Resources

• Alternative treatment of anxiety, depression, and stress from the author of The Instinct to Heal: Curing Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Without Drugs and Without Talk Therapy  – The best book I’ve read on alternative treatments.
  www.instincttoheal.org
   
• Behavioral health care information, including extensive information on anti-depressant and anti-anxiety drugs, advocacy organizations, support organization, and psychology terminology.
  www.behavenet.com
   
• Community Resources Online for greater Seattle area - a wealth of resources regarding counseling, basic needs, legal information and more.
  www.cityofseattle.net/crisisclinic
   
  
• Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy –

o       www.interplayhorsemanship.com  This is Ginger Kennell’s website (Bellingham) – She fabulous with adults, children and teens! (You can see some pictures of me working with Ginger and her horses!) 

o       www.humanequinealliance.org  Leigh Shambo offers workshops and individual counseling in Chehalis.  Wonderful work!

• Focusing – This is a beautiful way to tune into your own wellspring of wisdom.
  www.focusingresources.com
   
  
• John and Julie Gottman’s Website: Nationally acclaimed, marriage, health, and relationship counseling, advice, quizzes, workshops, videos and books.
  www.gottman.com
   
  
• Guided Imagery and Visualization CDs, including a free 15 minute guided imagery to download.
  www.healthjourneys.com
   
  
• Happiness – how to cultivate it, understand it and get to know yourself.  Offers many questionnaires that are useful in assessing where you are in life; I especially encourage everyone to take the Signature Strengths Survey.  You have to sign in to this website but all your data is confidential and actually contributes to the research on happiness.
  www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu
   
  
• Lifespan Integration – a beautiful way to heal from both childhood trauma and neglect, as well as from the more minor traumas we all experience – based on the latest neurological research.
  www.lifespanintegration.com
   
• HeartMath: a way to cultivate connection to the heart and living a heart-centered life.  The website is a little, hmm, technical looking, but go the tab on the right hand side “Well-Being”.  This method is discussed quite beautifully in The Instinct to Heal (see above).
  www.heartmath.org
   
  
• Mental health, and chemical dependency sites
  www.counselingseattle.com/resources/start.htm
   
  
• Mindfulness Practice – latest research and meditations to download for free.  A fabulous resource.
  www.marc.ucla.edu
   
• Mindfulness Practice CDs by Jon Kabat Zinn – for both beginners and advanced, for purchase.  Jon Kabat Zinn’s books, Wherever You Go, There You Are and Full Catastrophe Living changed my life.
  www.mindfulnesstapes.com
   
  
• Therapy and support groups as well as workshops (greater Seattle).
  www.counselingseattle.com/groups.htm
  
  

• Favorite websites and people:
  http://simplifyingspacesnow.com/
  www.yogamovement.org

To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best,
night and day, to make you everybody else –
means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight,
and never stop fighting.
ee cummings