• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

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• Federal agency that leads public health efforts to advance behavioral health.

• Offers an online treatment locator.

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• Alcoholics Anonymous (12-step support group)

• Narcotics Anonymous (12-step support group)

• SMART Recovery (research and skills-based addiction support group)

• Alanon (Support for families affected by addiction)

• 12 Step Resources and Directory/12step.org: Website that strives to provide information, tools and resources for working a 12 Step program (or any program using 12 step principles for recovery) in as simple and effective way as possible.

• LIST of  other 12 Step Recovery Programs for All Addictions

• Find a Local Detox/San Diego

• Find a local Detox/North County San Diego 

• QTBIPOC Addiction and Mental Health Support

• Find Rehab Centers

• List and resources for Non-12 Step Recovery

• National Human Trafficking Hotline

• Elizabeth Hospice (Grief support): 1-800-797-2050  

• Trevor Project (for LGBTQ youth): 1-866-488-7386

• NAMI (support for people and families affected by mental illness)

• PTSD Self-Help (from the VA)

• An incredible RESOURCE page with national and global resources and websites, including support groups: The Stability Network

• Mental Health Resources for All: Live Another Day is a website where dedicated staff and peers in recovery curate lists of the best mental health resources for the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous & People of Color) community.  Importance is also placed on reducing preventable deaths, addressing overdose and suicide prevention – two of the leading causes of preventable deaths.

• Pronouns.Org:  Website educating the public on why/how pronouns matter. Also provides helpful resources on their resource page.  Click Here for resource Page. 

• Click here for main Page.  

• ADDitude Magazine: For all things ADHD. Research, News, Blogs, Webinars, Podcasts, Book recommendations, etc. 

• ADHD and Trauma: Overlapping Symptoms and treatment recommendations

Developmental trauma includes chronic emotional neglect, and deficiencies in nurturance, protection, and guidance from caregivers.  As a result of this neglect, healthy relationships are not modeled and limits are not set.  In response to this, individuals develop defense mechanisms that are catastrophic to relationships.  These resources are for individuals who identify as having unhealthy relationships.  

BPD Family: Facing Emotionally Intense Relationships: Offers helpful tools, blogs, and book recommendations

• Freedom Forever: Freedom Forever is an American non-profit organization dedicated to protecting children from abuse, trafficking and exploitation in ALL FORMS.

• Gays Against Groomers:  A nonprofit organization of gays against the sexualization, indoctrination and medicalization of children under the guise of LGBTQIA+

• Human Trafficking Hotline:  1-888-373-7888TTY: 711Text* 233733

• Kaleigh's Law:  Together, with her local legislators, Kayleigh worked to draft a bill and create a new law, providing victims and survivors of sexual and domestic abuse continued protection that would last their lifetime, regardless of the terms of their abuser’s probation status. In April of 2021, Governor Ducey signed SB1412, thus making Arizona the first state in the nation to offer protection that is valid for an actual lifetime to victims and survivors of sexual and domestic abuse. In June of 2021, the Arizona State Senate Proclaimed SB1412 as "Kayleigh’s Law". 

• Mom Army Battalion 

• The Love Storm:  Is a global initiative raising awareness of human trafficking in an educational and empowering way. By hosting mass meditations in numerous countries around the world, The Love Storm aims to lead the conversation that we must fight slavery from the inside out.  Each city is represented for the work being accomplished locally while we also educate on our imperative need to unite in order to end the global epidemic that is the modern-day slave trade.

• Vets 4 Child Rescue:  Veterans For Child Rescue (V4CR) is a 5O1C3 nonprofit organization that was founded in April of 2017. Our team is comprised of military professionals, former and current law enforcement, senior intelligence community veterans, child abuse and trafficking survivors, and people who are willing to do whatever it takes to end child trafficking in the USA.

• Therapist and author Pete Walker has written extensively about complex PTSD, which is also referred to as developmental trauma. Walker's website offers several tools to manage the impact of CPTSD on relationships, daily living, self-care, work, etc. 

• Shrinking the inner Critic

• Managing Emotional Flashbacks

• ISSTD: International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation Public Resource Page

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National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 

Center for Community Solutions (Domestic Violence Hotline and services based in San Diego/Escondido): 1-888-385-4657 

Women's Law. Org: Safety Tips and Planning

Men Can Be Victims of Abuse Too

Resources for Male Survivors

San Diego County District Attorney on Intimate Partner Violence and Other Resource Guides

Safety Planning for You and Your Children 

Safety Planning and California Courts

Personalized Safety Plan

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Treatment Specialist:  Zacch McKinney, serving Southern California, Inland Empire, through Acadia Healthcare.   

Phone: (951) 452-1056

zacchery.mckinney@acadiahealthcare.com

https://www.acadiahealthcare.com/programs

E-Fax: (951) 795-4011

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A Mission For Michael, offering IOP and Residential Treatment.  Per website: " A Mission for Michael is the premiere resource for intensive mental health treatment serving adult men and women in California, Virginia, and Washington State. Our clients receive personalized care twenty-four hours a day, overseen by our psychiatry team and doctorate or master’s-level clinicians. We maintain a small number of clients in each of our homes to provide an intimate treatment environment. This allows us to service a wide range of clinical concerns and still provide a very individualized treatment experience. Our treatment offerings change lives through our focus on evidence-based clinical treatment and compassionate care."

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Aurora Behavioral Health Care, San Diego California. Offering IOP and PHP, including dual diagnosis.

