Crisis lines, therapist directories, PMDD support, and practical tools for the hard days—and the rebuilding that follows.
Resources
Do You Need Help Right Now?
If you are in immediate danger, call 911
If you are in emotional crisis or thinking about suicide, call or text 988
Browse Support by Topic
These resources are organized by topic so you can find the kind of support that fits what you are facing. Every resource includes a direct phone number, text option, chat, website, or searchable directory.
For anyone experiencing domestic violence, emotional abuse, coercive control, financial abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, or trying to safely leave a relationship.
Call: 1-800-799-SAFE
Call: 1-800-799-7233
Text: START to 88788
Chat: Chat with a trained advocate online
Website: thehotline.org/get-help
RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline
For survivors of sexual assault, abuse, harassment, rape, incest, or anyone supporting someone who has experienced sexual violence.
Call: 800-656-HOPE
Call: 800-656-4673
Text: HOPE to 64673
Chat: Chat online with a trained support specialist
Website: rainn.org/help-and-healing/hotline
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
For suicidal thoughts, emotional distress, mental health crisis, substance-related crisis, or concern for someone else.
Call or Text: 988
Chat: Chat online with a trained crisis counselor
Website: 988lifeline.org
Chat Website: chat.988lifeline.org
Crisis Text Line
For anyone who feels overwhelmed, anxious, depressed, unsafe, panicked, or in emotional crisis and would rather text than talk.
Text: HOME to 741741
Text in Spanish: HOLA to 741741
Website: crisistextline.org
SAMHSA National Helpline
For mental health, drug use, alcohol use, treatment referrals, and recovery support.
Call: 1-800-662-HELP
Call: 1-800-662-4357
TTY: 1-800-487-4889
Website: samhsa.gov/find-help/helplines/national-helpline
FindTreatment.gov
For finding mental health and substance use treatment providers in the United States and U.S. territories.
Search Directory: findtreatment.gov
Treatment Locator: findtreatment.gov/locator
Alcoholics Anonymous
For people who want support around alcohol use or want to stop drinking.
Find A.A. Near You: aa.org/find-aa
Online Meetings: aa-intergroup.org
Narcotics Anonymous
For people seeking support around drug addiction and recovery.
Meeting Search: na.org/meetingsearch
Website: na.org
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SMART Recovery
For people looking for recovery support for alcohol, drugs, or other addictive behaviors, especially those who may prefer a non-12-step option.
Find a Meeting: smartrecovery.org/meeting
Website: smartrecovery.org
Finding the right therapist can take time, but these directories are a place to begin. You can search by location, specialty, insurance, online therapy, trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, women’s mental health, and more.
Psychology Today Therapist Directory
For finding therapists, psychiatrists, treatment centers, and support groups by location, specialty, insurance, and online availability.
Directory: psychologytoday.com/us/therapists
Website: psychologytoday.com
Good for: general therapy search, trauma therapists, grief therapists, anxiety, depression, family therapy, women’s issues, EMDR, and local or online providers.
Open Path Psychotherapy Collective
For people looking for lower-cost therapy options.
Directory: openpathcollective.org
Website: openpathcollective.org
Good for: affordable therapy, uninsured people, underinsured people, or anyone who cannot afford standard private-pay therapy.
FindTreatment.gov
For finding mental health and substance use treatment providers in the U.S. and U.S. territories.
Directory: findtreatment.gov
Treatment Locator: findtreatment.gov/locator
Good for: mental health treatment, substance use treatment, detox, outpatient programs, residential programs, and local treatment providers.
Women’s mental health can be affected by life transitions, grief, hormones, relationships, motherhood, trauma, stress, anxiety, depression, and the pressure to keep functioning when everything feels heavy. These resources are a starting place for support and information.
Office on Women’s Health
For women’s mental health information, education, and federal health resources.
Website: womenshealth.gov/mental-health
Mental Health Resources: womenshealth.gov/mental-health/mental-health-resources
Good for: general women’s mental health, anxiety, depression, stress, body image, relationships, trauma, and reproductive health-related mental health.
Mental Health America — Women’s Mental Health
For education and support around women’s mental health.
Website: mhanational.org/women
Good for: mental health education, screening tools, stress, depression, anxiety, life transitions, and learning when to seek help.
Postpartum Support International
For pregnancy, postpartum, fertility, pregnancy loss, birth trauma, and motherhood-related mental health support.
Helpline: 1-800-944-4773
Text: HELP to 800-944-4773
Provider Directory: postpartum.net/get-help/provider-directory
Website: postpartum.net
Good for: postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, pregnancy loss, fertility struggles, birth trauma, motherhood identity shifts, and perinatal mood disorders.
Hormone-related mood changes are real. PMDD, PME, perimenopause, postpartum mood changes, and hormone shifts can deeply affect mental health, relationships, work, sleep, and daily life. These resources can help you learn more and find support.
IAPMD — International Association for Premenstrual Disorders
For PMDD, PME, severe PMS, cycle-related mood symptoms, education, tools, and peer support.
Website: iapmd.org
Peer Support: iapmd.org/support
Good for: PMDD, PME, cycle-related depression/anxiety, tracking symptoms, learning treatment options, and connecting with people who understand.
Office on Women’s Health
For broader women’s health, hormone-related health education, perimenopause, menopause, and mental health information.
Website: womenshealth.gov
Mental Health Resources: womenshealth.gov/mental-health/mental-health-resources
Good for: general women’s health, hormone changes, perimenopause, menopause, reproductive health, and mental health education.
Postpartum Support International
For hormone-related mood support connected to pregnancy, postpartum, pregnancy loss, infertility, and birth trauma.
Helpline: 1-800-944-4773
Text: HELP to 800-944-4773
Provider Directory: postpartum.net/get-help/provider-directory
Website: postpartum.net
Good for: postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, birth trauma, fertility grief, pregnancy loss, and perinatal hormone-related mood changes.
Trauma can come from abuse, loss, violence, medical events, relationships, grief, childhood experiences, or moments when life changed suddenly. Healing is not about being “fixed.” It is about being supported, safe, and not alone.
National Center for PTSD
For PTSD education, treatment options, coping tools, and trauma recovery information.
Website: ptsd.va.gov
Good for: PTSD education, trauma symptoms, treatment options, coping tools, and understanding trauma responses.
RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline
For sexual assault, abuse, harassment, rape, incest, or trauma connected to sexual violence.
Call: 800-656-HOPE
Call: 800-656-4673
Text: HOPE to 64673
Chat: rainn.org/help-and-healing/hotline
Website: rainn.org
Good for: sexual assault trauma, abuse recovery, crisis support, and support for loved ones.
Psychology Today Trauma Therapist Search
For finding therapists who specialize in trauma, PTSD, EMDR, abuse recovery, grief, and related issues.
Directory: psychologytoday.com/us/therapists
Website: psychologytoday.com
Good for: finding a trauma-informed therapist, EMDR therapist, grief therapist, PTSD therapist, or abuse recovery support.
Sometimes outpatient care is not enough—and needing a higher level of support does not mean you have failed.
Use FindTreatment.gov, SAMHSA’s confidential treatment locator, to search by location, type of care, mental-health concern, and payment or insurance options.
You can also:
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Call the behavioral-health number on your insurance card and ask for help locating residential or inpatient treatment.
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Call or text 988 for crisis support and help identifying appropriate local resources.
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If you may hurt yourself or someone else, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department.
Before selecting a facility, ask about licensing, clinical specialties, psychiatric and medical support, treatment methods, insurance coverage, total costs, family involvement, and aftercare planning.
Please link FindTreatment.gov to:
Needing support does not mean you are broken. It means you are human.