Client Resources

National Resources

• Call 911 if the crisis is a life-threatening emergency. 

  • Notify the operator of a psychiatric emergency and ask for an officer trained in crisis intervention or in assisting people during a psychiatric emergency.

  • If you live in the state of Georgia, call the Georgia Crisis and Access Line (GCAL) at 1-800-715-4225 to get support and access services.

• Text NAMI HOME to 741-741 to receive support from a trained crisis counselor via text message

  • Call 800-273-TALK (8255) for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

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

• National Eating Disorders Association to offer support in need

• Call 1-866-488-7386 for the Trevor Project for LGBTQ+ Specific suicide support

• Call 800-799-SAFE (7233) for the National Domestic Violence Hotline 

• RAINN (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network)

  • Call 800-656-HOPE (4673) for the National Sexual Assault Hotline

  • Crisis chat support available: Online Hotline

• Call The Cottage Sexual Assault and Children’s Advocacy Center in Athens, GA at 706-353-1912 or 877-363-1912

• If you are a UGA student, call 706-542-SAFE (7233) or 706-542-8690 to reach the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (RSVP)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:

    • UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center - Guided Mediations

    • 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