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Awakenings Treatment Center, Total Recovery for Body, Mind, and Spirit:  

855-71-RECOVER
(844-427-4902)

28632 Roadside Dr. Suite 210
Agoura Hills, CA 91301

Crownview Co-Occurring Institute, Oceanside California

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Bold Health Intensive IOP: learn More here

Bold Health contact info:  561 Saxony Place, Suite 101, Encinitas, CA 92024; Office: 760-503-4703

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Lightfully Behavioral Health offering IOP and PHP throughout southern California, including San Diego and Los Angeles. Learn more HERE.  See this PDF for list of services.

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Montecatini Eating Disorder Treatment Center offering IOP and PHP

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Reconnect Integrative Trauma Treatment Center, offering IOP.  Pacific Palisades, California. 

Per website, "At Reconnect, we treat mental health disorders and trauma with warmth and compassion. Part of what makes us different is our highly individualized attention and our focus on trauma. Here, we address the root causes of conditions rather than simply treating symptoms. We believe that is the key to transformational mental health treatment and lasting change."

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Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital and Sharp Grossmont Hospital, offering inpatient and crisis stabilization.

For more information about our inpatient programs, call Sharp Grossmont at 619-740-4800 or Sharp Mesa Vista at 858-836-8434. 

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The Mental Health Collective at Newport Beach: Learn more about conditions that are treated here.

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Trauma and Beyond: offering Intensive Outpatient, and Partial Hospitalization.  Learn more here.

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Wings Recovery offers IOP and PHP programs for men and women that are specific to trauma. Located in San Diego California. 

Wings Recovery for MEN

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• San Diego Access/Crisis Hotline  (For mental health emergencies, suicide prevention and referrals to treatment): 1-888-724-7240

• National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: Call or Text 988

• It's Up To Us Resource Page for everything Mental Health 

• Sounds True

• Self Compassion with Kristin Neff

• International OCD Foundation Resources

• Complete Guide to OCD with author and therapist Kiberly Quinlan, LMFT

• Resources for OCD at Restored Minds with Matthew Codde, LMFT

Post Partum Support International

Post Partum Progress

Brain Excel:  Located in Solana Beach, CA.  

Email: info@brainexcelsd.com

phone: (760) 542-8319

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Kaizen Brain Center:   For a more Biomedical interdisciplinary approach.  Services include Ketamine assisted therapy, TMS, neurofeedback 

We are a collaborative, interdisciplinary, neuroscience-based, data-driven brain center focused on making a positive impact in the lives of our patients through our vision and innovative approach to improving brain health.

Kaizen Brain Center was established to help patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion who weren’t receiving proper medical care and were at risk of developing progressive neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or Parkinson’s disease. Over the years, we’ve grown and now treat many more brain-related neurological and psychological conditions.

San Marcos, CA and La Jolla CA Locations

4180 La Jolla Village Dr, Suite 240
La Jolla CA 92037

Phone 866-277-2659
Fax 858-779-2511
Open Monday – Friday 9am-5pm

(By Appointment Only)
838 Nordahl Rd, Suite 200
San Marcos, CA 92069

Shelly Robinson:  a holistic family wellness coach + workshop facilitator + conscious parenting advocate whose mission is to teach busy, midlife moms how to kick negative parenting patterns to the curb by teaching them the art and science of creating new habits; how to build conscious connection with their children; and most importantly, how to take radically good care of themselves. 

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Raising Strong Kids Through Divorce

50% of all North-American kids will witness the divorce of their parents and almost half of them will also see the breakup of the parents second marriage.

Divorce is not just hard on the mom's and dad's, it is also devastating for the kids. Raising Strong Kids Through Divorce is a resource for both parents and kids to help and empower them so that divorce doesn't define who they are as a family. 

• Bill Eddy, a lawyer, therapist, and mediator is the co-founder and Training Director of the High Conflict Institute in San Diego, California. 

• Randi Kreger, author of Stop Walking on Eggshells shares: Bill Eddy is someone who "cares deeply about adults and children embroiled in High Conflict issues."

• Protect your child from a Narcissistic Parent. Click here for link

• Divorce Workshop in San Diego, CA

https://gottmanconnect.com/ (relationship quiz and resources for couples)

The Gottman Relationship Blog: https://www.gottman.com/blog/

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Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families World Service Organization (ACA):  

" We meet  to share our experience of growing up in an environment where abuse, neglect and trauma infected us. This affects us today and influences how we deal with all aspects of our lives."

[ACA provides a safe, nonjudgmental environment that allows us to grieve our childhoods and conduct an honest inventory of ourselves and our family—so we may (i) identify and heal core trauma, (ii) experience freedom from shame and abandonment, and (iii) become our own loving parents.]

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Codependents Anonymous (CODA): The only requirement for membership is a desire for healthy & loving relationships.

• Learn What Boundaries are and how to set them from best-selling author and therpist Anne Katherine, M.A.  

• Learn about codependency from Author of Codependency No More, Melody Beattie.  Codependency does not just apply to families with drug and alcohol addictions, but also applies to families with poor boundaries and any form of abuse.​

Psychotherapist and author of her own memoir on sex and love addiction, Staci Sprout is also a certified sex Therapist. Website is full of important and need to know information

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Intimacy Skills Bootcamp for Women, with Author of Naked in Public

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Male Partners of Female Sex Addicts Website and resource page

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More resources on Sex and Love addiction from Dan Drake, Co-Author of “Letters from a Sex Addict”

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Wendy Conquest, co-author of Letters from a Sex Addict, provides a list of questions that helps you determine
if you are suffering from love addiction

Dr. Emily Nagoski, author of Come as You Are offers great resources, including worksheets on her website: https://www.emilynagoski.com/