Counselling, Psychotherapy and Mental Health Resources on the Web, Page 4

This mixed list includes just a few of the myriad counselling and psychotherapy resources available online which may be useful to clients, practitioners or researchers. Unlike some large directories that use automated systems to enable webmasters to submit their sites — which we’re then told will be ‘professionally reviewed’ (uh huh) — every site in our list has been personally visited and evaluated. What you read about a site is not what the site owner submitted on a form or a reciprocal link request: it’s my own personal assessment of the site.

Specific Occupations Support

Farming

• Farm Crisis Network – Helps families in farming and related activities.
• Royal Agricultural Benevolent Insitution – Supporting farming families in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
• Rural Stress Information Network – Umbrella charity working with local English and Welsh support organizations.
• Wales Rural Stress Helpline – Provides free telephone support.

Military

• Women Organizing Women – Help for women who were sexually assaulted while serving in the military. (Also see the separate section on Abuse, Rape and Incest.)

Veterinary Medicine

• Vetlife – This is a great first stop for information and mental health resources for veterinary surgeons.
• Helpline numbers:
  • Veterinary Helpline – UK number (+44) (0)7659 811118.
  • Vets Helping Vets – Specifically addresses addictions; UK number (+44) (0)1926 315119.

Support Groups

• Intelihealth Communities – If you don’t mind lots of commercial advertising and a server which in my experience is quite slow, this site provides a good collection of boards.
• Recovery, Inc. – This nonprofit self-help organization was founded in 1937 by the late Dr. Abraham A. Low, a Chicago psychiatrist whose ideas were later linked to cognitive behavioural approaches.

Therapeutic Approaches & Related

Please see the section on Types of Counselling for more information about specific therapeutic approaches.

Focusing

• Focusing Institute – Very rich source of information on focusing.
• Focusing Resources – Excellent site from a leading student of Gendlin’s.
• Japan Focusing Association – Non-Japanese don’t worry: it’s in English.

Person-Centred

• Allan Turner’s Person Centred Web Site – Individual practitioner’s site with other links, a few papers and an interesting Q&A for students.
• Association for the Development of the Person Centered Approach – International, interdisciplinary network promoting person-centred thought.
• Center for the Studies of the Person – Based in La Jolla, Carl Rogers’s former haunt.
• Network of the European Associations for Person-Centred and and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counselling – Even more remarkably long-winded European portion of the World Association…
• Person-Centered Expressive Therapy Institute – Training institute founded by Carl Rogers’s daughter, Natalie Rogers.
• Peter F. Schmid Person-Centred Website – Individual site of a leading person-centred figure in Austria; wild (and multi-lingual) page design but useful content.
• World Association for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling – Organization publishes a journal and runs an international conference.

Philosophical Counselling

• The Philosophical Counseling Website – Shlomit Schuster’s pages on philosophical counselling.

Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy

• How To Be Happy – Although this page is a subsection of a rather politically-charged site, the explanation of rational emotive behaviour therapy is clear and concise.

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Therapist Directories

Directories of therapists abound, with wildly varying quality and coverage. This section provides just a few links to directories.

• APA Psychologist Locator – Provided by the American Psychological Association, this directory lists only practitioners who are licensed psychologists.
• British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy – Run by one of the main professional counselling organizations in the UK, this directory also acts as a marketing tool to promote the BACP’s accreditation scheme. (See volumes such as “Hubble, Duncan and Miller on What Works in Therapy” or Bergin and Garfield 1994 for research evidence on counselling effectiveness that fails to support any link between accreditation and actual therapeutic effectiveness.) Therapists pay a fee to list their own descriptions of their services.
• CBT Therapist – With listings restricted solely to CBT practitioners accredited by the UK’s primary organisations for the profession (the BABCP and AREBT), CBTtherapist.com is the leading independent directory for finding accredited CBT therapists in the UK.
• Marriage & Family Counselor Directory – Although its covergae is still a bit spotty, this directory deserves a look if you’re specifically seeking therapists in its focus area.
• Psych Tap – One of the most comprehensive psychologist directories anywhere, Psych Tap includes over 10,000 psychologists across every state of the US, plus territories and several Canadian provinces.
• Right Counsellor – This new Australian directory lists around 600 counsellors.
• Right Therapist – With extensive coverage of the UK, the leading independent counselling directory RightTherapist.com lists UK counsellors and therapists, UK clinical supervisors, and UK trainers in counselling and psychotherapy.
• Supervision Resource – This supervision-focused namesake of CounsellingResource.com provides a somewhat simpler way of navigating through the selection of counselling supervisors listed with its information provider Right Therapist.

Therapists With Online Practices

Much like therapist directories, online therapy practices abound — with wildly variable cost and quality. The explosion of would-be online practitioners (vast numbers of whom have little or no experience actually providing genuine online therapy) makes it difficult to offer any meaningful listing of the possibilities here. Indeed, it would probably be dangerous and irresponsible to do so without committing to nearly full-time monitoring of the latest changes being made to such sites. Please see our page “Talk to a Counselor or Therapist Online via Chat or Email” for our current recommendations on large and respected third party commercial sites.

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