Client Resources

National Resources

• Call 911 if the crisis is a life-threatening emergency. Make sure to notify the operator that it is a psychiatric emergency and ask for an officer trained in crisis intervention or trained to assist people experiencing a psychiatric emergency.

• Georgia Crisis and Access Line - Call to connect with a trained crisis counselor to receive support and help accessing services.

• Crisis Text Line – Text NAMI to 741-741 to connect with a trained crisis counselor to receive crisis support via text message.

• LGBTQ+ Specific- The Trevor Project- If you are thinking about suicide and in need of immediate support, please call the TrevorLifeline at 1-866-488-7386.

• National Domestic Violence Hotline – Call 800-799-SAFE (7233) to speak with trained experts who provide confidential support to anyone experiencing domestic violence or seeking resources and information.

• National Sexual Assault Hotline – Call 800-656-HOPE (4673) to connect with a trained staff member from a sexual assault service provider in your area that offers access to a range of free services. Crisis chat support is also available at Online Hotline.

  • Additional Sexual Assault Resources:

    • RAINN (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network)

    • In Athens, call The Cottage (sexual assault and children’s advocacy center): (706) 353-1912 or (877) 363-1912

    • If you are a student at UGA, call: 706-542-SAFE (7233) or 706-542-8690

• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline – Call 800-273-TALK (8255) to speak with a trained crisis counselor.

• Suicide Prevention Resource Center- Visit the website to find resources on suicide prevention to help yourself or someone you care about.

Additional Getting Real Resource Center Resources

•  Stress management and Meditation:

  • Techniques:

    • The Feminist Survival Project podcast, especially the first three episodes:

      • Separate the stress from the stressor

      • 12 empirically validated ways to complete the stress cycle

      • The Human Giver Syndrome

  • Stress management/ meditation sites:

    • University of Texas Austin- Counseling & Mental Health Center - Virtual Mindfulness and Stress Reduction Activities

    • UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center - Guided Mediations

    • The Mindfulness Solution

    • Theater Seat Store which offers tips on how to meditate and positive affirmations

    • Fragrant Heart - Heart Centered Meditations offer free audio meditations with and without music

• Brene Brown resources:

  • TED talks:

    • The power of vulnerability

    • Listening to shame

    • Anatomy of trust

  • Books:

    • Gifts of Imperfection: Let go of who you think you are supposed to be and embrace who you are

    • Daring Greatly: How the courage to be vulnerable transforms the way we live, love, parent and lead

    • Rising Strong: The reckoning, the rumble, the revolution

    • Braving the Wilderness: The quest for true belonging and the courage to stand alone

    • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

    • I thought it was just me (but it isn't): Making the journey from "What will people think?" to "I am enough"

Additional service related resources: Eating Disorders & Body Image, LGBTQ+, Relationships, Self-Injury, Trauma

For more information about individual or relational counseling, please call: 

706-389-8161