weekly Solutions and Q&A with Dr. John Townsend - Wednesdays at 4:30pm Eastern on Facebook Live

For prayer ministry appointments, pastoral care appointments, and counseling recommendations, visit ncc.re/support. 

Local Christian Counseling Networks:

• CentrePointe Counseling
• Life Christian Counseling Network
• Safe Harbor Christian Counseling
• New Life Christian Counseling Network (Nationwide)

For individually vetted counselors, use ncc.re/support.

Questions?  Check out our Therapy FAQs.

Videos

Dealing with Special Occasion Losses in a Crisis (11 min) - Dr. John Townsend

Hope for Mental Health Community with Dr. Bruce Perry (1 hr) - Kay Warren, Saddleback Church

How to Thrive Coming Out of the COVID-19 Crisis: Therapy 101 and Next Steps (15 min) - Rebecca Tolbert

Mental Illness in the Bible (6 mins) Rev. Talitha Arnold, Senior Minister, The United Church of Santa Fe (United Church of Christ)

Thrive Webinar: Practical Ways to Manage Stressors (34 mins) - Casey Pruet and Natalie Franks, Mental Health Grace Alliance

Thrive Webinar: Refreshing and Renewing Our Minds (28 mins) - Joe Padilla, Mental Health Grace Alliance

Tools for Living in Crisis: "Doing Life Right" During Difficult Seasons (40 mins) - Dr. John Townsend

Tools for Living in Crisis: Emotional Regulation (26 mins) - Dr. John Townsend

Tools for Living in Crisis: Vulnerability: Key for Stress Reduction (30 mins) - Dr. John Townsend

When Quoting Scripture is not Enough: A Message to the Church (5 mins) Sheila Walsh, Bestselling Author and Speaker

Podcasts

Being Psychologically Healthy During Times of Crisis - Boundaries.Me by Dr. Henry Cloud

What We All Need to Know About Depression with Zac Allen - Made for This with Jennie Allen

Articles 

Caring for Self and Others in Times of Trouble: Some Spiritual Tools and Tips - Harvard Divinity School

Getting Involved with Minority Mental Health - NAMI

Living With A Mental Health Condition, disclosing to others, finding a mental health professional, medications, romantic relationships, self-care, daily functionality - NAMI

Love and Lament in March Madness - Curt Thompson

Moving Beyond the Shame Fog - NAMI

Prayers For This Season by Leslie Roberts, Sanctuary Mental Health Ministries

Supporting your Mental Health While Navigating Change - American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Taking Care of Your Mental Health in the Face of Uncertainty - American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

The Stages of My Mental Illness - NAMI

Thoughts on Mental Illness and Violence - Amy Simpson

E-Booklets, Worksheets, Checklists, and Other Online Tools

The Anxious Thought Guide by Jennie Allen - A low-grade anxiety has held all of us captive for way too long. Let’s fight back. Download this tool - I hope it’s really helpful to capture our thoughts and let them not spiral out of control. We do control our thoughts. They do not control us.

Sources of Strength COVID-19 Daily Activity Checklist

Sources of Strength Wellness Plan for COVID-19 

THRIVE Free E-Booklet Download from Mental Health Grace Alliance -  We selected three helpful topics from our Thrive workbook to help with life structure & routine, work down those negative fears, and stress management tools! 

Vibrant Emotional Health’s Safe Space provides interactive coping tools online.

Books

Anxious: Choosing Faith in a World of Worry by Amy Simpson

Darkness Is My Only Companion: A Christian Response to Mental Illness by Kathryn Greene-McCreight

Delight in Disorder: Ministry, Madness, Mission by Tony Roberts

Grace for the Afflicted: A Clinical and Biblical Perspective on Mental Illness by Matthew S. Stanford

On Edge: Mental Illness in the Christian Context by Kristen Kansiewicz

The Recovery-Minded Church: Loving and Ministering to People with Addiction by Jonathan Benz

Troubled Minds: Mental Illness and the Church’s Mission by Amy Simpson

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Fresh Hope for Mental Health

Mental Health Grace Alliance

National Institute of Mental Health

Pathways to Promise

Sanctuary Mental Health Ministries

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Helpline - 1-800-662-HELP (4357)

NAMI Helpline - 1-800-950-NAMI (6264)